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A strike leaves BBC Two viewers with a caption and music.
Video content
[00:00:00] GRAPHIC: international golf coverage is blacked out by an industrial dispute.
In its place, BBC Two broadcast this apology caption, accompanied by music from the Ceefax/test card tapes. In this excerpt, we hear a track from the Mon Bijoux tape – it’s called Dream of a Lifetime by Henry Mancini.
Acknowledgements
EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTION:
With thanks to Ash Sowerby for identifying the music.
With thanks to Ash Sowerby for identifying the music.
FEATURE IMAGE:
PICTURED: BBC Two graphic. COPYRIGHT: BBC.
PICTURED: BBC Two graphic. COPYRIGHT: BBC.
It is possibly Saturday 8th October 1983. The BBC Genome for that day shows OU coverage as following at 11.50am, as per the holding slide:
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_two_england/1983-10-08#at-10.50
Thank you Anthony. We’ve updated the page accordingly.