In article , David Looser
wrote:
"Terry Casey" wrote

The version of events I described is the one that has been quoted for
over 40 years but I only became aware of that bulletin a couple of
months ago ...

Was it a recording you saw - or a film made at the time?

What I actually saw was a DVD, copied from a video tape. My understanding
is that someone at Kingswood Warren decided to record this "first
programme" off-air, but that the tape then lay forgotten for many years
until it was rediscovered a few years ago. I also understand that the
DVD I saw was a direct copy from the original off-air tape. It's clear
from the picture quality that this was a video-tape recording, not a
film telerecording.

I was working at TV Centre that night. Yes, the Panorama ( a BBC1
programme) team went off to AP (from Lime Grove, which also lost power),
but I was not aware of any attempt to put out BBC2 on air. Not that we'd
have seen it. I also wonder if staff at KW were on site after 5pm. It was
usual to have a general exodus at that time.

Its the most appallingly amateurish thing imaginable.

Since AP was the home of BBC News, why should this have happened. Much
more likely is that someone made "an Entertainment Tape" as a "spoof".

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