Sue Lawley: "We have rather been invaded"

I thought I'd look up the 6 o Clock News from that night and give it a watch. The clips that are normally shown and available online are just a cut down of what happened so I hadn't realised how long the first link in the programme was.

From when they appear on screen to when the first package starts is about 3 and a half minutes, all read by Sue Lawley of course. By the time the package appears they appear to have left the studio.

I like the ITN report, '....senior TV news executives rushed into the studio with a hacksaw....' . Yes, every TV production gallery has a hacksaw on the wall !

Yep it's only those at the cutting edge of journalism.....

Someone mentioned the recent Studio E invaders earlier, I really like watching channels like that but there definitely are some that are fake like rkolsen says.

Some people who do real vids like that are starting to get sued a lot though. Ally Law is probably the best creator of that type but Man City didn’t appreciate him and his friends sitting on the Eastlands roof.

There are certainly some who give urban explorers a bad name.

Has it ever been mentioned if the protesters had any inside help in knowing where the news studio was? Even if there were signs pointing to Studio N1, you'd need to be in the know that that was the place to go.

It was a protest against some dreadful anti-gay legislation being introduced at the height of the AIDS crisis. Hardly amusing.

I don’t recall there being signs for the news studios, apart from some subtle (ish) on air lights once you were there (they weren’t the classic television centre style Studio 1/REHEARSAL/TRANSMISSION ones either - they simply said N1/ON AIR. They were relatively hard to find if you didn’t know where they were.
As programmes like Blue Peter used to showcase the fact the main studios were on the ground floor, You’d be forgiven for assuming as an outsider that the news studios might be on the ground floor too. Not the Sixth floor, and not in a bit of the building that looked like it might be offices or some other ancillary operation.

We ran a longer interview with the protester in a radio piece for Witness (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswsqf ) and she said they were 'armed with a map' - so they were able to find a side entrance and leg it up the stairs to the right studio.

Armed with a map?
Hmm..that swings to the theory that they had insider help then..

Is this version (with gallery talkback) genuine?