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#OnThisDay 1983: "Britain's number one cat collector" Erika Bruce showed off a few of her favourite felines on Collecting Now.
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Get ready for #BurnsNight! Actor John Cairney has the fascinating story behind the tradition of eating haggis 🥔
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#OnThisDay 1759: Robert Burns was born. If you’d like to know more about the life and work of Scotland’s national poet, you may enjoy this 1987 clip from Mastermind. #Burnsnight
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#OnThisDay 1965: As morning brought news of the death of Sir Winston Churchill, the British public shared their thoughts.
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#OnThisDay 1967: A giant space mirror to create perpetual daylight? Good idea? The Bristol public share their views on life without night.
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#OnThisDay 1967: After a tragic start to life, Jingles the adorable African vervet got his big break on Blue Peter.
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#OnThisDay 1967: After a tragic start to life, Jingles the adorable African vervet got his big break on Blue Peter.
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Apologies - should of course be 1967, not 1957!
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#OnThisDay 1957: After a tragic start to life, Jingles the adorable African vervet got his big break on Blue Peter.
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#OnThisDay 1969: Holiday ’69 waxed lyrical about the future of Channel crossings – the Seaspeed hovercraft. It really did fly across the water, so much so that the driver needed a pilot's licence.
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#OnThisDay in 1927: The first BBC radio football commentary aired, the Radio Times supplied a handy grid so everyone would know where the action was.
The game itself finished in a 1-1 draw.
Find out more at:
canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/100objectsfoot
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#OnThisDay in 1965: Andrew Roachford was born in London. The singer-songwriter best known for the song Cuddly Toy spoke to Behind The Beat back in 1988, in support of Roachford's eponymous debut album.
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#OnThisDay in 1922: Telly Savalas was born, as Aristotelis Savalas, in New York. He appeared on Wogan back in 1988 talking about his time as Kojak and, in real life, becoming a father again.
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Forty years ago, Queen Kong (Deanna Booher) was in the BBC South East at Six studios giving Michael Wale and Fran Morrison, a taste of wrestling.
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David Sutherland OBE, who died yesterday, was an illustrator famed for his work with The Beano. In 1995, he spoke to Around Scotland on his process in bringing Dennis the Menace and the Bash Street Kids to life each week.
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Musician David Crosby has died. Watch an intimate performance from him in 1970, performing seven songs acoustically alongside regular musical sparring partner Graham Nash, tonight on BBC Four at 9:00pm
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#OnThisDay 1953: Champion boxer Freddie Mills attempted to fight his way out of a paper bag, quite literally, in a top of the bill contest at the National Packaging Exhibition.
Your announcer is Eamonn Andrews.
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#OnThisDay in 1983: Blue Peter's Sarah Greene looked at the hurdy-gurdy, a very different type of musical instrument, with the help of Róbert Mandel and his East European Folk Collective.
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#OnThisDay in 1934, Tom Baker was born in Liverpool.
The fourth Doctor from 1974 to 1981, he announced his departure to Sue Lawley and Sue Cook on Nationwide back in October 1980.
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#OnThisDay 1961: The life of a hermit - 30 years of solitude in one tiny room. Sound appealing? Brother Wilman doesn't recommend it.
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#OnThisDay 1966: Tired of online dating? Find romance at the marriage bureau - your very own local matchmaking service. Prospective suitors supplied, marriage not guaranteed.
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#OnThisDay 1984: No sign of inside the Almondbury tardis, West Yorkshire's last surviving police box. Take a peek, it's smaller than you'd think.
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#OnThisDay 1988: Want the latest in antiperspirant tech? No sweat for the Tomorrow's World team.
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#OnThisDay1983: Manchester's iconic club, the Hacienda was profiled on Riverside. If you'd like to see more, check out this documentary on iPlayer - bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod
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#OnThisDay 1983: Breakfast television came to Britain, with the launch of the woolly jumper-laden Breakfast Time.
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Did you know that today is officially #nationalnothingday!? What better way to celebrate than by gazing wistfully at the sedate banks and streams around the River Ouse? Coincidentally this BBC Interlude was first broadcast #OnThisDay in 1954.
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#OnThisDay 1987: Tomorrow's World speculated about what tomorrow's person would be like.
For more spectacular visions of futures past, visit
bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorr
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#OnThisDay in 1983: Diana Rigg spoke about beauty, disaster and her love of theatre while chatting to, and embarassing, Terry Wogan.
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#OnThisDay in 1993: Entertainment Express presenter Andi Peters looked at increasingly popular world of Tribute Acts, for fans who want to live Yesterday Once More, but whom (You) Can't Always Get What You Want.
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#OnThisDay in 1923: Ivor Cutler was born in Glasgow. Smatterings from the poet, musician and humourist are featured on this Archive on 4 special, available via BBC Sounds - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0
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Fancy a laugh? BBC Sounds Iconic loves comedy, and their archive offerings might be right up your street - from Hancock to the Goons, via Flight of the Conchords, Rose Matafeo and more… bbc.co.uk/sounds/curatio
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Any tin opener fans out there? Thirty years ago, Tomorrow's World looked at the history of tin opening technology.
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#OnThisDay in 1984: The first episode of 'The Chip Shop' aired on BBC Radio 4 , the first national magazine series on the subject of computers.
Hosted by Barry Norman, this wonderful excerpt features Judi Dench reviewing a Macbeth computer game.
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#OnThisDay in 1983: Tissues at the ready for a quite lovely and heartwarming story that Pat Phoenix (Corrie's Elsie Tanner) and Tony Booth (Till Death Us Do Part) told to Russell Harty.
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Happy New Year to Foula in the Shetland archipelago, as well as any other followers of the Julian calendar.
Nationwide's Hugh Scully wished the islanders a very happy 1983 with a wee dram, a traditional mutton dish and some fiddle music.
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#OnThisDay in 1926: Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire. The author spoke to BBC Breakfast in 2008 to mark the 50th anniversary of his iconic creation Paddington Bear.
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Smita Smitten, showbiz kitten, is off to a Hollywood movie premiere… sort of, in this classic sketch from the very first episode of Goodness Gracious Me that aired #OnThisDay in 1998. Watch all three series on bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod.
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Influential rock guitarist Jeff Beck, pictured here backstage at Top of the Pops as one of The Yardbirds in 1965, has died.
Watch him explain his guitar rig in 1974 on the BBC Archive website bbc.co.uk/archive/jeff-b
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