{"id":7930,"date":"2019-05-03T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2019-05-03T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:44:18","slug":"union-rag-fete-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/union-rag-fete-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Rag Fete: 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we have a Flashback to 33 years ago. On the 26 April 1986 the Imperial College Student Union held their annual Rag Fete. That year it was opened by TVam&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anne_Diamond\">Anne Diamond<\/a>. STOIC was there to capture the event and to chat to Anne Diamond and also, the then Rector, Sir Eric Ash. STOIC broadcast this video on Thursday 1 May 1986.<\/p>\n<p>The fete raised around \u00a32000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VDqGrJ2vCH8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw May 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 26 April 1986 Anne Diamond, then on TVam, opened the Imperial College Union rag fete&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79,53,82],"tags":[7526,212,975,89],"class_list":["post-7930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus","category-events","category-student-life","tag-queens-tower","tag-stoic","tag-student-union","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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