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That's true enough, I remember reading in the nineties - around the time of its brief spell on the network - that quite often they'd film something for an episode on the day it went out.
Pobol has always had topical inserts (or "tropical insects" as the cast and crew apparently disparagingly call them according to the 40th anniversary documentry), so they've always been used to filming stuff close to transmission.
That's true enough, I remember reading in the nineties - around the time of its brief spell on the network - that quite often they'd film something for an episode on the day it went out.