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).

P122/02 ORACLE 122 Thu31 Dec ITV 2257:50
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     *****                              
  ********  The editor strikes back     
                                        
                                        
 OK - I know the ORACLE audience has an 
 in-built bias to the left. Nothing I   
 could do about that. Our letters page  
 may not have represented the balance of
 power in the country - but it          
 definitely DID represent a balance of  
 the letters written to us.             
                                        
 Sometimes it's been depressing. I admit
 to having censored the deep vein of    
 xenophobia revealed in some letters. I 
 had to, to stay within the law and that
 says something sad about the state of  
 the country.                     more >
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