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Post by Ash Stewart on Jan 12, 2009 20:52:04 GMT
This may be a little bit of a long shot, but I'm looking to find out if an edition of Swap Sop (or maybe very early Saturday Superstore) exists;
It was shown 80-82, and one of pieces in it was on competition winners being shown around the offices/presses etc of the Reading Chronicle.
At the moment, that's all I know about it. I'm hopeful I'll find out more details in the next couple of days, though.
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Post by Steve Williams on Jan 13, 2009 14:04:54 GMT
This was on Saturday SuperStore, as the piece is featured in the first SuperStore book - which means it comes from the 1983/84 series. It was based around a competition for young journalists, where the prize was to spend a day at the Reading Chronicle and cover a story for it.
I'm pretty sure I also have the RT from the week this episode was shown so I should be able to come up with a date. Of course, pictures, and the actual stories from the paper, are included in the book.
I like the way the prize was not to work on a national paper but a humdrum local rag. None of the winners, natch, came from Reading so wouldn't even have seen the finished result.
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Post by Steve Williams on Jan 13, 2009 18:35:31 GMT
And the date was 24th March 1984. There's also a feature about it in John Craven's Back Page in that week's Radio Times as well.
It says here that Roald Dahl was a guest that week, and I wonder if that's the episode in which he introduces Sophie Dahl. If it is, I'm pretty sure that exists.
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Post by Ash Stewart on Jan 13, 2009 21:09:30 GMT
Many thanks for all the extra details. A quick gander at lostshows.com for that edition says:
24.03.84 OB - York (missing)
Does that mean the whole thing's missing, or just the OB bits?
But if, as you say, it's the one where he introduces Sophie then that exists (well, at least the bit where he introduces her does, as that's been shown on a million "before they were famous" type shows).
Anyhow, the reason I asked is that a bloke at work was, at the time, working on the Reading Chronicle, and has at least some of this edition on tape. He was going to dig it out and see exactly what was on the tape - whether it was the full show, or just the bits at the Chronicle.
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