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Old 9th Dec 2017, 9:44 pm   #37
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Default Re: 150 years of the Shipping Forecast

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Originally Posted by electronicskip View Post
Does anyone else have memories?
I was a Tech Op in BH Control Room & Continuities from December 1970 to June 1977 so many memories of of throwing the LW opt out switch which diverted the LW feed through the presenter's console enabling them to fade out of the programme and read the forecast whilst we played a filler tape on the rest of the network.......tedium for us but we were paid to listen for it!

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