1992 General Election

Apparently it's scheduled to go on until 22:40. Does this mean it's going to go back to the begining and start again after it finishes?

Hmm, just had the result of John Prescott's teeth. He broke them on some toffee that his wife had put in the fridge.

One thing thats strikes me if we are looking back.... or may we be giving a window into the future.... I reckon this next election might be a repeat of this (only the parties flipped)

That's what I was wondering - it's at around 4am at the moment. Was Breakfast News shown on the following day? We could end up with a glimpse at that too.

Quite amusing that they're now talking about the ERM - it was only five months later that currency speculators starting messing about with the £ and the whole Tory victory seemed very phyrric.

I think there was a break for 'Breakfast News', then back on until lunchtime on the Friday, but there are still (at 4.30am) 49 results to come, including all of the results from NI, which included Gerry Adams getting the boot in West Belfast.

(People in NI probably wouldn't have seen a lot of the later coverage before, as BBC NI would have had their own programme on from mid-morning on the Friday.)

"We just had a Conservative majority printed all over your head."
"How terrible."

I'm not quite sure why I found that worthy of attention.

I never did like the set for this one. The most recent set they used for Election night on BBC1 was easily the best.

the graphics are very nice, which is evidence, if it were needed, that you don't need over sized astons animating on and off all the time.

For a one-off showing of such a long programme, I'm not sure that BBC Parliament would bother recording it onto server; there's probably someone in 4 Millbank today with his feet up in front of a D3 machine.

I would imagine so, particularly for legal issues. You wouldn't want a libel to slip through just because "nobody noticed it 15 years ago"

I remember going to bed in 1992 at 1.30am and getting up at 6.30 the following morning for school. This was my first real General Election and I always remembered it fondly. I loved that set in particular. It was big, and conveyed the impression of all the bussle of election night. That swingometer was the best yet, and how great to catch a glimpse of Bob Mackenzie in 1979. I don't recall Peter Kellner having such a prominent role, but Tony King and John Cole were brilliant as ever. As far as I remember the programme resumed after Breakfast News and actually ran until Children's programmes in the afternoon.

Tragic what happened to former Labour leader John Smith when watching this they're talking about when he'll become Labour leader. Of course soon after the Tories won, Neil Kinnock resigned from office.

Interesting presentation on this. Notably how awful the BBC's italicised font era was.

According to http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/ANCS076K_A (and my reading of it) we have more Rory BREMNER coming up next.