This is the first time I’ve seen this footage since the night it happened. Nik Gowing does an incredible, frankly flawless job handling a delicate and loaded situation but, even now, it still feels unreal and deeply eerie. I know it happened and it happened 27 years ago but it still feels so shocking.
Thanks for preserving this piece of history - this footage hasn’t been uploaded to RUclips before. Do you have any more footage of the overnight coverage, particularly the build up to the Press Association announcement/the immediate aftermath before the start of this tape?
At 54:18 - at this point there was a change over in the BBC studios. Nik Gowing the anchor here moves to a different studio, as you can notice the difference in lighting. The backdrop remains unchanged though. This was most likely down to the fact BBC News would be mounting a special networked programme from 6.30am, and they need time to prepare.
BBC pre-prepare and update obituaries regularly just in case as can be seen at 47.28 Martyn Lewis was the voice over and he took over as the anchor at 6.30am that morning. He would probably never expected that his recording would be ever used.
@@OcelotlDeCostaRica Nik Gowing's coverage began on BBC News 24 and it was in the middle of his coverage that BBC One started simulcasting from News 24. Unfortunately the only footage available is from BBC One (including Martyn's early report during the film Borsalino (at the end of a funeral scene nonetheless)).
Posting this on the milestone 25th anniv, here in the us we got word of it sometime after 10pm Aug 30, I certainly didn’t think she was destined for this but shouldn’t have surprised us given what she went thru, the kind of classical dramas we’ve been exposed to and what’s happened in real history, that it happened in Paris of all places stunning
It was either 6 or 6.30 AM. I was watching at the time. Nik Gowing said ‘for the the moment that is the news from BBC news’ and then it went to a slide. A VO said something like ‘This is the BBC from London. Normal programming has been suspended and we now join Martin Lewis in the newsroom’ Watching all this back I still find it incredibly odd. Such a weird day and week to experience.
BBC World was rarely ever seen on British TV, as it was a commercial company of the BBC, but this event was so rare that they had no option but to use their commercial company.
@Edutainment Edutainment Hi sorry to bother you but I seem to remember you used to have episodes of Chambers and The Really Wild Show on your old channel, if you still have those, please could you kindly upload them thanks.
Yeah, that's right. I forgot about Chambers. The Really Wild Show - I still have these old recordings on HDD. But there are still loads to digitise from VHS. I tend to upload Documentaries etc. to archive.org (Educational Progs). You'll find loads of stuff there. [Nat. Hist., OU Progs, Sky at Night, Wildlife on One, Natural World, Deadly 60,.....] I'll try to find Chambers & those Really Wild Show episodes. I'll upload The Really Wild Show: to archive.org. :-)
@Edutainment Edutainment Lovely thank you so much, oh by the way I forgot to add the episodes I'm looking for are from the year 2001. Oh and I forgot to also kindly ask for some news clips from 2000 and 2001 that haven't been uploaded yet, many thanks again.
@@edutainmentedutainment9656 where did you get this? And BTW, do you have the beginning of this coverage at 2:30am? There is an audio track at an abandoned website, but I can’t find the video.
We ask governments in all countries to unite bridge pillars as high as one or two meters so that if a car hits a bridge support it can still slide not as badly as a car hits a bridge pillar so that an accident hitting pillar like what happened to princess Diana does not happen again sorry and thank you..
This is the first time I’ve seen this footage since the night it happened. Nik Gowing does an incredible, frankly flawless job handling a delicate and loaded situation but, even now, it still feels unreal and deeply eerie. I know it happened and it happened 27 years ago but it still feels so shocking.
Thanks for preserving this piece of history - this footage hasn’t been uploaded to RUclips before. Do you have any more footage of the overnight coverage, particularly the build up to the Press Association announcement/the immediate aftermath before the start of this tape?
Searching for that too!
R.I.P Princess 👸 Diana
1961-1997
“The People’s Princess”; “Queen of Hearts ❤️”
“Queen of Humanity”
23:00 - Official announcement of Princess Diana's death.
