Power failure during cricket
Broadcast
1992
© BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
A major blackout in Canterbury has put paid to the BBC's cricket coverage and it's left to announcer David Miles to keep us informed. While the viewers hear pleasant music over the slide it's chaos behind the scenes – to the untrained ear, David might come over as bumbling. But he's actually relaying information to us as quickly as he's receiving it in his headphones. We join the chaos as we emerge from the music to discover we can't go back to Canterbury – so instead here's a standby programme.