I remember the early 2000s fire and they just said ‘naw we on fire let’s not’

This is fine.

Aow en tha naim ov tha qoueain

I don't want to set the world on fire- The Ink Spots

@@mango8616 This was 1987, not 1993. If was, Then that's Dan Hartman.

Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - Fire; Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil - let’s jump forward and grab some futuristic songs!

And BTS-Fire.

@@darkheart8403 I love BTS.

Maybe the fire started in the Songs of Praise VT room and all they managed to save was one song?

BBC cut backs, they could only afford one song !

The tape actually skipped to the end of the music, they actually played more songs, but since they went on for much longer, the person recording this just skipped over to the end.

The building was on fire, no time for proofreading in that situation.

I get the shivers watching David Icke talking to Jan Leeming. I wonder what he is talking about🤔

Peter...you've _lost_ the _news!

Because he was a nonce?

It was a 30-minute rendering of that round “London’s Burning” - that edition of Song Of Praise featured that!

minakomel In the meantime we have some tea available, please bear with us while we correct the fault

'Live updates throughout the night are on Radios 1, 2 and 4. Cough, cough, splutter, there's no need for alarm'.

It's not 'broadcast quality', probably?

A match was lit inside the building?

Emergency continuity is a very interesting thing in television for me. WGAL in Lancaster had a partial roof collapse at their studio that took them off air. Two continuity options were set up, they used a live truck (first outside and later they were generously given the use of a local government building) to run a live truck. For cable TV viewers arrangements were made to switch to WWBT 12 out of Philadelphia at least for Comcast Xfinity viewers (possibly satellite viewers as well) which restored network programs. Those limited to off air viewing and did not have the ability to stream unfortunately lost service. Another interesting case was with channel 5 in Nashville in April 1998. The television studio was destroyed by a Tornado, but they were able to get some on-air people and engineers with a live truck over to their transmitter site and restore a very limited service there.

WWBT is out of Richmond, Virginia.

In the meantime, here is a picture of some toast and some music.

(someone correct me if I'm wrong) I think it was a dodgy appliance (toaster or something?) .

Jan's hair spray before it made the hole in the Ozone layer?

I remember him on Southern TV and claiming there were UFO's in his garden or somesuch. Then he was "let-go" (fired)

A hot new tune that's burning up the charts?

Or Relight my fire in a cheesy version from Ray Conniff in a ideal mood

Glenn Frey, formerly of The Eagles!

My favorite station!

No the 'Song Of Praise.'. Must be related to Maradona? Oh, dear.

Praise?

Gremlins? 😈

It often depended on whether there was time to play anything else and what was available to use. In a dire emergency control would have been handed to Birmingham in any case.

And made her sit next to David Icke

Thinks: 'I get overtime if I stay in my seat and do my job. Perhaps, while playing some music, I can make up a new game! How to make a programme menu in 140 characters or less? Oh dear, one letter too many; I'll drop the 's' from 'Songs', thus 140 characters, exactly. That was difficult, it will never catch on. I wonder if anyone will notice?'.

The Search for El Dorado only aired over three Sundays - 15th and 22nd February and 1st March 1987, so it must have been the day before one of these three options.

'Me, vacating the building?'.

It's real.

The news most certainly was not prerecorded, it was live. It would be a major breach of the BBC Royal Charter if it was prerecorded. Note that the announcer says "a fire in the building" not specifically in the newsroom.

No, his script had gone up in flames, so he had to make something up instead, then the music machine broke down, then the...

(Digital On-screen Graphic)

It has a 'cat' instead?

Perhaps it was a failed attempt at a certain 'sound reduction' logo? LOL.