BBC1 strange scheduling

Except when Princess Diana died... although that was only the Omnibus.

but her thing was on the saturday not the sunday?

It was Sunday.

No its was a Saturday - 6th September; I llok up the newwspaper I kept of the day

Yep, her funeral was on in the morning and the shops didn't open until 2pm. I remember watching Channel 4 upstairs, had no interest in her funeral (was a kid btw )

She died on Sunday 31st August, I don't remember watch the BBC that day but I remember watching Calendar and 5 News about it. ITV had a day practically about it and I'm not suprised that the BBC had done something similar. Her funeral was on the Saturday, 6 days later (6th September).

I don't think necessarily so - there were IIRC two Panorama s last week or the week before. It has been picking up quite a bit lately, and someone even wrote into the Radio Times praising the episode Please Look After Mum . I think Panorama 's here to stay, for the moment at least.

I switched the box on to BBC1 at a few seconds to six in the morning, saw the generic BBC logo and heard "This is the BBC from London".

Not expecting anything like a royal death, my immediate thought was that we were at war and that the signal was coming from "the bunker".

It was almost a "pleasant surprise" to find out the true reason.

And there were, unbelieveably, complaints to the BBC duty office and Points Of View.

To stop the arguments - here is a sound clip from 1pm, and the revised schedules from 3pm that Sunday (31 August) - courtesy MHP :

Sound clip

http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/continuity/diana_death/dd_bbc_11.jpg

http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/continuity/diana_death/dd_bbc_12.jpg

It was Channel 4's remit to being alternative, they instead put on aload of kids shows for those who probably didn't understand what was going on, which is fair enough. But it did annoy some people who wanted to see Channel 4 News' take on the funeral. They did also take the 2 minutes silence aswell.

Almost every channel was showing it from what I remember, most multi-channels didn't bother showing anything or they took Sky News, it was very interesting to flick through.

The day of Princess Diana's funeral I was on holiday in the Lake District. We tried to listen to the funeral via the car radio but reception was poor...(not literally obviously!).

Think we had a late Summer holiday that year - I didn't return to school until mid-September.