50 Years Of BBC Television News (2004)
To mark 50 years of BBC TV News, a look back on how stories were reported in each decade. Narrated by key figures including Charles Wheeler, Michael Buerk, Kate Adie, John Simpson and Jeremy Bowen.
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1. 1954-19632004-07-05 · 27mMichael Buerk looks back at the birth of BBC Television News and how it showed the post-war world taking shape: the black and white era of Winston Churchill, the death of John F Ke
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2. 1964-19732004-07-05 · 34mCharles Wheeler reflects on an age which saw America embroiled in the war in Vietnam, violent clashes over civil rights and Watergate; an age when 'mods' fought 'rockers' - and man
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3. 1974-19832004-07-06 · 35mKate Adie remembers the three-day week, the IRA's mainland bombing campaign, Charles and Diana and the arrival of Britain's first woman Prime Minister, whose political fortunes wer
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4. 1984-19932004-07-06 · 30mJohn Simpson looks at a decade of profound change. The Berlin Wall came down, while apartheid collapsed along with communism. Thatcher's Britain was transformed and tragedy came to
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5. 1994-20042004-07-07 · 32mJeremy Bowen introduces the age of 24-hour news, when the world watched the September 11th attacks live on television. Diana was killed in Paris; Concorde made its last flight; the
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