{"id":9411,"date":"2021-05-14T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T09:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2021-05-14T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T09:48:17","slug":"stoics-11th-birthday-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/stoics-11th-birthday-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"STOIC&#8217;s 11th Birthday: 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2021\/05\/Control-Room-Lawrence-Windley-Mark-Simms-198X.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9432\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2021\/05\/Control-Room-Lawrence-Windley-Mark-Simms-198X-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a very short piece that I found at the end of one of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/stoic50-1970-2020\/\">STOIC<\/a>&#8216;s Newsbreak programmes from 1981. It was signalling the fact that it was the 11th birthday of the TV Society, which aired its first programme (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/ic-newsreel-number-1-1970\/\">IC Newsreel<\/a>) back in February 1970. However, things never always go to plan as you&#8217;ll see. Tracy Poole (now Dudley) was with Mark Simms (also in the photo on the right) who tragically died in a car accident while still studying at Imperial.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"STOIC 11th Birthday: 1981\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PjhaA7N4Uao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw May 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1981 it was STOIC&#8217;s 11th birthday and it didn&#8217;t go unnoticed at the end of one of their news programmes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18461,80,82],"tags":[212,89,18467],"class_list":["post-9411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-history","category-people","category-student-life","tag-stoic","tag-students","tag-tv-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9411"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9436,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions\/9436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}