BBC Nine'o'clock News 17 March 1997

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  • The BBC Nine'o'clock News on the day the 1997 General Election was called, presented by Peter Sissons. A report on the day's events, with a cameo appearance by a former Prime Minister. There's breaking news from Wapping, analysis of what the election will mean for Scotland, and Peter Snow explains what the opinion polls say and why many don't believe them.

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  • @bennewnham3502
    @bennewnham3502 Рік тому +16

    This bbc news theme is just epic!

    • @visionist7
      @visionist7 2 місяці тому +3

      Wish they still had it

  • @letmeouttamycage
    @letmeouttamycage 7 років тому +27

    Its great that history is preserved

  • @Andyc18
    @Andyc18 3 місяці тому +3

    That 9pm news theme used to scare me a bit as a kid in the 90's. Used to sound kinda haunting to me, along with the 999 theme.

  • @mfk5533
    @mfk5533 4 роки тому +17

    Rest in peace, Peter.

  • @forthrightgambitia1032
    @forthrightgambitia1032 3 роки тому +7

    It is hard to believe this was 24 years ago.

  • @youmo07
    @youmo07 4 роки тому +11

    R.I.P legend died today 2nd October 2019

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 Рік тому +6

    It makes me laugh when in this bulletin the presenters were commenting on the "longest" election campaign of 6 and a half weeks. Come to the US and try an election campaign of around 12 months.

  • @gregjones3678
    @gregjones3678 4 роки тому +7

    R.I.P. Peter

  • @halfbakedproductions7887
    @halfbakedproductions7887 Рік тому +2

    I remember the 1997 General Election. I was 9 years old and remember one of our schoolteachers talking to us about the result, then she put the TV on and we watched live as John Major gave his resignation speech before heading off to see the Queen.
    Never knew how my parents voted, but we were in a Tory seat that flipped red and I remember at breakfast that morning my parents seemed annoyed that our Labour candidate got in.

  • @ajs41
    @ajs41 10 місяців тому +2

    Why is there a picture from "This Life" at the start? Perhaps the continuity announcer had already mentioned it before this video beings.

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  10 місяців тому +2

      The Outer Limits was just starting on BBC Two, with This Life (s2e1) following at 9:45 PM.

  • @jacksugden8190
    @jacksugden8190 4 роки тому +5

    No more Peter, no more studio N2 seen here on the 6th floor at TVC as the bbc began crumbling after 1999 as it went into a brave new world of news presentation.

  • @MultiVince95
    @MultiVince95 3 роки тому +3

    Monday 17th March 1997

  • @alexhart4763
    @alexhart4763 7 років тому +5

    Blair's house in Islington looks very similar to Boris Johnson's house.

    • @DBIVUK
      @DBIVUK  7 років тому +10

      As Johnson's home is also in Islington, less than half a mile from where Blair was living in 1997, perhaps that isn't surprising.

    • @jacksugden8190
      @jacksugden8190 5 років тому +1

      I knew where BoJo’s house was, never worked out were Blair’s old house was in Richmond Avenue.

  • @remixchild
    @remixchild Рік тому +1

    Even by virtual standards, that is still cool

  • @hamish3596
    @hamish3596 5 років тому +5

    The Sun backing Labour 😱😱😱😱

    • @jacksugden8190
      @jacksugden8190 4 роки тому +3

      The Sun’s another poxy snoozepaper.

  • @BossySwan
    @BossySwan 3 місяці тому +1

    Force Major

  • @kennyryan625
    @kennyryan625 Рік тому +1

    0:41

  • @kevinlongman007
    @kevinlongman007 4 роки тому +2

    Once The Sun announced it was backing Blair it was game over for the Tories.

    • @alanberkeley7282
      @alanberkeley7282 3 роки тому +2

      It was game over even before that

    • @kevinlongman007
      @kevinlongman007 3 роки тому

      @@alanberkeley7282 Yes but even more so once Murdoch's tabloids started supported them.

    • @alanberkeley7282
      @alanberkeley7282 3 роки тому

      @@kevinlongman007 Murdoch knew the election was lost by this point. He would have looked stupid if he had told people to vote Tory and they had lost. Yes Blair's majority might have been down to say 130-140 seats if the Sun had backed the Tories but there is no way he could have saved them John Smith would have won had he lived.

    • @kevinlongman007
      @kevinlongman007 3 роки тому

      @@alanberkeley7282 The Sun was never going to back John Major in 1997 even if John Smith had lived. When John Redwood went up against Major in the 1995 Tory leadership election The Sun supported him and it was obvious from then that they had lost faith in John Major having supported him in 1992.

    • @alanberkeley7282
      @alanberkeley7282 3 роки тому

      @@kevinlongman007 If Smith had lived Murdoch would have swallowed his pride and backed him. Though the Sun really wanted Redwood and Major out of the way in 1995 and the leadership to be a battle between Portillo and Heseltine and it would throw its weight behind Portillo

  • @jimthompson939
    @jimthompson939 10 місяців тому +1

    Not being funny, but I think Blair's gonna' win this one.

  • @raydoolan3608
    @raydoolan3608 Рік тому

    Ŵ😊