Oracle 1992

31st December 2010 - From Ant :

At this time of year I'm always reminded of how long it has been since Oracle disappeared - 18 years ago this evening in fact. With that in mind. thought you might like this. Bits and pieces of it have been floating around in various forms for a while but at the moment I think this is probably the most complete and restored version of the full last night of Oracle. Sourced from an SVHS recording, processed with some teletext hardware that basically did its best to repair the pages from as many repeat cycles as it could make out, and - after much procrastination - a certain amount of human repair (that would be me then).

P122/01 ORACLE 122 Thu31 Dec ITV 2303:03
    LIVE *    * ******************* 1/4 
     AT   **  * *** *  ** *********     
  ****** ***  ***** *  ** *********     
  ******** *****************************
     *****                              
  ********   The editor strikes back    
                                        
                                        
 We've devoted the last few days to     
 your "look back". Now I get my say.    
                                        
 Mostly what I want to say is "thankyou"
 - I've been in charge of the letters   
 page for 18 months and for most of that
 time I've felt very privileged.        
                                        
 Other letters editors may get the      
 "movers and shakers" writing to them,  
 but only on ORACLE page 122 has the    
 authentic voice of Britain been heard! 
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