Witness History: Archive 2014 - The BBC Spaghetti Hoax

On April 1st 1957 a team of BBC journalists played an April Fool's joke on the British public. They used a serious news programme to air a feature about the 'harvesting' of spaghetti in Switzerland.

Published on Tuesday, 1st April 2014.

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