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BBC Archive 11h
1983: Blue Peter got a new set and - in true Blue Peter style - showed you how to make it. Remember to get a grown up to help - preferably a carpenter.
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BBC Archive 14h
It's . This 1980 clip features Space Invaders, Asteroids, Biggins, Wilcox, Jarman, Stanshall, and Strange. For more vaguely-videogame-related archive, check out our Gaming collection:
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BBC Archive 15h
1963: "Can you ever really enjoy a game of golf like this?" Cliff Michelmore played a few holes with Peter Alliss. The future 'Voice of Golf' provided commentary as they played.
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BBC Archive 18h
1951: "Like most great inventors, it seems that he could never stop inventing." In Brighton, Michael Redgrave unveiled a plaque honouring William Friese-Green, a trailblazer in the field of motion pictures.
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BBC Archive 20h
1964: Late Night Line-Up, the pioneering, closedown-delaying, live television discussion show, began. You can watch a selection of editions on , here:
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BBC Archive Sep 11
1960: "The language of the middle class is a strange invention. It is always three or four removes from the mechanics of feeling." George Lamming discussed the importance of West Indian literature, on Monitor.
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BBC Archive Sep 11
1963: "I don't think there's no way to train him - for he won't listen to ya!" Fyfe Robertson was in Calaveras County, California, home of the World Frog Jumping Contest.
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BBC Archive Sep 11
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In case you missed it, here's the first part of Mr Hogg's journey.
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BBC Archive Sep 11
1975: "I went through my packet of butterscotch, just as though I'd bought it from a shop. That was a big mistake." Nationwide returned to the remote Hebridean island where they'd abandoned James Hogg, to see how he was faring. We'll have another update next week.
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BBC Archive Sep 11
1959: The first ever episode of The Saga of Noggin the Nog, by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, was broadcast.
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BBC Archive Sep 10
1977: "I'm passionate about this club, with a capital P. You can't get a capital P bigger than the P that I'm passionate about this club." Grandstand popped in to see how Elton John and Graham Taylor were getting on at Watford FC.
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BBC Archive Sep 10
1976: BBC North took an unhurried look back at the spring bank holiday, in the the lovely observational documentary Scarborough Bank Holiday. You can watch the whole thing on the new BBC Archive website, here:
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BBC Archive Sep 10
1971: "A dog on a motorbike chasing a cat, but computerised for the first time." Tomorrow's World pondered the potential of computer animation.
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BBC Archive Sep 10
1957: "The nets are swung into the water on a forked stick and left there, lying on the bottom, long enough - so it's said - for a man to drink a pint of beer in comfort." Macdonald Hastings went fishing for crayfish, by the light of the harvest moon.
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BBC Press Office Sep 10
We're making thousands of fascinating clips from our archive available to watch on a new website:
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BBC Archive Sep 10
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It's true. We thought BBC Sport would blink first, but we were wrong. They can keep their yellow.
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BBC Archive Sep 10
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In case you missed it, here's an interview with John Wyndham, the author of The Day of the Triffids, that we posted a few days ago:
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BBC Archive Sep 10
1981: The television adaptation of The Day of the Triffids was first broadcast. Pictured are Emma Relph as Jo Playton, John Duttine as Bill Masen and a Triffid as itself.
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BBC Archive Sep 9
1981: "It can cost more to live here than nearly anywhere else in Britain." Newsnight reported from Colonsay, which - due to rising freight charges - was becoming as expensive as it was remote.
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BBC Archive Sep 9
1955: The Woodentops, created by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird, made their TV debut. Pictured (l-r) are Sam, Mummy Woodentop and the baby, Willy and Jenny the twins, Daddy Woodentop, Mrs Scrubbitt and the very biggest spotty dog you ever did see.
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