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Podcast: Witness History
Episode: Ceefax: the start of interactive television
Description: In 1974, the BBC launched the world's first teletext service.It provided information, like news and weather, through our TV screens, whenever users wanted, at the push of a button.Rachel Naylor speaks to Angus McIntyre, son of the late Colin McIntyre, Ceefax's first editor. Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all...