Election 1983 on BBC Parliament

Just had this email from BBC Parliament:
1983 General Election
Friday 6 October
9.00am-8.10pm BBC PARLIAMENT
www.bbc.co.uk/parliament
BBC Parliament gives viewers a chance to experience the 1983 General Election through this archive broadcast of the BBC's original live election results coverage from Thursday 9 June 1983.

David Dimbleby hosts the BBC's 1983 General Election programme, with results analysis by Peter Snow and Tony King, commentary from the BBC's Political Editor John Cole, and interviews by Robin Day.

Throughout the course of the election, the pollsters at least had been certain that a Conservative victory was inevitable and that Margaret Thatcher would be returned to Downing Street for a second term as Prime Minister. The closer contest was expected to be the battle for second place, between the Labour Party, under the leadership of Michael Foot, and the Alliance, under its "Prime Minister designate" Roy Jenkins.

Live coverage of declarations and reaction to the results comes from across the country, including reports from Nicholas Witchell in Margaret Thatcher's Finchley constituency, Brian Hanrahan in Michael Foot's constituency of Blaenau Gwent, Kate Adie in David Owen's Plymouth Devonport constituency, Michael Cole with David Steel in Ettrick Bridge, Valerie Singleton in Torbay, Selina Scott in Guildford and Esther Rantzen with the crowds gathered at Downing Street.

In addition, Washington correspondent Martin Bell reports on the reaction to the UK election in the US, and the view from Moscow is given by Soviet press agency spokesman Gennady Gerasimov.

jesus.. anyone want to come back to mine and watch paint dry ..?..

If you don't want to know the score, look away now.

Has 1983 been shown before? I can't remember.

I wish they would get around to showing the 1992 election. What is it that is stopping them from doing so? Incomplete recordings, rights issues? If they are waiting for an appopriate anniversary to show it, when would that be; next year when it is 15 years since it happened?

I know the reasons behind why they don't, but I do wish the BBC would get BBC Parliament onto a full-screen feed on Freeview. It's been hell trying to watch the conferences this week and last, especially on the captions between each segment and for the speakers names. They're just too small to read on a 14" telly and not much better on a larger one! Added to which, there's also no subtitles... Having said that, I've never seen subtitles on there. Has anyone?

They'll never do it - too much like public service broadcasting. Scrap the licence fee!

If 1983 has been shown before, did they show the London opt as well?

(I'm assuming if it was from the network feed, London was on there by default !)

Which previous Parly repeats included the (London) opt out?

Do and don't agree with you on this. I don't see BBC Parliament as a priority, but when 301/302 aren't in use they'd be no harm in having a full screen option.

Likewise though out of Parliamentary hours they should ditch the service if the space can be better used for something else.

Your name clearly misleads us.

This would be one of the few elections when the BBC didn't use the Swingometer, the other being 1987, as I recall.

theres irony in there somewhere..

1983 has never been shown before. It was scheduled to be shown in 2003, but, well...wasn't.

I did a list of Election Replays in the BBC Parliament article on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Parliament . Seems this Friday's showing has been known for a while, as someone added the 6th October date back in July!