This is the BBC: An Impression of Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of the British Broadcasting Corporation

  • BBC Television documentary
  • Reel 7–9, 120–128, shows IB pretending to give radio talk: see short video clip
  • First transmission: 29/6/60 (the opening of the Television Centre, London) BBC Television (with IB excised)
  • Director: Dick Cawston (1959)
  • Transcript: made by Henry Hardy (of IB’s few seconds; made at National Film Archive)
  • Recording: BBC film library (16mm footage); BFI National Archive (viewing copy on videocassette)
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B.19
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