{"id":4699,"date":"2026-01-31T21:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/1957-british-sundays-should-we-have-more-freedom-panorama-voice-of-the-people-bbc-archive\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:10:37","slug":"1957-british-sundays-should-we-have-more-freedom-panorama-voice-of-the-people-bbc-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/1957-british-sundays-should-we-have-more-freedom-panorama-voice-of-the-people-bbc-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"1957: BRITISH SUNDAYS &#8211; Should We Have More FREEDOM? | Panorama | Voice of the People | BBC Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n62zZATx9Ts?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8220;For years the British Sunday has amazed foreigners, for years the British themselves have argued over it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Chataway reports on the British Sunday, when theatres, shops and restaurants are closed and most sporting events are prohibited. <\/p>\n<p>Some people &#8211; like actor Jack Warner, who is the president of the Sunday Freedom Association, a group advocating for reform of the Sunday Observance Act &#8211; want the laws relaxed, so that charitable events can take place on Sundays. Others &#8211; like Harold Leggerton, secretary of the Lord&#8217;s Day Observance Society &#8211; feel that, if anything, the current laws need to be stricter, to ensure that Sundays are preserved as a day of rest.<\/p>\n<p>Clip taken from Panorama, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Monday 30 September, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website &#8211; https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n62zZATx9Ts\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For years the British Sunday has amazed foreigners, for years the British themselves have argued over it.&#8221; Christopher Chataway reports on the British Sunday, when theatres, shops and restaurants are closed and most sporting events are prohibited. Some people &#8211; like actor Jack Warner, who is the president of the Sunday Freedom Association, a group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":4700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2032,9447,9448,9457,1023,1019,15,1022,9460,9449,1021,1020,9456,9454,9455,1026,1025,9461,1027,9459,9451,9458,9450,9452,9453,1024,1028],"class_list":["post-4699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-1950s","tag-1950s-britain","tag-1950s-britain-documentary","tag-1950s-life-uk","tag-archive","tag-archive-bbc","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-archive","tag-boring-sunday","tag-british-sunday","tag-british-tv-nostalgia","tag-classic-tv","tag-closed-on-a-sunday","tag-jack-warner","tag-jack-warner-interview","tag-legendary-television","tag-nostalgia","tag-old-british-laws","tag-retro-tv","tag-sunday-customs-uk","tag-sunday-laws-uk","tag-sunday-observance-act","tag-sunday-opening","tag-sunday-opening-laws-uk","tag-sunday-trading-laws-uk","tag-the-bbc-archive","tag-vintage","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}