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Post by Neil Lambess on Oct 17, 2021 1:27:36 GMT
In the 70s and 80s several newspapers carried news items that the BBC had a standby cache of specially recorded material to play in the likely event of all out Nuclear war ...this material apparently included specially recorded speeches by the Queen ,some Morecombe and Wise, saftey tips ! Presented by well know actors and comedians . (From memory the 80s newspaper reports were to the effect that some of the content had been updated ) I vaguely recall Kenny Everett may had shot some material for this .
So the obvious question is ....does this still exist somewhere in the archive's and if so it could be well overdue for a dvd release (rights permitting) or at least an article about such a insanely odd idea
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Post by Richard Marple on Oct 17, 2021 11:32:42 GMT
These would be interesting to see, as the Protect & Survive PIFs are available, & The Day Today showed a spoof of something I imagine exists.
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Post by stephenconnett on Nov 3, 2021 9:45:04 GMT
These would be interesting to see, as the Protect & Survive PIFs are available, & The Day Today showed a spoof of something I imagine exists. Patrick Allen's V/o ended up re recorded for Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Two Tribes song and video. Suspect these sort of things or similar national emergency productions are regularly updated in some form |
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Post by Kev Hunter on Nov 4, 2021 15:30:02 GMT
What a strange concept - TV programming scheduling in case the four-minute warning goes off. I think I'd be far too preoccupied with panicking and hyperventilating than channel hopping for something to watch during my dying seconds! US writer Dave Barry once alluded to American radio stations having plans to saturate the airwaves with loops of Kenny G music in the event of nuclear war, and like him, I think the prospect of radiation poisoning would be far preferable to having to listen to Kenny's syrupy saxophone.
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Post by fredjones1 on Nov 18, 2021 22:27:13 GMT
Indeed. There is that and the fact that people might have difficulty powering a TV.
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Post by Ken Jacowitz on Nov 22, 2021 14:36:11 GMT
Ted Turner’s Turner Network Television (TNT) in America back in the 1980s recorded the last thing they would air in case…the end was nigh and they were going off air forever. youtu.be/_Ba4V4Vh568BTW, WWII when BBC TV was ordered off air, the story goes they cut the feed mid-Mickey Mouse cartoon. After WWII 2 when the BBC resumed airing, they started by picking up that Mickey Mouse cartoon from when it had been interrupted years before. |
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Post by John Wall on Nov 22, 2021 16:18:14 GMT
Ted Turner’s Turner Network Television (TNT) in America back in the 1980s recorded the last thing they would air in case…the end was nigh and they were going off air forever. youtu.be/_Ba4V4Vh568BTW, WWII when BBC TV was ordered off air, the story goes they cut the feed mid-Mickey Mouse cartoon. After WWII 2 when the BBC resumed airing, they started by picking up that Mickey Mouse cartoon from when it had been interrupted years before. I hope that’s true - it’s a great story 👍 |
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