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|broadcast=1999 | |broadcast=26 November 1999 | ||
|producers=[[Peter Bowles]] | |producers=[[Peter Bowles]] | ||
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The weeks leading up to the night were a bit fraught with minimal ticket sales and problems with Ents equipment being booked up elsewhere, and there were even brief discussions about calling it off. | The weeks leading up to the night were a bit fraught with minimal ticket sales and problems with Ents equipment being booked up elsewhere, and there were even brief discussions about calling it off. | ||
This was alongside controversy surrounding publicity for the event. Peter persuaded a female fresher called Holly {{unsure|surname}} to be wheeled around campus in a pool of baked beans wearing a bikini accompanied by people with collection buckets. It was all filmed for a VT that would go out on the night. However, the Women's Officers objected to Peter's subsequent posters featuring a picture of Holly alongside the caption - "She's been naughty! See her punished!" Articles in Nouse and Vision followed. | This was alongside controversy surrounding publicity for the event. Peter persuaded a female fresher called Holly {{unsure|surname}} to be wheeled around campus in a pool of baked beans wearing a bikini accompanied by people with collection buckets. It was all filmed for a VT that would go out on the night. However, the Women's Officers objected to Peter's subsequent posters featuring a picture of Holly alongside the caption - "She's been naughty! See her punished!" Articles in [[Nouse]] and [[Vision]] followed. | ||
However despite all that, Peter's determination that Big Fun would succeed was proved right - with Peter completely in his element compering the night's entertainment. | However despite all that, Peter's determination that Big Fun would succeed was proved right - with Peter completely in his element compering the night's entertainment. | ||
