{"id":8092,"date":"2019-09-15T11:49:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T10:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=8092"},"modified":"2019-09-15T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T10:49:51","slug":"boat-club-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/boat-club-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat Club: 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 8 October 1980 edition of STOIC&#8217;s Newsbreak programme, they featured the Imperial College Boat Club. Still in the days of black and white, reporter Jim Donaldson ventured down the road to the Putney Boathouse. From the top of the building Jim reported on what he was seeing and we get to watch the then novices going out onto the water. Maybe you were one of them?<\/p>\n<p>This is yet another video rescued during the ongoing project to digitise the archive of STOIC and has not been seen since first broadcast 39 years ago.<\/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\/By5OmRCBHqY?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 September 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>39 years ago in October 1980 STOIC&#8217;s Jim Donaldson reported on the Boat Club down at the Putney Boathouse.<\/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":[82],"tags":[280,212,89],"class_list":["post-8092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life","tag-sport","tag-stoic","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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