BBC Classic Talk shows

For anyone interested the BBC has uploaded some classic chat show episodes on its iplayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p00p2k2v/talk

* Wogan from 1984: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00nyyt7/Wogan_25_12_1984/ 1987 version: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00nyyz3/Wogan_09_11_1987/

* Firday night, Saturday morning: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b016bgt2/Friday_Night_Saturday_Morning_Series_1_Episode_7/ BUT NOT the awful one by Harold Wilson

* People to Watch Ronald Reagan: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00nw14n/People_to_Watch_Ronald_Reagan/

plus Many other gems, Have a look..................

Interesting you should mention this - I was watching a piece from the Life Of Brian discussion just the other day and had no idea it was featured here.

If anyone has not clicked its in this programme: Firday night, Saturday morning: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b016bgt2/Friday_Night_Saturday_Morning_Series_1_Episode_7/

Good old BBC studio 'light bulb popping' about 28 mins in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/p00nyyz3/?t=28m36s

These are part of BBC4's 'Talk at the BBC' season: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p00p2k2v/talk

The Life of Brian - Friday Night Saturday Morning episode will be still there from when it was broadcast on BBC4, and yes they did broadcast it with the technical fault at the beginning.

Oddly the expiry dates on the iPlayer clips varies - the Life of Brian clip is there for 2 years by the looks of things, but the Wogan episode has a date of 2038... presumably this is an arbitrary date entered when this episode was put on there.

When the BBC put up old programmes or clips, the broadcast date filters through their database so that the schedule page for that date gets populated with that programme's details. The plan was always to have 'a page for every programme' and I assume this is part of that.

Incidentally other BBC4 collections are still online, the London one is particularly good: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p00synd3/london

There isn't the whole day's schedule, but it's interesting to see that a few things have popped up for random weeks in the past: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/programmes/schedules/england/1979/w45/grid

Yes, it seems to be programmes that have been repeated recently or have clips online. That Not The Nine o'Clock News episode has several sketches to view for example.

Schedules for the past few years are there in full

19th January 2038 is the maximum date you can store as a 32-bit signed integer on most 32-bit Unix-like systems, and is 2^31-1 seconds from 1st January 1970.

Urgh, I feel like Steve Wright giving out a factoid. Except I've actually researched it and I'm not just parroting something a bloke down the pub said.

Or in other words...
Jan 19th 2038 is as close to "forever" as you can get as things stand at this point in time, without getting technical.

When's Pebble Mill at One going up?

And in 20 years or so some people are going to make lots of money out of it like they did in 1999