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Television’s Dress Rehearsal

Date released

15 Apr 1946

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

46/30

NoS ID

101059

Story no

5 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Visit to Alexandra Palace as the BBC television cameras go into action. Windmill Theatre chorus girls are televised. Pathe shows how performers, producers, controllers, and cameramen operate to bring radioed...

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Day out, A (1972)

Director

Stephen Frears

Producer

Innes Lloyd

Subject

Drama

Alan Bennett’s first television drama, directed by Stephen Frears, is a comedy set in Edwardian Yorkshire, following a cycling club excursion to Fountains Abbet, as the shadow of war looms.

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Hamlet (1980 Radio)

Series

Prefaces to Shakespeare

In this radio programme Derek Jacobi, who played Hamlet in the BBC TV production, gives a personal introduction to the play. He examines the many interpretations of a role that has been regarded as the...

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BBC launches breakfast TV (1983)

Genre

News report; Vox pop

Report on the first broadcast of BBC breakfast television, Breakfast Time on BBC1, and its casual presentation image. Londoners comment negatively. Female reporter not identified.

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Matthews Interview: Michael Blackstad, Director of Programming for TVS (1981)

Mike Matthews talks to Michael Blakstad, Director of Programmes at TVS. He was born in Penang, Malaya, in 1940 and was educated first in Australia and then in England. He won a Classical Scholarship to...

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Twenty Five Years Ago

Date released

6 Nov 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1692

NoS ID

024349

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Twenty Five Years Ago. DESCRIPTION: The occasion was the 25th anniversary of the BBC Television Service, the first in the world. And Movietone, by the way, was first to supply the...

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BBC on licence fee increase (1984)

Genre

Interview

Interview with BBC Chairman Stuart Young on the increase in the TV licence fee. Male interviewer not identified.

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Rockets for BBC

Date released

25 Nov 1957

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1486

NoS ID

022047

Story no

2 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rockets Fired From BBC Mast. DESCRIPTION: The BBC’s 700-foot television tower, at Crystal Palace, has been given an unusual stability test. Rockets - each exerting a thrust of half a...

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Paul Fox on new job at BBC (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview with head of Yorkshire Television, Paul Fox, on his new position as head of television at the BBC and why he is moving job. Male interviewer not identified. Broadcast on the AM programme.

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BBC licence fee raised (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Labour MP Alex Lyon, on the financing of the BBC following a raise in the television licence fee. Male interviewer not identified.

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