At 54:18 - at this point there was a change over in the BBC studios. Nik Gowing the anchor here moves to a different studio, as you can notice the difference in lighting. The backdrop remains unchanged though. This was most likely down to the fact BBC News would be mounting a special networked programme from 6.30am, and they need time to prepare.
Plus changing attire.
@@malcolmpalmer569 Yes as protocol called for sombre clothes to be worn
BBC pre-prepare and update obituaries regularly just in case as can be seen at 47.28 Martyn Lewis was the voice over and he took over as the anchor at 6.30am that morning. He would probably never expected that his recording would be ever used.
47:28.
This is 'new' content. This is a part of the broadcast that hadn't been posted before in this form. Thanks for that.
Hello, is there footage of the beginning of the coverage at 2:30am?
@@OcelotlDeCostaRica Nik Gowing's coverage began on BBC News 24 and it was in the middle of his coverage that BBC One started simulcasting from News 24. Unfortunately the only footage available is from BBC One (including Martyn's early report during the film Borsalino (at the end of a funeral scene nonetheless)).
@@MM-zc6qv where can I find the full coverage from start to end? Is it lost?
@@OcelotlDeCostaRica I don't know unfortunately, neither if TV-ARK stored the footage
@@MM-zc6qv Correction: News 24 didnt exist during this time. They were simulcasting BBC World.
Thank you so much for this video!
Posting this on the milestone 25th anniv, here in the us we got word of it sometime after 10pm Aug 30, I certainly didn’t think she was destined for this but shouldn’t have surprised us given what she went thru, the kind of classical dramas we’ve been exposed to and what’s happened in real history, that it happened in Paris of all places stunning
23:28 "God Save the Queen".
25 years ago this year.
Today
Coming up in 13 days this month.
@@malcolmpalmer56926 years now.
Still the same emotions watching this.
Sunday 31st August 1997
can you do ITN about this please
what time did this broadcast end?
It was either 6 or 6.30 AM. I was watching at the time. Nik Gowing said ‘for the the moment that is the news from BBC news’ and then it went to a slide. A VO said something like ‘This is the BBC from London. Normal programming has been suspended and we now join Martin Lewis in the newsroom’
Watching all this back I still find it incredibly odd. Such a weird day and week to experience.
I guess at this stage domestic audiences saw BBC World coverage since News 24 didn’t start broadcasting until November.
BBC World was rarely ever seen on British TV, as it was a commercial company of the BBC, but this event was so rare that they had no option but to use their commercial company.
@Edutainment Edutainment Hi sorry to bother you but I seem to remember you used to have episodes of Chambers and The Really Wild Show on your old channel, if you still have those, please could you kindly upload them thanks.
Yeah, that's right. I forgot about Chambers. The Really Wild Show - I still have these old recordings on HDD. But there are still loads to digitise from VHS.
I tend to upload Documentaries etc. to archive.org (Educational Progs). You'll find loads of stuff there. [Nat. Hist., OU Progs, Sky at Night, Wildlife on One, Natural World, Deadly 60,.....]
I'll try to find Chambers & those Really Wild Show episodes. I'll upload The Really Wild Show: to archive.org. :-)
@Edutainment Edutainment Lovely thank you so much, oh by the way I forgot to add the episodes I'm looking for are from the year 2001. Oh and I forgot to also kindly ask for some news clips from 2000 and 2001 that haven't been uploaded yet, many thanks again.
@@edutainmentedutainment9656 where did you get this?
And BTW, do you have the beginning of this coverage at 2:30am? There is an audio track at an abandoned website, but I can’t find the video.
@@OcelotlDeCostaRicaA year late. But it did used to be on TVArk before the video servers shut down.
@@iamlightsovertheshadows is there a way to obtain it? Or is it completely lost media?
Wow
We ask governments in all countries to unite bridge pillars as high as one or two meters so that if a car hits a bridge support it can still slide not as badly as a car hits a bridge pillar so that an accident hitting pillar like what happened to princess Diana does not happen again sorry and thank you..
Why is this video so eerie lol 😅
Rip Diana
Something just don't seem right
What's up, Thomas?
Yes I think the same.
(2007)
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