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So you want to get a video recorder..?
The head of BBC home video offers his advice to those about to get their first VCR
Windward Islands Broadcasting Service
The BBC helps set up a new broadcaster… in the middle of a hurricane
Demonstration of Colour Television to Members of Parliament
The BBC tests NTSC colour on 405-lines for the benefit of MPs
Treasure Hunt – an adventure entertainment
Even harder than it looks: the technological challenge of Channel 4’s Treasure Hunt
The ‘Emmy’ winner who sent Robin Day to cover sport and made the Minister stop traffic!
A profile of a man who worked at Ally Pally, ITN, Anglia, Tyne Tees and Oracle – Arthur Clifford
The last of Richard Baker’s summer wine
As Richard Baker retires from newsreading in 1982, Ariel looks back at his BBC career
Champagne Breakfast
The BBC’s new programme Breakfast Time has launched and the staff newspaper is full of praise
What a pity Mr. Jonathan Miller should lose his nerve
Milton Shulman vents his spleen at arts programming in general and Jonathan Miller in particular
Just for a change why doesn’t Panorama etc get out of the rut?
TV critic Milton Shulman turns his withering eye on current affairs programming
Opportunity Knocks for Brenda Marsh
The paperwork behind bringing one person on to Opportunity Knocks
Twenty Questions
Souvenir leaflet for a comedy panel game at the Dome in Brighton in 1961
London Calling… urgently
“Hello, Fenella? I shan’t be able to get back for dinner. A sort of war’s broken out.”
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