Points of View

The NewsWatch piece on Breakfast was just as bad. They let the complainer claim that the new Salford studio was built especially for Breakfast and was only being used for Breakfast and how wasteful it was! Never once did they point out that it is also NWT's studio.

Yes and yes, I had wondered about the end animation as well...

But, even despite no form up using the stop motion letters, quite possibly the most creative title sequence for Points of View, and a wonderfully quirky sig tune from Elizabeth Parker to boot!

Should that not be longer? its used to have a nice 10mins slot on Wednesday until 1998 when the mid week lotto draw appear.

When was it revamped on Sundays with Wogan? 2001?

I thought it got moved to Sunday in 1999 when Wogan appear?

It used to be on as near as dammit all year round, usually on a Wednesday (in 1992 it was even on in Christmas week) but from 1993 it used to shuffle around the nights a bit depending when it would fit - I remember it being on Tuesdays and Fridays - and that was also the first time I remember it going off for several weeks when they had no fifty minute programmes in the schedule. When the midweek lottery draw started in 1997 it was cut down to five minutes and didn't even have a proper starting time billed in the Radio Times - the lottery was at eight, then there were Two Ronnies repeats at 8.15, "followed by" Points of View. That was around the time Anne went on holiday and never came back. But seemingly that lottery scheduling was a pain in the arse and they couldn't fit many other shows to fit so PoV got extended to fifteen minutes so that and the lottery would fill half an hour.

Guest presenters did it for a while and Carol Vorderman did it for a few months and then in mid-1998 it went on the longest break I can ever remember, not coming back until early 1999 - now on a Thursday, following Harbour Lights, the Nick Berry vehicle, with Des Lynam in charge. That was its last outing in primetime though as after a summer break (during which Des left the Beeb), it came back in the autumn on Sunday afternoons with Wogan.

It is wonderful isn't it - I presume it had the brief of representing lots of different views as it does sound like at least four different tunes mashed together!

Strange thing was it was back on Wednesdays during 1996 still paired with "How do they do that", but when mr Eamonn Holme took over in in 1997 it was moved to a nice 30mins slot, there mist a trick.

Strange thing was Carol Vorderman was on twice an hour, some times as she also did the show: Mysteries with Carol Vorderman, she finished doing the series in September 98 I believe.

Heres one of Anna first outing in 87 complaining about DW
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I have to ask why was the series dropped in 1971 and why was it brought back in 1979? was there any major upset that made them bring it back?

Best version of the lot:

They wouldn't know! there would be nowhere to write in and express disgust at a programme being dropped

No, it came back in London only because - in the days before London did their own regional shows - they were showing Bilko in the Friday 10.15 regional spot but it was only 25 minutes long so they brought back Points of View to fill the other five minutes. It was networked again the following year. As for why it ended in 1971, I've got a Radio Times from 1981 where they celebrate its twentieth anniversary and Kenneth Robinson, who was fronting it at the time, suggests they took it off because it was becoming too disrepectful and the Beeb were sick of it. Certainly Kenneth says when he was in charge he just made the show irreverent, laughing at the correspondents and the Beeb. We should have that attitude these days.

I have to ask why you start every post with "I have to ask"?

Is any chance you give me the date? As I then be able to look it up directly once all radio times arw on line.