In a video shared yesterday, titled 100 seconds of BBC News going wrong , the broadcaster poked fun at itself with a blooper-reel showing its unintentionally amusing moments.
The public broadcaster that is known by billions of people across the world was formed on this day as a private organisation in 1922. Above: The Morecombe and Wise Christmas special in 1972.
My grandmother described the IRA as ‘our lads’. And yet, at Christmas as well as the Pope’s urbi et orbi address she would listen reverently to the queen’s broadcast