BBC Merry Christmas VT and archive
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This is a probable tldr but if you have a moment.. I'm trying to find an old audio (from the 70s? or early 80s) of radio, mostly cutting room floor out-takes) that had the likes of Thatcher trying to say "enough is enough" and Wilson berating an interviewer that his outtakes would probably get leaked from Lime Grove. The audio also has The "Woodrooffe Incident", also known as "The Fleet's Lit Up" which is a freely available audio of a pissed commander. And many more.
If anyone has access?? My brother was bbc for a while and that came around along with all the Merry Xmas VTs ( first one as above) The vt is 1978, dated as fuck so much of it is interesting but some of it ponderous and pleased with itself in-jokes about chroma key. It's on the archive.org which is a bit of a rabbit hole. Any help finding that audio gratefully received. I would guess it's at least 15 minutes long. Otherwise, for those of a certain age...click on. nsfw in a 70s way, with some fucks and tits
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unclepills, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 9:50,
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Was it definitely for in-house entertainment only or could it have come from a show?
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Pretty sure it was in house at the time. Some of the clips were a bit politically sensitive at the time but it clearly got out.
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unclepills, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 14:11,
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Yes a lot of the VT was in house xmas party stuff
I had a friend that worked there at the beeb late 70's early 80's and they were much looked forward to parts of the annual pissup as was the copious amounts of food and drink that used to appear before the bean counters moved in and fucked it all up for them (and me as I used to blag my way in) the more famous ones are the Rainbow twanger vids but the idea was the same. "it'll be alright on the night" tv show took over from there once video and the interwebs appeared.
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TBL I posted this on, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 15:17,
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Yeah, the "twanger" ep is from an ITV Xmas tape...
I've got copies of a couple (which are up on YT) that I got off UKNova several years ago.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Mon 13 Sep 2021, 17:53,
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I've got thatcher
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlPc-i9I1aU
and here is the fleet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WpiTa7azQs
he's drunk so at about 3 minutes when the lights go out he's somewhat confused
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unclepills, Tue 14 Sep 2021, 2:16,
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"I's disappeared! No magician who ever could have waved his wand could have waved it with more acumen"
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unclepills, Tue 14 Sep 2021, 12:25,
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key bit is at the end but from 1971 here's the prophet
Harold Wilson on leaking
...as reported the following day in the Times
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ta, it's a goood clip
i wish i could remember all the clip and we could recreate the damn thing
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unclepills, Wed 15 Sep 2021, 1:24,
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