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Gloria Was There for Apollo 7. And Sydney. And 1311.

October 11: Apollo 7, Sydney's first university, Ordinances of 1311. The whole segment, as it aired. What happened on this date, retold by people who were not there.

On air
Gloria Vance and Chip Darnell
Aired
on Best of BBN
Length
0:37
“That's seven hundred years. Round it to seven hundred and fifteen?”
Chip Darnell, BBN
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Transcript

What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

  1. Chip DarnellOn this day in nineteen sixty-eight, NASA launched Apollo Seven, the first successful crewed Apollo mission, according to Wikipedia.

  2. Gloria VanceI was on the viewing stand. The coffee was terrible.

  3. Chip DarnellGloria, you'd have been a kid.

  4. Gloria VanceEighteen fifty-two. The University of Sydney opens as Australia's oldest. I remember the ribbon. Slightly crooked.

  5. Chip DarnellSo you're a hundred and seventy-something.

  6. Gloria VanceThirteen eleven. The peerage and clergy restrict the English kings with the Ordinances. I took notes.

  7. Chip DarnellThat's seven hundred years. Round it to seven hundred and fifteen?

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