This week marks 40 years since a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian Embassy in London, a pivotal moment in how we consume news If shots rang out on a London street today, the police would arrive, passers-by would take pictures on their phones and the story would be across social media in seconds, and on TV in a matter of minutes.
Immediately after, reporters would be going live, telling and repeating their story for many hours. However, on 30 April 1980, when shots did ring out in a London street around 11.30am, the police arrived within minutes, and sometime later a random phone call reached the BBC newsroom in Shepherd’s Bush, where the wonky ‘radio communications’ system squawked into action.
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