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This is the news... on the day Bucks Fizz won Eurovision

By Jamie McLoughlin on Jul 15, 11 07:41 AM

I love this! It's two BBC News reports from Saturday, April 4, 1981. The first is from a bulletin screeend before the Contest itself, describing the security measures in place in Dublin which also mentions how the brother of a member of Irish band Sheeba is serving a life sentence. The second comes from the aftermath of the show, describing the victory of the Fizz. Whichever BBC journalist was employed to look at the scoreboard on the night wasn't paying enough attention - France were third, not Switzerland (the Swiss act finished fourth).

And how smashing that it was Kenneth Kendall who brought the British public this proud news, just months before Channel 4 snapped him up for Treasure Hunt.

This clip came from this user here. Great stuff.

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