in case of nuke war BBC plans to "distract" the population

[donsu]

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article347593.ece

Don't mention the war: BBC plan for surviving nuclear armageddon




In the event of all-out nuclear war, the BBC was to distract the nation by broadcasting a mix of music and light entertainment shows, secret papers released by the Home Office reveal.

Hundreds of security-vetted BBC staff and a select band of unnamed radio artistes were to be clandestinely dispatched to transmission sites across the country at the first signs of international tension.

Just before the first missiles had reached Britain, the BBC was to use regional centres in Birmingham, Sheffield, Bristol and Middlesbrough to broadcast a national service that the Government hoped would create "a diversion to relieve strain and stress".

By 1960 the BBC had stockpiled thousands of recordings of "war" programmes and records for possible broadcast at the height of an attack.
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and you thought mature, adult men ran the world


what does our media have in store for us? listening to christian rock? watching sports and Martha?

[Olney Blue]

1. Re-runs of "American Idol"

[FormerRepublican]

2. Bush propaganda.

It will drive the paranoia into mass suicide, making the nuclear attack moot.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

3. I think that "March Madness" will come early that year.

:eyes:

[ananda]

4. righteo, that should do it..

A bit of music and light entertainment should provide just the right frisson
of distraction and escape from those pesky nuisances like DU, fallout,
radiation poisoning, cancers, compromised immune systems,
and utter destruction over the globe.

I think I'll go update my equipment and earphones now, even though I
live in Houston. We'll need a bit of distraction here too after all.

Sue

[thecrow]

5. Sounds a lot like the band playing to the end on the Titanic n/t

[RagingInMiami]

6. Meanwhile, in the United States

Plans are underway to ensure that all Americans know that it was all Clinton's fault before they die.

[regnaD kciN]

7. "We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when..."

:nuke: