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What was on the TV or Radio the day you were born?

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ninathenana Fri 17-Oct-14 09:42:09

Watch with mother and a children's programme called A Castle and Sixpence a six part series apparently. Also in honour of Australia Day a version of Alice in Wonderland were she falls in the hole and ends up in Australia.

Have discovered I was born on a Tuesday.

hildajenniJ Fri 17-Oct-14 09:13:59

Oh this is good! On the day I was born were:

Rugby Football: Oxford v Cambridge

A documentary about Louis Braille

"For the Children"

"Sara Crewe" by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Episode 6

"We must kill Toni" - sounds scary.

Amateur Boxing.

Newsreel, then at 22.30 the weather forecast and that was the end of broadcasting for the day.

Pittcity Fri 17-Oct-14 09:01:31

Sophocles' Antigone at 2pm followed by Andy Pandy. What a leap!!

baubles Fri 17-Oct-14 07:24:53

I'm off to search the archives of Raidió Teilifís Éireann to find out what was playing on my birthdate. News, the Angelus and ballads probably.

pompa Fri 17-Oct-14 06:47:21

Not sure I can remember the day I was born.
But my earliest memories of radio were Listen with Mother and Dan Dare on Radio Luxembourg. I remember my parents listening to the Archers and forces favorites ?. There were also comedy programmes such as Round the Horn, Educating Archie (how can you have a ventriloquist of radio ?), the Glums and lots of others.

Teetime Fri 17-Oct-14 06:30:17

Mostly coronation news I should think.

Starling Thu 16-Oct-14 23:45:55

Watch with Mother, Wells Fargo and Juke Box Jury in my case!

See genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/

"A new digital archive of Radio Times listings has opened up a treasure chest of TV (or radio) nostalgia."

It goes back to 1923!