From: "Deborah Day" d.day@thefreeinternet.co.uk Subject: Re: [B7L] Atomic war Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 22:18:56 -0000

I had always assumed that Russia and America would fight it out across the Pacific or North Pole - after all, why go across Europe when the two countries are actually adjacent round that side?

If they fight across Europe, then other countries can get all the side-effects - friendly fire, debris and the rest. This is assuming a conflict using so-called 'conventional' (i.e. non-nuclear) weapons.

It's only because all the maps have America on the left and Europe etc on the right and we tend to think that that is the way of the world - not may maps have the Pacific in the middle.

European-produced maps have Europe in the middle.

Maps produced for other countries tend to have their own areas in the middle. For example, a Japanese world map will have Japan in the middle. It looks weird, because we Europeans tend to see our own area's maps.

From: Tavia tavia@btinternet.com Subject: Re: [B7L] Thatcher v Servalan

I also wonder precisely when Channel 4 started, and when it became popular (I seem to recall a few years of initial lull).

It had a few years of initial lull, because massive chunks of the country were unable to receive it. It's a bit like Channel 5 in that respect, but they seem to be dragging their heels on that one.

We were lucky (or unlucky?) - we got Channel 4 on the first day, clear as a bell, in glorious black & white! (It would have been in colour, but we only had a black & white set. We got our first colour set in 1987 - my parents were waiting to see if colour television would be popular!

(But then was B7 first shown on beeb1 ?? I can't remember.)

Blakes 7 was indeed shown exclusively on BBC1. It was on Monday evenings at 8.10pm (as far as I remember); the fourth series I seem to recall was switched to Saturdays (at about 6pm?)

Wildean