BBC Breakfast running a piece on it this morning. They used Dave Jeffery's old Flash anim from the BBC website to show the dots. Interview with the actor who played Wordy too
BBC Breakfast running a piece on it this morning. They used Dave Jeffery's old Flash anim from the BBC website to show the dots. Interview with the actor who played Wordy too
Don't suppose anybody captured it? The full BBC Breakfast isn't on iPlayer today.
BBC Breakfast running a piece on it this morning. They used Dave Jeffery's old Flash anim from the BBC website to show the dots. Interview with the actor who played Wordy too
This is brilliant! Nice to see it being celebrated
BBC Breakfast running a piece on it this morning. They used Dave Jeffery's old Flash anim from the BBC website to show the dots. Interview with the actor who played Wordy too
Don't suppose anybody captured it? The full BBC Breakfast isn't on iPlayer today.
Looking at that video clip, the music of which we hear the last few seconds at the end of the intro sequence (presumably the first incarnation of the pie chart / diamond / dots) was still being used in the earliest audio-only offair recording of BBC Schools which I've heard, from January 1961 - so no doubt it was the first tune to be used regularly a la "Guadalajara" in the later 1960s and early 1970s, and "Sara's Tune" (for primary programmes) and "A Tune for Lucy" (for secondary programmes) in the mid-1970s. There was, I think, another tune used in the mid-1960s - I've heard an audio recording with an announcement, probably by Meryl O'Keefe, apropos either the 1964 or 1966 elections.
Did the 'colour pie chart' ever actually exist, as some early pres websites claimed, or was it just false memories? I know the video of one from back in the day was a clever mock.
Pretty certain it was a mock created by Rory Clark. Don't think they ever had one in reality - remember that schools pres and programmes were in b&w well into the early 1970s (a surviving clip from November 1972 with Roger Maude announcing is certainly b&w - it has the BBC1 clock ident of the time but the word "Colour" removed).
The first school year with programmes for much of the day was 1960/61, I think - for the first three years you just had one or two programmes in the early afternoons. ITV Schools had actually started slightly earlier, in May 1957, but experimented quite a lot early on and took a while to reach a really coherent networked form. With the secondary programmes, I think there was an assumption that they would be used more in sec-mods because grammar schools were assumed to be snobbish about the medium, though others would know more about that than me.
