BR
I guess it was felt more sombre.
It's always puzzled me why BBC news used the night time set throughout the whole day. They usually changed back to the daytime set after the late evening news ready for the next days bulletins anyway.
I guess it was felt more sombre.
WA
I think Ive read that somewhere (possibly here) now you mention it.
Wasn't that the first day of a new look?
I think Ive read that somewhere (possibly here) now you mention it.
BR
Interesting how almost all broadcasters have opted not to show documentaries on the anniversary itself. A repeat of Tuesdays night documentary is on ITV now but apart from that can't see anything scheduled today at all, even on the specialist channels like Yesterday etc. who you might expect to have filled the day with content.
Have deliberately avoided most documentaries but the BBC one on Sunday was very good, and as a result the ITV one on Tuesday appeared very weak in comparison.
Have deliberately avoided most documentaries but the BBC one on Sunday was very good, and as a result the ITV one on Tuesday appeared very weak in comparison.
JO
I clearly remember I was 9 years old, staying round at my grans house and wondering why there was nothing to watch on TV (cartoons and the like). The death of the queen mother actually 'hit' me more as I was a bit older by that point and clearly remember the moment when my TV was interrupted by the acrobats followed by Peter Sissons.
9/11 was interesting too, spookily the school lesson I was in as the attacks were unfolding was a PHSE lesson about religion, peace, war that sort of stuff then I stayed behind after school as I usually did just messing about online when a teacher told my teacher what was going on, and he swiftly made me go home with a look of shock on his face, when I got home my parents were glued to the TV and the images that everyone remembers from that day, I didn't really understand any of it properly until a good few years later!
9/11 was interesting too, spookily the school lesson I was in as the attacks were unfolding was a PHSE lesson about religion, peace, war that sort of stuff then I stayed behind after school as I usually did just messing about online when a teacher told my teacher what was going on, and he swiftly made me go home with a look of shock on his face, when I got home my parents were glued to the TV and the images that everyone remembers from that day, I didn't really understand any of it properly until a good few years later!
LL
Presumably they thought they'd get a bigger viewership on a Bank Holiday weekend than in the middle of a summer week.
Interesting how almost all broadcasters have opted not to show documentaries on the anniversary itself.
Presumably they thought they'd get a bigger viewership on a Bank Holiday weekend than in the middle of a summer week.
JA
The video in that article has a statement from "Mother Teresa's spokeperson", Mother Teresa herself would be dead within a week.
The video in that article has a statement from "Mother Teresa's spokeperson", Mother Teresa herself would be dead within a week.
RI
Radio 1 were playing it a lot after her death. I always put it down to them.
This from Kay Burley in that article is interesting
Kate Thornton tells a similar story of the ITV show she was working on that day.
Surprised that Kay wouldn't have had the BBC Radio coverage or LBC on as she drove in.
Quote:
At the end of our broadcast we were contemplating appropriate music to accompany a video montage.
I suggested a cassette tape I'd been listening to on the drive in that morning.
"Some of the lyrics are inappropriate, but it sums up Diana for me," I said to the team.
It was Elton John's Candle in the Wind.
I suggested a cassette tape I'd been listening to on the drive in that morning.
"Some of the lyrics are inappropriate, but it sums up Diana for me," I said to the team.
It was Elton John's Candle in the Wind.
Kate Thornton tells a similar story of the ITV show she was working on that day.
Surprised that Kay wouldn't have had the BBC Radio coverage or LBC on as she drove in.
Radio 1 were playing it a lot after her death. I always put it down to them.
RE
I didn't realise he had been knighted.
I didn't realise he had been knighted.
JA
Also watching through that video I notice when Martyn's showing the front pages of some late editions, the Sunday Mirror has a very inappropriate masthead promoting some sort of free Diana and Dodi pull-out!
