FROM THE ARCHIVE OF: The TV Room
The 1am BBC Two junction.
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[00:00:00] PROGRAMME GRAPHIC: standard BBC Two slide for The Learning Zone.
The education strand follows at 2am. Until then, Pages from Ceefax.
[00:00:06] GRAPHIC: a slide version of a Level 2-enhanced Ceefax menu. This slide is used to punctuate a Pages from Ceefax in-vision broadcast.
[00:00:14] TELETEXT IN-VISION: here we see the Level 2 teletext decoder in use. By this stage, the BBC had abandoned the use of Level 2 pages during “in-vision” broadcasts.
An odd hangover from that is the magenta bar on row 24, which was present for many months after the Level 2 graphics were stripped out.
The BBC Two Ceefax tape being played here is Winter Sun, which was in use from 22nd June 1992 until 31st August 1998.
The tracks played:
[00:00:17] Winter Sun performed by The Johnny Peters Orchestra.
[00:02:38] Country Flavour performed by The Johnny Peters Orchestra.
[00:05:23] Easy Drive performed by The Johnny Peters Orchestra.
[00:07:58] Stranger in the Rain performed by The Johnny Peters Orchestra.
[00:10:52] New Sensation performed by The Johnny Peters Orchestra.
[00:13:44] Pied Piper performed by The Johnny Peters Orchestra.
[00:16:33] Cooling Down performed by The Johnny Peters Orchestra.
[00:19:10] When We Meet performed by The Johnny Peters Orchestra.
[00:22:08] Spring into Summer performed by The Johnny Peters Orchestra.
[00:26:25] Somewhere in My Heart performed by The Alec Gould Orchestra.
This Pages from Ceefax transmission continues in the video clip below.
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[00:00:00] TELETEXT IN-VISION: Pages from Ceefax continues.
The tracks played:
[00:00:03] Love Never Dies performed by The Alec Gould Orchestra.
[00:03:01] Country Dreaming performed by The Alec Gould Orchestra.
[00:05:54] Dreams of Gold performed by The Chris Gibbons Orchestra.
[00:08:31] Off Limits performed by The Chris Gibbons Orchestra.
[00:11:37] Pleasant Pastimes performed by The Johnny Pearson Orchestra.
[00:14:30] Summer Love performed by The Bennett and Hall Orchestra.
[00:17:22] Daytripper performed by The Johnny Pearson Orchestra.
[00:20:01] Luxury Liner performed by The Jean Boucherty Orchestra.
[00:22:41] Honeymoon performed by The Steve Gray Orchestra.
[00:25:04] Early Riser performed by The Steve Gray Orchestra.
This track was faded out completely by [00:27:15].
There was one remaining track on this tape, which we didn’t get to hear:
Chesapeake Bay performed by The Errol Reid Orchestra.
RELATED ARTICLE: you can view the junction that followed Pages from Ceefax here.
Acknowledgements
PICTURED: Pages from Ceefax. COPYRIGHT: BBC.
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