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“In two weeks’ time, the final of this season’s Jeux Sans Frontières
will be televised from Blackpool. During last summer’s series, film cameras
joined the Outside Broadcast units at Southport for the final four days of
‘organised shambles’. They watched the piecing together of the many parts and
the resolution of the endless problems before the show was ready for its 200
million audience in Europe.” (Radio Times magazine)
This behind the scenes look into the organisation of the
British heat of the 1975 JSF series was produced by Tony Salmon and
narrated by Terry Wogan. This programme was shown regionally by BBC Wales a
week earlier than the London broadcast. Welsh viewers got to see it on Sunday
12th September 1976 between 7.35 and 8.00pm.
The question remains, however, why this film took over a year
to be edited and transmitted... |
