1.5K views · 14 reactions |  'Grandstand' Saturday 10 October 1998 -- BBC1: 12:15 Long running sports programme 'Grandstand' celebrated its 40th anniversary today by re-showing numerous clips from their archive. One of them was this Sporting Highlights of the '70s. #grandstand | Bernie Briffa | Facebook

📺 ' The 1000th Grandstand' Saturday 11 October 1975 - BBC1: 12:00 'Grandstand celebrates its 1000th show and with it a new Grandstand theme is debuted. A theme tune that has gleaned so much affection and which remained until the final show in January 2007. A big band number, it opens with a timpani and brass fanfare. Dum dum. A superb entry into this classic tune. Once the music begins we are led to the “BONG!” which was timed perfectly to fit in with a boxer’s punch or a stray football shot. A

1.4M views · 29K reactions | The legendary Formula 1 commentator Murray Walker has died at the age of 97. Here’s a look back at the time he “realised a life ambition” by getting behind the wheel of a Formula One car. | BBC Archive | Facebook