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Post by Richard Marple on Mar 16, 2012 22:34:52 GMT
David Mellor sounds right, though I was thinking that Jack Straw was once on UC.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Nov 8, 2012 14:01:51 GMT
Sorry for ressurrecting an old thread for my first (and probably only) post, but as I was in the audience for this episode, and saw some of the build up, I'm pretty sure the account given in the book is wrong. I can't remember who was on the team apart from the Times columnist David Aaronovitch (who uses a photo of the team as his Twitter avatar), but they certainly had not 'dropped out' of the university, though it may well be that some or all of them were sabbatical officers at the student union for that year. My recollection is that the union voted for the members of the team, and that there was a confused mixture of motives for the protest: part anarchist, part Trotskyite 'permanent revolution', and a much larger but mostly ineffective desire to use the programme as a platform to protest against apartheid, which was the hot campus topic at the time. The team might well have been "under the influence" but it certainly planned to do what it did. The packing of the audience was absolutely right, though. The tickets the Beeb sent were just photocopied for anyone who wanted to come... You mean GRANADA not the Beeb. It was an ITV show in 1975.
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Post by stephenbray on Nov 8, 2012 15:59:30 GMT
Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing!
Similarly, I was one of the extras involved in the 're-filming' of this sequence for the documentary made in, ooh, 2002 I think. I got to say "Trotsky" a few times. And wear some very cool clothes.
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Post by markboulton on Nov 12, 2012 20:37:51 GMT
It surprises me to hear that this may not exist. I thought Granada programmes usually had an excellent survival rate..? Anglia programmes have an excellent Survival rate, Rob! ;D
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