Drunk Broadcaster s Incoherent News Report From the 1930s Goes Viral
On 5/21/21 at 9:34 AM EDT
Dan Snow, host of the
History Hit podcast, shared the audio recording of the 84-year-old broadcast by Lieutenant Commander Thomas Tommy Woodrooffe and it has now been listened to more than 186,000 times.
Woodrooffe had been in the U.K. s Royal Navy before becoming a broadcaster. He was tasked with covering a fleet review at Spithead, off Hampshire, England, on BBC radio on May 5, 1937. His clearly inebriated performance soon became a famous gaffe- but it was not to be his last.
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