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charles wrote:
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.

I was too. On a recording of Dr Findlay's Casebook. The emergency lighting
in the studio died after a few minutes. So we retired to the club for a
pint - I think it was still daylight. After it was obvious the fault
wasn't going to be sorted quickly, we made safe in the studio by torch
light and went home. Strange the way some events stick in the mind.

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*OK, so what's the speed of dark? *

Dave Plowman London SW
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