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Post by William Martin on Nov 13, 2007 18:26:52 GMT
there was a radio comedy show from 1944 that was interupted by a V-1 Doodlebug hitting the building next door, what was the show and does a recording exist?
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Post by Adrian Gregg on Nov 14, 2007 0:02:24 GMT
If such a show was recorded (I can't see it done myself, and have never heard it.. and ive heard all the existing variety from that period) we would have heard it in a million WW2 Doco's
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Post by Andy Howells on Nov 14, 2007 1:15:36 GMT
Try Radio Fun - The History of Radio Comedy - episode 04
World War II has started and anything and everything to do with 'radio fun' has moved to the supposed safety of Bristol.
I heard this on BBC7 a while back and Russell Davies (the presenter) featured a clip in which a bomb is heard going off behind a music hall act, if memory serves me right it was in Aberystwyth and the driver of the BBC Sound recording van got killed in the blast.
I'd have to dig the tape out to check but I'm sure I recorded it.
Maybe some1 else can verify?
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Post by Adrian Gregg on Nov 14, 2007 1:43:29 GMT
I though that exerpt was kinda "played up" for the radio run doco.. but then its been years since i heard it
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Post by Dan S on Nov 16, 2007 1:09:20 GMT
I've heard one or two reconstructions of an event such as this. One is on a cd called "75 years of the BBC". There is a genuine one though. This is an occasion where a bomb disrupts the broadcast, unfortunately I've never heard it. catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/SX+28169_3 |
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Post by William Martin on Nov 19, 2007 15:23:11 GMT
Would the ones I've heard be reconstructions then? ie on recent documentaries.
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Post by Dan S on Nov 22, 2007 3:25:31 GMT
The reconstruction on the cd is labelled as "Broadcasting House bomb (reconstruction) Bruce Belfrage 15 October 1940". I think I've heard another one in a documentary (announced as a reconstruction).
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Post by William Martin on Nov 23, 2007 10:35:58 GMT
ok, that was a news broadcast then?
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