Magnus Magnusson
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Magnus Magnusson
Just heard that Magnus Magnusson has died.
Does anyone remember when they filmed Mastermind at CH (Horsham)? Must have been 1986/87.
Does anyone remember when they filmed Mastermind at CH (Horsham)? Must have been 1986/87.
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Magnus Magnusson
Magnus had at least one other link with CH: as a boy he attended the Edinburgh Academy (and was head pupil, if I recall rightly) while its Rector (= Headmaster) was Clarence 'George' Seaman (ThA, BaB 1920-27, Headmaster 1955-70, Governor). One of the many books he later published was a history of the school, The Clacken and the Slate, in which (again, IIRC) he wrote of Seaman with gratitude.
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Completely passed me by. Did they film it in the theatre?Vonny wrote:Does anyone remember when they filmed Mastermind at CH (Horsham)? Must have been 1986/87.
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Can't believe you missed that!!! Yes, they filmed it in the theatre.cj wrote:Completely passed me by. Did they film it in the theatre?Vonny wrote:Does anyone remember when they filmed Mastermind at CH (Horsham)? Must have been 1986/87.
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Remember it well as I worked on it. turned out the reason they came to CH was a strike by BBC technicians meant they couldn't go to another venue. I and other pupils were effectively scab workers and not even a paid ones. Still got to meet Magnus who was very friendly.Vonny wrote:Just heard that Magnus Magnusson has died.
Does anyone remember when they filmed Mastermind at CH (Horsham)? Must have been 1986/87.
I think they'd been before.
Also worked on an edition of Any Questions that came around the same time. As well as the obligatory Songs of Praise / Highway etc.
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I didn't know that.adlop wrote:turned out the reason they came to CH was a strike by BBC technicians meant they couldn't go to another venue.
I remember that as well - I was in the audience for that one too!adlop wrote:Also worked on an edition of Any Questions that came around the same time.
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What on earth could I have been doing that I can't remember these momentous occasions? Probably lots of prep ... *cough* ... I have only a vague recollection of Songs of Praise at CH - I was involved with one of those programmes in 1979/80 from Sandwich in Kent, which is imprinted more firmly on my mind.
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There were two quarter-finals of Mastermind filmed in the Theatre on 5th November 1980 (I still have my ticket!).Vonny wrote:Just heard that Magnus Magnusson has died.
Does anyone remember when they filmed Mastermind at CH (Horsham)? Must have been 1986/87.
Fred Housego, the London Cabbie who subsequently went on to win that year's final, was one of the contestants. I remember that he got quite tense when the mechanical score-board got stuck and they had to reshoot a couple of questions.
As there were two shows recorded in one evening, for subsequent broadcast in two sequentrial weeks, the audience had to move to new seats in the interval - and remove all Remembrance Week poppies etc.
I was involved in the theatre lighting crew at the time, and got a reciprocal visit to BBC TV centre out of it.
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Remember it well. I remember chatting with some of the BBC technicians, and being told that I shouldn't point the lens of my camera (I was a bit of a photography nerd) at the lenses of theirs, or something awful would happen to the equipment. Obviously he was winding me up!
And I remember being in the audience and noticing that the back of the famous chair was quite scruffy.
I was delighted when somone's specialist subject was the novels of Arthur C Clarke (I was a science fiction nerd too).
Anyway - the theatre was very important as part of my education in all kinds of ways. What a fabulous luxury for a school to have!
And I remember being in the audience and noticing that the back of the famous chair was quite scruffy.
I was delighted when somone's specialist subject was the novels of Arthur C Clarke (I was a science fiction nerd too).
Anyway - the theatre was very important as part of my education in all kinds of ways. What a fabulous luxury for a school to have!
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