
Munich Remembered
On February 6, 1958, a British European Airways flight carrying Manchester United's players home from a European Cup match in Belgrade crashed on takeoff after refueling in Munich, killing 23 people, including eight of the team known as the Busby Babes. This Granada Television programme, made for the disaster's 30th anniversary in 1988, revisits the crash through the people who lived through it and its aftermath in Manchester and English football. It sits squarely in the tradition of British regional television marking a local tragedy with national weight, the kind of anniversary broadcast built on interviews and archival material rather than reenactment. There is no dramatization here, just a station returning to a story that shaped the club and the city for three decades afterward. The programme's value now is partly historical record, partly a snapshot of how television itself chose to remember Munich a generation on.