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Anatomy of a 1979 football match -
Not the actual game itself, but concentrating on the
on-screen captioning used and other elements of the
general presentation. |
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BBC Gardening: a (potted) history -
Tracing the evolution of gardening programmes on
BBC1 and 2, with particular emphasis on Gardener's
World. |
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Baird's Early Experiments - The
winter of 1923 was when John Logie Baird first
managed to transmit an image by means of
wireless. |
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Colour television - BBC2 was the
first to transmit colour pictures publically in
1967, though John Logie Baird was conducting
experiments shortly before his death in 1946. |
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Early BBC Schools Broadcasts - The
BBC started schools broadcasts in 1957 with
initially one programme being broadcast each
day. |
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Hardware 1950s-1970s - Post-war
television sets and the rise of the video recorder
are featured in this section. |
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When things go wrong - Broadcasters
try not to make mistakes, but things occasionally
can and do go wrong. |
