Wednesday, April 01, 2009

The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest

The best April Fools story of all time was the 1957 BBC Swiss Spaghetti Harvest documentary.

In that staid manner that only the BBC, the old BBC, could pull off, the Brits produced a gem. Broadcast on the respected news program Panorama enhance believability, narration by the most authoritative in Britain, Richard Dimbleby, clinched the deal.

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