ONE of the best-known incidents in the history of British live television, courtesy of YouTube.
The year is 1963¹. Journalist and critic Bernard Levin (PB 37-45) is taking part in the satirical BBC programme That Was The Week That Was ², but waiting to assault him is Desmond Leslie, incensed at Levin’s hostile review of a performance by Leslie’s then wife, the singer and actress Agnes Bernelle…
Full marks to Levin for his composure.
(Best YouTube comment: ‘disgusting that such brutal horrer [sic] is displayed where the innocent eyes of youth could be scrambled and deranged...no wonder we live in fear my god...’)
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¹ Or possibly 1962 – accounts vary.
² At least one of whose writers was an Old Blue, Sydney Carter (PB 1926/27-33).
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- TRONGON CHARSLEY
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