[VMPhil]

Forum members of a fine vintage may remember that in the days when E4 didn’t start up until 2pm, they would fill their downtime in the summer months with the Big Brother live feed.

Often the audio would be obscured by sounds of birdsong or planes flying overhead when what the housemates were talking about couldn’t be broadcast for whatever reason.

Today I idly wondered how this was done - I would guess it was someone manually checking this, but would there be someone available to do this at all hours? Or is my memory mistaking me that you could watch it 24/7 on the red button at one point.