 Similar postures were taught to the Women's League of Health and Beauty in Britain by Mary Bagot Stack in the period between the world wars with the "Bagot Stack Stretch-and-Swing System".Stack had travelled to India, and had learnt some yoga poses there.The BBC broadcast the first yoga television programlyn mames in 1948 and 1949 to a small audience, presented by the ex-MI6 agent Sir Paul Dukes, who had an interest in spirituality; he had visited Pierre Bernard's Country Club in Nyack, New York which taught hatha yoga.