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The 3.45pm BBC Two junction.
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[00:00:00] PROGRAMME: the Lorimar ident at the end of an episode of Dallas.
[00:00:04] PROGRAMME GRAPHIC: the standard BBC Two slide design for Dallas.
The announcer tells us that the next episode will be at the same time tomorrow – 3pm.
[00:00:09] IDENT: the standard BBC Two ident is used to link into coverage of the Conservative Party Conference.
[00:00:20] PROGRAMME: the opening seconds of coverage of the Conservative Party Conference from Brighton, with commentary from Donald MacCormick.
And a relatively rare vision sync issue cutting from the ident to the coverage in Brighton.
Our recording is from one of 9th/10th/11th October.
In the early hours of 12th October, the IRA detonated a bomb in The Grand Hotel, where conference participants were staying, including prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
Five people were killed and 31 people were injured.
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PICTURED: BBC Two programme graphic. COPYRIGHT: BBC.
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