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A Tram to The Bullring Video

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toolate4regrets

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Does anyone have a copy (or know where I can find one) of a 1974 BBC Programme called A Tram to the Bullring? ... the footage in that programme was also used in a 1989 BBC Programme narrated by Michael Buerk called Birmingham . The BBC have apparently lost/never kept copies of either show!
 
i have moved this thread to the trams section of the forum where you may get a better response to your query

lyn
 
Astoness said:
i have moved this thread to the trams section of the forum where you may get a better response to your query

lyn
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Hi Lyn

Thank you... I am still not totally sure if the title was more to describe a journey to and around the Bull Ring or whether a tram was actually involved at all... it may have just sounded catchy :) All i know is it used 1930s amateur footage of Brum
 
Yes I have the Part 2 video, but I can't find it on youtube it was called
Another look at Birmingham's Trams and Buses
 
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toolate4regrets said:
Does anyone have a copy (or know where I can find one) of a 1974 BBC Programme called A Tram to the Bullring? ... the footage in that programme was also used in a 1989 BBC Programme narrated by Michael Buerk called Birmingham . The BBC have apparently lost/never kept copies of either show!
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70s/80s BBC would have viewed anything about Birmingham as a sop to “northern” licence payers, and keeping a copy of such things as a total irrelevance. “Regional” considerations amounted to creating outposts like Pebble Mill from which the patronising concept of “local” programmes was broadcast. If it wasn’t Londoncentric it didn’t count.

Not changed much in 50 years, we’re still paying the licence fee.
 
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