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Update and potential suspect

Tommie Trelawney investigated and produced an eight-part podcast (under the name 'Archive) in 2022 on the Southern Television broadcast interruption and found the transmission to have been carried out by Bob Tomalski, a journalist, "gadget guru" and broadcaster. Reference: https://stak.london/shows/the-interruption/ 213.31.253.37 (talk) 17:43, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The podcast has been mentioned before in a now archived section. It falls under wikipedia's definition of a questionable source and thus should not be used as the sole source for such a claim. Endlesspumpkin (talk) 20:43, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd forgotten about that. It was decided that it was, ultimately, self published with no credible media coverage so couldn't be used. doktorb _words^deeds 22:32, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Re-creation?

I thought that recording was just a recreation. 2800:200:ED40:1154:89D0:BC8:2C80:3611 (talk) 19:00, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, there’s no chain of custody so we don’t know if it’s the real thing or not. The audio quality is pretty good so it sounds like it came straight out of the TV studio console if it’s real. What gets me is how dumb the message is. This is straight out of a 1950s B movie script, even for the 1970s. Viriditas (talk) 00:23, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]