BBC News nostalgia, including BBC World

I've seen earlier US footage (not least the 6 Twilight Zones that were done on video), I don't think that counts though as we're talking UK here.

There is surving VT footage of Granada's coverage of the JFK assasination, I've seen that before. Oh, and some early behind the scenes Corrie footage on VT from 1961 was shown on the documentry about the moving sets back in 2014 (they mentioned it had been recently found, so presumably it's a tape that had been squirrelled away which is why it didn't get wiped).

As far as I'm aware, every episode of the short lived Anglia soap Weaver's Green which was made from 1965-66 exists on VT (certainly the two episodes I've seen do), which is itself pretty remarkable, even Corrie from this era only exists on telerecordings.

Didn't someone on here say the last few months of that set were in N6?

Am I correct in thinking the David Lowe era began with the Six O Clock News? This promo suggests it may have?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82S8aCUJzJc

Would anyone happen to know where I might find the clip of Sophie Raworth taking over mid bulletin due to Anna Ford losing her voice.

The BBC's own story is still up but the media doesn't work which is not surprising considering how old it is. I've trawled Youtube but it's not there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2794683.stm

It says at the end that there's always a back up presenter to take over in a situation like that. I wonder if that's still the case now? I imagine if it happened now the duty News Channel presenter would take over.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/school_report/8550386.stm

In normal circumstances (ie not when they are trying to keep the number of people on site to a minimum due to Coronavirus) there would always be somebody around who could fill in, I'm sure. Maybe not rostered explicitly as a backup newsreader (other than for OBs).

Even when the overnight newsreader fell asleep and missed the start of his shift, there was a producer who had some presenting experience who was able to jump into the chair.

In normal circumstances (ie not when they are trying to keep the number of people on site to a minimum due to Coronavirus) there would always be somebody around who could fill in, I'm sure. Maybe not rostered explicitly as a backup newsreader (other than for OBs).

Even when the overnight newsreader fell asleep and missed the start of his shift, there was a producer who had some presenting experience who was able to jump into the chair.