| As I'm getting tired of wasting time controlling arguments from people both in support or against the Monarchy, comments are by approval only. If you're commenting on the video itself, and not the wider subject it'll be let through. Go find a forum for the political debate! :P Back to the point: To break the sad news of the death of the Queen Mother in Easter 2002 (not 2003 as the clip mentions), the BBC interrupted all of their channels to simulcast with BBC1 both here and abroad, hence the rather vague 'BBC Television News' announcement. For BBC2, this meant leaving the scheduled programme Steptoe and Son, but unfortunately someone told them to cut out a little too early, leaving several minutes of the announcer informing us over a slide 'we *will* be interrupting this programme for an announcement shortly', before Peter Sissons finally appeared (in his later to become infamous 'no black tie' guise). Clip From: www.tvwhirl.co.uk |
