Langleybury on BBC Going Places in 1975

BBC One’s Going Places, episode 12, first broadcast at 22:10 on 5 August 1975, included Barry Norman covering Langleybury against Isleham in the Haig Village Cricket Championships. The BBC’s own programme listing is the primary evidence for that broadcast. BBC programme listing.

Match date and broadcast date

The Hunton Bridge match index places the sixth-round Langleybury–Isleham tie on 13 July 1975. The programme aired more than three weeks later. A search result or film catalogue using 5 August is therefore describing the transmission date, not necessarily the day the cricket was played. Ground match index.

The distinction is especially useful when comparing match photographs, newspaper reports and television schedules.

What the listing establishes

The complete programme is listed as 30 minutes, with other subjects as well as the cricket. Thirty minutes should not be described as the length of the Langleybury segment. The listing identifies the presenter, subject and broadcast; the footage has not been watched or analysed for this archive. BBC episode record.

It would therefore be premature to describe individual shots, identify players visible on screen, or claim that the programme contains a full recording of the match. Availability through a linked player may also change independently of the historical listing.

Why the broadcast matters

The listing places Langleybury within a national television account of village cricket in the mid-1970s. It sits alongside the club’s documented National Village campaigns, which include later semi-finals in 1977, 1979 and 1983.

For future research, footage could be compared with dated team lists and ground photographs. Any reproduction would need a valid rights basis. This archive links to the BBC record and does not host or embed an unauthorised copy of the programme.