Arts and Culture

On This Day – 6 April

Posted on: Thu 6 Apr 2017

Jennie Lenman and Breakfast producer Tom Jordan discuss major events on this day in history, including an end to Russia’s Beard Tax, and “Louie Louie”‘s brief investigation by the FBI!

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