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The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
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John Bach Alexander Graham Bell
Ian Bannen Melville
Brenda Fricker Eliza
Jim McLarty Sumner Tainter
Vanessa Vaughan 
Clare Kelso Susanna Hall
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