{"id":8280,"date":"2019-11-26T09:03:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T08:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=8280"},"modified":"2019-11-26T09:03:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T08:03:29","slug":"op-soc-1-operetta-marathon-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/op-soc-1-operetta-marathon-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Op Soc 1 &#8211; Operetta Marathon: 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back on 1st May 1982 there was a Gilbert and Sullivan marathon taking place in the Union Concert Hall. Starting at 12 noon a constant stream of over 50 people battled through 28 hours of singing all 13 Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. In the process they collected over \u00a32000 for the Save the Children Fund. Tracy Poole was there at 4pm to report for STOIC&#8217;s Newsbreak programme.<\/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\/e7zVAx1tSjA?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 November 2019<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on 1st May 1982 there was a Gilbert and Sullivan marathon taking place in the Union Concert Hall.<\/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":[53,82],"tags":[11291,212,975,89],"class_list":["post-8280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-student-life","tag-music","tag-stoic","tag-student-union","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Op Soc 1 - Operetta Marathon: 1982 - Imperial College Video Archive Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/op-soc-1-operetta-marathon-1982\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Op Soc 1 - Operetta Marathon: 1982 - Imperial College Video Archive Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Back on 1st May 1982 there was a Gilbert and Sullivan marathon taking place in the Union Concert Hall.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/op-soc-1-operetta-marathon-1982\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Imperial College Video Archive Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-26T08:03:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Colin Grimshaw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Colin Grimshaw\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\\\/videoarchive\\\/op-soc-1-operetta-marathon-1982\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\\\/videoarchive\\\/op-soc-1-operetta-marathon-1982\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Colin Grimshaw\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\\\/videoarchive\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4311976ffc5be7f49bbc628f4d3e591e\"},\"headline\":\"Op Soc 1 &#8211; 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