BBC Television

I'm a proper Doctor Who fan.

Now, there was another program that depicted what would happen in the event of a nuclear war in Britain that was broadcast on BBC Television, and that was an episode of Panorama from 1980, which was called If The Bomb Drops.

It's presented by a very young Jeremy Paxman.

It's clearly a big influence on Mick Jackson, and I don't know about you, but I found it horrific.

And suddenly there was this great spike in interest in the event.

And by the end of the week, BBC Television were getting four million viewers for their evening coverage.

And now that wasn't... coverage early in the week wasn't about the sport, but it was about the event and it brings, it brings the attention to it.

So that might be a very strange analogy given the size and the magnitude of this event, but it might just be that all of this attention, which has been virtually daily might actually create the attention.

Here's Labour Party peer Helena Kennedy.

All of this now is from Politics Live, this lunchtime, BBC Television.

Helena Kennedy first.

I mean, there are already units within government to look at this kind of thing.

It destroyed half the building.

Again, the outer walls survived and the eastern parts, including the theatre and the BBC television studios and aerial masts were saved.

Parts of the famous organ were destroyed, though it had been dismantled for repairs so some parts, including nearly all the pipework, were away from the building in store.

Some of the damage to the palace was repaired immediately but Haringey Council overspent on the restoration creating a £30 million deficit.

My dream, BBC Radio 1.

And I just, I, well, funnily enough, Murphy's Law, I did end up getting finally a foot in the door at BBC Television, like World News Service or whatever, as I just got offered a job back at TVNZ.

Oh, wow.

And so I'd been in London for five months.