London Calling

Series

Series Name
This Week In Britain

Issue

Issue No.
1042
Date Released
1978
Length of issue (in feet)
170
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1London Calling

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
COI synopsis: The BBC’s External Services broadcast to 70 million listeners all over the world, are on the air for 24 hours a day, and put out programmes in 39 languages. Vicki Luke looks at a typical day’s output from the BBC’s Bush House in London.
Researcher Comments
People featured include: Dave Lee Travers, Gerald Sinstadt and Mike Brealey. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 587’ ran the same story
Keywords
Organisations; Broadcasting
Written sources
COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 42 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis
COI Reference
MI 936/1042
Credits:
Sponsor
Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Cutter
Gus Nunes
Presenter
Vicki Luke

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Film Archive

Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
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Phone
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Address
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Notes
The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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