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I was not born when the benevolent and gorgeous Princess Diana died on this traumatic day of history, but I have been re-watching a lot of footage from the BBC in recent years. Does anyone know the rough timeline of BBC One's overnight coverage?

I know BBC News 24 haven't launched back in the day and BBC World was still in their old logo and flags branding... BBC One did a news flash at 1:42AM and joined BBC World's coverage at 2:30AM... I seem to can't find any footage of this... is there a continuity announcer announcing we're joining BBC World and did they cut short of a film for this?

Apart from that, it seems BBC One have opted out of BBC World and started its own domestic news report sometime in the early morning... does anyone remember what exact time is it, and how it happened? (e.g is there a continuity or just a crash?)

Also, am I right that the BBC did the formal death announcement and played the national anthem a couple of times throughout the morning? From the footage I watched, the national anthem was first played at around 5AM with Nik Gowing, on BBC World for the international audience and BBC One viewers too (which I think they won't if they were NOT simulcasting with BBC One); then it was played at 6AM and 8AM with Martin Lewis on BBC One.

Of course, I totally understand there won't be any video footage because nobody DVR TVs for the entire overnight as DVR tapes are not cheap back in 1997~ If anyone could recall witnessing this I'm very eager to see your description of the presentation side of this historic event...

On a side note, here's BBC One's coverage of the news at 8AM that day:
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This is the earliest footage of BBC One's rolling coverage I can find, it's a snippet of the announcement aired at 6AM, rebroadcasted by CNN:
www.youtube.com