1983: Making BREAKFAST TIME | Pebble Mill at One | Making of... | BBC Archive

Donny Macleod presents a special edition of Pebble Mill At One, focusing on the launch of BBC Breakfast Time.

Donny goes behind the scenes of Britain's first ever regular breakfast television show, where journalists, production staff, engineers and presenters are all hard at work ahead of the first live broadcast on January 17th. Breakfast television marks the BBC's biggest operational shake-up since the launch of BBC Two in 1964. Breakfast Time Editor Ron Neil explains the logistics of putting the show together, Tam Fry demonstrates some of the new computer technology involved, Debbie Rix discusses how she became the first breakfast television newsreader role, and presenter Frank Bough chats about unusual working hours.

Originally broadcast 14 January 1983.

You can listen to news of UK breakfast television being given the green light by the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) on 28 December 1980 in the BBC Sounds archive series, On This Day - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0d...




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