80th Anniversary of BBC TV

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Cross posted from Golborne Vintage forum: http://golbornevintageradio.co.uk/fo...d.php?tid=5792
I rather doubt if you'll be able to watch this programme in the US or anywhere outside the UK except with the help of proxy servers.

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On 2nd November 1936 BBC TV went on the air for the first time*. The world's first regular high definition TV service. To mark this anniversary BBC4 will be showng a programme about the first day.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-...ars-to-the-day
http://www.windfallfilms.com/show/68...-was-born.aspx
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...g-80-years-on/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocoF...ature=youtu.be

Several of us vintage TV types helped with the production, including Paul Marshall, John Thompson and myself. It wasn't my idea to use a TV22 - would have been rather better if they'd paid for moving my 702 to Hornsey Town Hall where most of the material was shot. In the trailer I caught a brief glimpse of Paul Marshall. None of me, so you may be spared the dubious pleasure of seeing me on the box again.

I was at Hornsey Town Hall for a couple of days in March to help with the filming. I was asked not to talk about the production in any detail but now there's a trailer and other public info I assume that no longer applies. Meeting and working wih Professor Danielle George was a great pleasure. She is a truly lovely person as well as a first rate engineer.

*There were test transmissions to RadiOlympia a few months earlier