Going Nationwide

A few weeks ago, I had an email on my work account from Paul Lee. He's a writer and researcher interested in various topics, who I don't really know as such but with whom I'd previously had a very small amount of contact online regarding archive television matters. TV history being one of his areas of interest.One of his other areas of interest is the topic of ghosts, and he had emailed to send me a press release about a discovery he'd made. Not about ghosts, as such, but about a report into them - a report broadcast on the BBC's famous Nationwide programme in 1972, but which hadn't been seen since. Of course, any story involving the digging up of a bit of TV history is always going to be of interest to me, and as this one involved Norfolk it meant that I could do a bit on it for work.What Paul had been able to do was to establish roughly when the Nationwide report had been broadcast, and arrange to go to the British Film Institute in London to look through their holdings of the…