21-09-2023, 05:03 PM
(21-09-2023, 04:48 PM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote: Which year was it where Sue Lawley had to interrupt an interview with the DG or Chairman to throw to a newsflash?
8th January 1989 - the night of the Kegworth plane crash.
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The following year's edition featured a re-edit of Open Air's feature going behind the scenes of the Nine O'Clock News on the day Nigel Lawson resigned as chancellor.
Genome suggest there was also a similar regional programme in '89, again going out the night after the big networked show (Radio Times' synopsis for the South and East edition speaks of the "BBC's newest, biggest and perhaps most unwieldy region.")