John Suchet was also a 5:45 presenter at one time there is a video of a Granada Reports opening with a John Suchet 5:45 closing from October 6 1980 the day Manchester City sacked Malcolm Allison
I once went to the Tate gallery and so people absolutely spellbound before the etchings of Blake. This does the same for me. I didn't really understand it then and I don't understand it in myself at all. I don't even really like Blake's poetry or art.
First heard this performed by The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers in the late 1980s, on a cassette recording by Hyperion. Beautifully orchestrated as the day it was first composed, it might almost have been intended to calm a distressed spirit. Thank you for sharing this.
Southern used the same theme music for "Scene South East", their twice-weekly opt-out from the overall region's news programme, broadcast from their studio in Dover.
There was a lot of spill over signal back in the UHF and VHF era of TV. In Ireland, people in Dublin could pick up BBC and ITV from Belfast and also Wales, and Dublin was well outside of both regions LOL.
@christopherhulse8385 I'm surprised that the map doesn't show a significant overlap into South Wales as I believe a number of Welsh viewers in that area could pick up the signal from Mendip as good as from Wenvoe
@johnking5174 in 1982, when I was 14, me & my family were on holiday in Blackpool & I were able to pick up RTE Radio 2 (now 2FM) on 612 AM. I'd heard from a relative living in Ireland that they played some great music on that station, but living in the North-East meant the signal was very weak & further compounded by Radio 4 having a relay on 603 AM. Great to hear it while on holiday though
Splendid to watch this again for the first time in many years (I clearly remember it the first time it was broadcast) on the eve of Remembrance Sunday 2021, having just returned from attending Choral Evensong at Gloucester Cathedral where the canticles were sung to- Howells’ Gloucester Service, a glorious setting in the building for which they were written.
Brilliant. I’ve been transported back to being a 5 year old. I’ve not heard those theme tunes for years, especially the Report West one. I remember singing along to it as a little boy. By the way, did they film it in a corrugated steel shed?
HTV West and Westward/TSW/Westcountry both liked to imply a larger claim on the South West than was reality; in actuality the former didn't really go any further down than Taunton whilst the latter was pretty much a Devon & Cornwall station which happened to cover small bits of the Somerset/Dorset borders.
@@pak8606 HTV was recievable in parts of Swindon and the relay at Seagry court was HTV, but it was also covered by ATV from Oxford. Even Southern could be picked up in some parts. I would suspect Cheltenham & Gloucester were ATV because they were served from Ridge Hill, don't think the Mendip transmitter reached that far.
Whilst based at the York Music Center with the West Riding Education Authority in 1966 -69 in Wakefield with John Gaval Masie Spence, Muriel Gill and under the baton of ex BBC Staff conductor Gerald Gentry ,after a gig I gave a lift back to Leeds to a most friendly violin teacher colleague Louis Schiller , Later some one said "You know whose father he is?" I felt honoured. Happy days. pmn
So nice to see both Anglican and RC in attendance of each other’s services in many of the videos I have seen on RU-vid. I noticed that in National celebrations at Westminster Abbey, there are always a couple of rows of RC clergy. Hard to believe that four hundred years ago they were killing each other.
