Exercise 10.1 - Solution

Sample answer.
The show grew from Intervilles, a French town-against-town games programme first broadcast in 1962 (Chapter 2). The international version began in 1965, with the legend of a suggestion by the French and German leaders treated as unproven (Chapter 3). In Britain It's a Knockout began on the BBC in 1966 and joined the European contest in 1967 (Chapter 7). Britain's last official year is usually given as 1982, Wales is reported to have taken part from 1991 to 1994, and later revivals have been shorter-lived than the original (Chapter 9).