Does anybody know how to find the website mentioned in the show? I've tried channelfour.com but there appears to be pages only about the Mark Thomas Comedy Product. Any ideas???
Ha ha ha The guys last sentence kinda says it all - he really knows what he's talking about. NOT!!!
Every BBC building has a Duty Manager who "runs the whole show" as he puts it. Not co-ordinating Nuclear Attack Warnings though, but chasing IT problems, engineering problems or crewing problems etc etc.
However it is true that the Beeb have contingency plans for most things, but if we said anything about them we'd have to be shot! (someone pass me that rifle)
Oh and if that did happen UTV would record it and play it out in some graveyard slot when iit would be too late and everybody in Northern Ireland would be wiped out!
Don't think so. They're quick when it comes to things like alerting the public.
Have a look around the next time you go into Manchester city centre. After the bomb went off, sirens were fitted right across the place. I've never actually heard them go off and I doubt anyone would know what to do if they did, but they are there.
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Techy Peep posted:
Ha ha ha The guys last sentence kinda says it all - he really knows what he's talking about. NOT!!!
Every BBC building has a Duty Manager who "runs the whole show" as he puts it. Not co-ordinating Nuclear Attack Warnings though, but chasing IT problems, engineering problems or crewing problems etc etc.
However it is true that the Beeb have contingency plans for most things, but if we said anything about them we'd have to be shot! (someone pass me that rifle)
I thought the Beeb's contingency plans for nuclear war had been available for some time. I think that if there was a realistic threat that the BBC would take its cue from the government distributing its
Protect and Survive
leaflets and run the TV broadcasts that go with this. (Summary: Put all your doors against your inside wall and cover them with suitcases and boxes and hope for the best). Then after the bomb had been dropped the Beeb would keep us informed with the latest quidelines on whether to go out or not through Radio 4 - probably nowadays through TV aswell - and to get those who hadn't been wiped out by nuclear war the periods between the news would be interspered with songs from The Sound of Music and 60s radio comedies!
