Multiple other positive narratives are needed as only a full chorus of future-looking public commitments can supersede a story that may unfortunately have such an idiosyncratically extended half-life.

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The Life Story of David Lloyd George - a two-and-a-half hour epic about the UK's leader during World War I - had been presumed lost after it disappeared in 1918.

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