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The four-minute warning was a central plot and narrative device in dramas (both on stage and screen) and novels, often being the motor force of plays, films, novels and cartoon strips. The BBC drama Threads, about how society decays after a nuclear holocaust, focuses on an attack on Sheffield. The War Game also portrays the four-minute warning ...
"Four Minute Warning" is the first single released from Take That band member Mark Owen's second solo studio album, In Your Own Time. The single was released on 4 August 2003 as his first single on Island Records, after he was dropped from RCA in September 1997.
WB1401 warning receiver in a former local authority control centre. The Director UKWMO was located at the United Kingdom Regional Air Operations Command (UK RAOC) at RAF Booker tasked with instigating the four-minute warning. [4] The Deputy Director would be located at a standby UK RAOC, described at the time as being "elsewhere in the UK".
"4-Minute Warning" (John Paul Jones) "For Her Atoms" ( Lydia Kavina (Theremin), Misha Malin) In the liner notes, Eno describes his experience of watching the Apollo 11 landing in 1969 and his sense that the strangeness of the event was compromised by the low quality of the television transmission and an excess of journalists' commentary.
PIFs were supplied to broadcasters free of charge for them to use whenever they wished. Their usefulness as a cost-free means to fill the gaps in fixed-duration commercial breaks left by unsold advertising airtime led to their being used regularly and extensively in the 1960s, 1970s and much of the 1980s, and consequently, within both the COI ...
RAF Fylingdales can be seen in earlier episodes of the 1960s set ITV Drama Heartbeat, filmed in the village of Goathland just a few miles away. [ 33 ] Turning Fylingdales Inside Out is a Newcastle University project to make RAF Fylingdale's history visible to the public for the first time [ 34 ]
"Four Minute Warning" By Mark Owen (2003) "Four Minutes" By Culture Shock (1989) "Four Minutes" By Roger Waters (1987) "Folded Flags" By Roger Waters (1987) "French Letters" By Herbs (1987) "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" By Timbuk3 (1986) "Games Without Frontiers" by Peter Gabriel (1980) "Glad It's All Over" By Captain Sensible ...
There was a claim by Jim Aitken that "Attack warning tapes were distributed during the 1980s to every radio and TV station in the UK, with Peter Donaldson providing the voiceover. This was accompanied by strong flashes of light on screen and 'dalek' music (presumably a dirge by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the same style as the 'Protect and ...