{"id":10530,"date":"2014-08-16T07:06:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T11:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2014-08-16T07:06:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T11:06:36","slug":"this-is-the-bbc-in-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/this-is-the-bbc-in-1960\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is the BBC&#8221; in 1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BBC-Film-1960.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10547\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BBC-Film-1960-1024x638.jpg\" alt=\"BBC-Film-1960\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BBC-Film-1960-1024x638.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BBC-Film-1960-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BBC-Film-1960-100x62.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BBC-Film-1960.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Jonathan Marks who apprised me of this excellent 1960\u00a0film from\u00a0the BBC. <a href=\"http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2014\/08\/a-day-across-bbc-54-years-ago.html\" target=\"_blank\">As Jonathan notes<\/a>, it&#8217;s heavily scripted, but fascinating nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4K37_naDSEA\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view the full video on YouTube<\/a> or watch via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4K37_naDSEA\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Jonathan Marks who apprised me of this excellent 1960\u00a0film from\u00a0the BBC. As Jonathan notes, it&#8217;s heavily scripted, but fascinating nonetheless. Click here to view the full video on YouTube or watch via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,305,304],"tags":[104,1360,327,3178,4093],"class_list":["post-10530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-videos","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-history","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-this-is-the-bbc","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2JQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7978,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/jonathan-marks-remembers-the-opening-of-the-bbc-seychelles-relay-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":10530,"position":0},"title":"Jonathan Marks remembers the opening of the BBC Seychelles relay site","author":"Thomas","date":"November 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In response to the announcement of the closure of the BBC Seychelles relay, Jonathan Marks writes: \"You might like to revisit this old Media Network when we spoke about the opening of the Seychelles site. http:\/\/jonathanmarks.libsyn.com\/mn-29-09-1988-blackpool-offshore-radio-\" Jonathan, I'm glad you shared this recording as it's also chock-full of radio nostalgia:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Jonathan Marks","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JonathanMarks1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9748,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/remembering-bbc-ottringham-on-memorial-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":10530,"position":1},"title":"Remembering BBC Ottringham on Memorial Day","author":"Thomas","date":"May 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Jonathan Marks, who shares this amazing story of the BBC Ottringham (a.k.a. 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