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BBC Children In Need 2001

(November 2001)

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JA
james2001 Founding member
Just wondering, was Nicky S one of them Very Happy
GM
nodnirG kraM
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After watching the BBC Newsreader dance thing again, I noticed that Peter Sissons was dancing like how everybody's dad does usually at a wedding.  Highly embarrassing.  

I wonder why there was no Huw ?  Who do you reckon put in the best performance ?

I think it must be the law to dance like that at weddings and make a total tit of yourself for the video! No other explanation!!

I was going to say that I was unable to have my Welsh fix on Friday - no Mr Edwards! And where was our Nicky!? Was he the person in the Pudsy costume coming out of the lift at the end!?

I think the best has to have been Jenny Bond with her energetic tap dancing!The lamest must have been courtesy of Jeremy Bowen .. but we didn't expect more of him than that did we!! (Sorry Jeremy!)  Michael Buerk deserves a mention too!

Does anyone know when this was filmed? Because it was shown on trailers for the week preceding CIN, but it couldn't have been made during the New York thingumybobs etc surely.  Ho hum.

(Edited by nodnirG kraM at 2:12 pm on Nov. 18, 2001)


(Edited by nodnirG kraM at 2:14 pm on Nov. 18, 2001)
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Martin Founding member
peprice posted:
tom posted:
When I do my BBC Tour of TV Cente in the next few months, will I be able to visit their shop or not?


The one in the picture above is visited by studio audience members while they wait to go into a studio. You may well walk past The Foyer on your tour but I doubt they will take you directly there. Strangely, the TVC tour does not involve a visit to a BBC Shop, unlike most other public visits to BBC places...

There is a BBC Shop in Broadcasting House, just off The Strand in central London.

Peter.


Ive been on a tour on two occasions, the first we were given 5 minutes in the shop to buy anything or just have a look at the end of the tour, the second time because the rest of the visitors were mostly girls from a brighton school (and very nice they were to!) we didnt pass the shop but on request the guide was very nice in taking us to the shop ourselves after the tour finished.

I think if you ask they will take you.
JA
james2001 Founding member
I know the BBC Shop and cafe in boradcasting house are open to the public. When I went though, I was on a school trip to the BBC experience- a 3 hour drive but worth it. I will definatally go on a TVc tour int he future.
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Whataday Founding member
BBC Wales viewers missed Celebrity 15 to1 and Blue Peter do eurovision, and the telephone number on screen was different in Wales at all times, not just in an opt out. The telephone number was black on a yellow background, and it had a Pudsey picture by the side.
MA
Marcus Founding member
Martin posted:
peprice posted:
tom posted:
When I do my BBC Tour of TV Cente in the next few months, will I be able to visit their shop or not?


The one in the picture above is visited by studio audience members while they wait to go into a studio. You may well walk past The Foyer on your tour but I doubt they will take you directly there. Strangely, the TVC tour does not involve a visit to a BBC Shop, unlike most other public visits to BBC places...

There is a BBC Shop in Broadcasting House, just off The Strand in central London.

Peter.


Ive been on a tour on two occasions, the first we were given 5 minutes in the shop to buy anything or just have a look at the end of the tour, the second time because the rest of the visitors were mostly girls from a brighton school (and very nice they were to!) we didnt pass the shop but on request the guide was very nice in taking us to the shop ourselves after the tour finished.

I think if you ask they will take you.


What do you actually get to see on the tour?
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Martin Founding member
Martin posted:

Ive been on a tour on two occasions, the first we were given 5 minutes in the shop to buy anything or just have a look at the end of the tour, the second time because the rest of the visitors were mostly girls from a brighton school (and very nice they were to!) we didnt pass the shop but on request the guide was very nice in taking us to the shop ourselves after the tour finished.

I think if you ask they will take you.


What do you actually get to see on the tour?[/quote]

You get a quick glimps of the news gathering centre then onto a studio, whatever one is available to see how it really looks, on my first tour we then got into the gallary to see how the shows are made but on the second tour we got to see the Blue Peter garden and the back of CBBC - depends on your luck really and I agree with what the BBC say on the website - no tour is ever the same

I wrote at greater length about my first visit and it was on TV Home in the features section which has still to be uploaded and I dont have the file anymore.
PE
peprice
When I went we looked round the News department then onto the Studio 6 gallery. Studio 6 was filled with the set of Chambers but recording had actually finished so we were able to sit at the gallery desks.

After that we went to the viewing gallery of Studio 1 and got to see the Blue Peter team getting ready to go live at 5 o'clock. Nick, our guide, was a great bloke but unfortunalty had to dash off at 5pm so I didn't actually get to see Blue Peter go live - not that I'm complaining - just to see the studio was fantastic!

In short, TVC is a fantastic place and the tour is worth every penny.

Oh, and they will tell you the history of the BBC and the building itself and hundreds of other interesting facts (and BBC gossip!). Smile

Peter.
NG
noggin Founding member
james2001 posted:
I know the BBC Shop and cafe in boradcasting house are open to the public. When I went though, I was on a school trip to the BBC experience- a 3 hour drive but worth it. I will definatally go on a TVc tour int he future.


Just so people don't turn up in the hope of a cuppa, I think the BBC Cafe, which was in the basement bit of the BBC shop at Broadcasting House has now been closed. It was shut a little while after the BBC Experience was closed.
JA
james2001 Founding member
Was BBC Experience closed? It was only July when I went!
MA
Martin Founding member
james2001 posted:
Was BBC Experience closed? It was only July when I went!


I think it was closed in July/August as part of the redevolpment of Broadcasting House.
MA
Marcus Founding member
Martin posted:
james2001 posted:
Was BBC Experience closed? It was only July when I went!


I think it was closed in July/August as part of the redevolpment of Broadcasting House.


Maybe it was something u said James

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