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marksi
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OK... one great OB I remember was the raising of the Mary Rose in 1982. We got to watch it in school (I remember watching the 1981 Royal Wedding at home, I'm not sure whether it was an official holiday or if it was just the summer hols anyway). One exciting thing about it was that our own (i.e. BBC South's) Bruce Parker did the commentary to whole country. Bruce is a true legend (even if to the rest of the country he's just the guy who did the Victor The Giraffe reports. Oh, and the first series of Antiques Roadshow, but who remembers that?).


In school we were forced to watch some old wet timber be raised from the sea bed as well. I still don't understand why that was considered interesting.
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GavBelfast
I assume you are both talking about the same thing.

I have it in my mind that the raising of the Mary Rose was a live and extended 'Blue Peter' Special?

They did something similar with some Z-List girl climbing the Old Man of Hoy, too, I think.

There must be some good reason for me remembering this sort of junk. I hope.

Rolling Eyes
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noggin Founding member
GavBelfast posted:
I assume you are both talking about the same thing.

I have it in my mind that the raising of the Mary Rose was a live and extended 'Blue Peter' Special?

They did something similar with some Z-List girl climbing the Old Man of Hoy, too, I think.

There must be some good reason for me remembering this sort of junk. I hope.

Rolling Eyes


Wasn't the girl climbing the Old Man of Hoy a Breakfast pundit called Zoe with very brightly coloured hair? May be misremembering but ISTR she was Joe Brown's daughter? Or am I completely wrong!

AIUI the BBC covered the climbing of the Old Man of Hoy 20 years earlier in B&W in the early 60s, so did it again in colour 20 years later?
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Westy2
Marcus posted:
Steviewizzywick posted:
Watching the D-Day coverage today reminded of some wonderful televised events from days gone by. Does anyone have a favourite past event that was televised. Perhaps it meant something to you personally, or you were taking part in it. Or you remember it for the wrong reasons such as link up problems or satellite links failing. One thing I remember was the D-Day celebrations of 1994. The main event of the evening was a wartime entertainment spectacular from the Royal Yacht Brittannia and featured Dame Vera Lynn. However, embarrassing for BBC1, the programme never aired and we were subjected to fifteen minutes footage of concorde. Anyone else have memories?


I remember that well. The embarrasment of the duty announcer as he struggled to fill and explain the loss of one of the main planks of the BBC coverage was evident to all.
Turned out it was an independent company which hadn't booked the proper lines. That company was Kilroy Television. I wonder what happened to them.
The programme was eventually replaced by an edition of Wildlife on One, showing urinating Racoons, which generated a lot of corespondence to points of view.

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Didn't it get recorded & shown a couple of days later ?

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