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by means of guidance, news and diversion to relieve stress and strain". "Diversion" was to be in the form of music and selected pre-recorded programmes. BBC executives drafted a schedule made up of music, drama, comedy, and religious programmes to be broadcast over a period of 100 days after a nuclear attack on the United Kingdom.
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From the 1980s, the BBC planned to broadcast for only a few hours a day and for a few minutes each hour, the intention being to conserve the batteries in domestic radios. There was to be no entertainment content for this reason and so that official messages could get through. With the end of the Cold
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developed the National Attack Warning System in 2003. This system was able to warn by television, radio and telephone (the latter only in some areas) of an impending attack using existing infrastructure. The BBC was capable of doing so within ten minutes using their existing broadcasting procedures.
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bombers used them to home in on targets. Although vague, plans from the mid-1950s were to provide both a national and regional radio service 24 hours a day (mirroring peacetime BBC operations at the time) with the objective of providing "instruction, information and encouragement as far as practical
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Regular drills and training exercises were held to give an air of realism, but many BBC staff saw them as pointless or declined to serve during a national emergency because they would not be allowed to take their families with them. One anonymous insider said, "I can't blame them for deciding there
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After an attack, there would also have been a regional service tailored to local needs located in regional seats of government. Regional controllers were to use these smaller BBC studios to give out local messages to communities and would have been manned by BBC staff. If conventional air attacks
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In the post-war era, plans were revised so that the Wartime Broadcasting Service would have coped with a nuclear strike by installing 54 low-powered transmitters and keeping (what remained of) the main transmitter network in reserve, in case
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was given. This studio would also have been used by government ministers to broadcast messages and announcements until the government left London late in the crisis phase (or during the precautionary period).
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War, the BBC deactivated the studios and emergency transmitter networks in 1993 as surplus to requirements. Many of these studios have become exhibits in bunkers, like the
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from Wood Norton. This would have consisted of official government announcements and information interspersed with filler material, such as music, news and warnings. The
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were to suspend normal programming, broadcast the frequencies for the Wartime Broadcasting Service and go off-air an hour later (with television used only to broadcast
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and government officials. According to an article by the BBC, recordings of a nuclear attack warning are still re-recorded and kept up to date periodically.
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Jim Black, a BBC executive, compiled a schedule consisting of classic BBC drama, comedy and religious programmes to maintain morale. These included
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that is intended to broadcast in the United Kingdom either after a nuclear attack or if conventional bombing destroyed regular BBC facilities in a
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Initially, a post-attack statement was to be broadcast confirming a nuclear strike had hit the United Kingdom and warning of the dangers of
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The decision to activate the service would have been taken at Cabinet level late in the crisis phase. On being given the order, the
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An Agreement Between His Majesty's Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and the British Broadcasting Corporation
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destroyed peacetime broadcasting facilities, the Wartime Broadcasting Service would also have been activated.
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BBC Radio 4 programme from 28 January 2008 about BBCs preparations for war during the 1960s–1980s
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and been broadcast nationally on all television and radio stations when a coded signal from
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The BBC had studios and production equipment at many government nuclear bunkers such as the
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were better ways to go than to sit in a bunker with a group of local radio engineers."
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BBC Radio 4 newsreader Peter Donaldson about his pre-recorded radio warning messages.
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By the end of the decade, existing transmitters had been fitted with emergency
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File 16 Civil Defence Communications and Warning, from Subterranea Britannia
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to guarantee due functioning of the corporation if cities such as
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and unavailable after an attack due to its susceptibility to
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