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Channel 4 continuity including programme promotion for New Year’s Eve and followed by A Late Lunch with Les opening titles (27th December 1991)

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FROM THE ARCHIVE OF: Ashley Sowerby

A preview of New Year’s Eve on Channel 4 and the opening titles for a show featuring a Barry Humphries character.

VIDEO: Channel 4 continuity including programme promotion for New Year’s Eve and followed by A Late Lunch with Les opening titles. Announcer: Hayden Wood. TX DATE: 27th December 1991. COPYRIGHT: Channel 4 Television Corporation.

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[00:00:00] PROGRAMME PROMOTION: Channel 4 employs their own opera-singing talent to promote their New Year’s Eve evening line-up which includes Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti, Mehta In Concert, at 8pm.

Tonight with Jonathan Ross is at 9.45pm and As It Happens from Moscow airs at 10.45pm.

[00:00:35] IDENT: Channel 4’s festive ident.

[00:00:44] PROGRAMME: the opening titles for A Late Lunch with Les.

Barry Humphries unleashes his fictitious character, the lecherous and offensive Sir Les Patterson.

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PICTURED: Channel 4 ident. COPYRIGHT: Channel 4 Television Corporation.

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