Let's Remember Together
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Quick Quiz
Game 79
The afternoon the telly gave to sport
A day without school
A video by Lost 1960s TV and Radio
The game's question
Walk through the week day by day, and let the day without school stand out.
No school that day. You slept in a little, got the bike out or ran round to a friend’s house. And in the afternoon the BBC gave the whole screen to sport: from 11 October 1958, ‘Grandstand’ filled it, first with Peter Dimmock, then with David Coleman. Which day of the week was it?
- Wednesday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Need a hint?
Think of the day with no school and the whole weekend still ahead. Who took over the armchair that afternoon in your house?
See the answer
Answer: Saturday – ‘Grandstand’, sport on the BBC all afternoon from 1958.
Why this game : Your own week as a child, day by day, with its favourite day and its small freedoms to tell about.
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