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Tonight's viewing has been It started with Swap Shop - a look back at 30 years of Saturday morning kids' telly. It did begin with programmes from somewhat before my time, but it was fun to see how it all started. The real nostalgia for me began with Going Live! - as well as being unmissable at the time for me and my sister, my great aunt used to work at the switchboard at the BBC and snuck us in to Studio 7 one morning on a trip to London. Sarah Greene came and chatted to me while The Chipmunks was on and Kylie was rehearsing in the studio.
Then there was the start of the very first Live & Kicking. If you ignore the silly VR cat, the theme tune (which still excites me a bit) and the pinball smashing its way through Televison Centre are pretty brilliant, especially when you're 13. And there were bits of Mitch (with whom I got very drunk a few years ago), and Trevor and Simon (they don't do duvets).
I think programmes like these are partly responsible for getting me interested in working in telly in the first place. They showed off Television Centre as an exciting place full of famous people. They didn't do that television thing of pretending they weren't in a TV studio, and instead showed you what was behind the camera, and wandered around the place. They had fun. It gave me all sorts of ideas for fun things to do when I was making silly TV programmes at our student TV station... which eventually somehow led to me getting a job where I do exciting techie things, in that very same building.
And I get a bit of a buzz when I walk into work in the mornings across that big circular courtyard, past the doors to studios 3 and 4, and into the room that makes it all go on air. Tis cool.
Then there was the start of the very first Live & Kicking. If you ignore the silly VR cat, the theme tune (which still excites me a bit) and the pinball smashing its way through Televison Centre are pretty brilliant, especially when you're 13. And there were bits of Mitch (with whom I got very drunk a few years ago), and Trevor and Simon (they don't do duvets).
I think programmes like these are partly responsible for getting me interested in working in telly in the first place. They showed off Television Centre as an exciting place full of famous people. They didn't do that television thing of pretending they weren't in a TV studio, and instead showed you what was behind the camera, and wandered around the place. They had fun. It gave me all sorts of ideas for fun things to do when I was making silly TV programmes at our student TV station... which eventually somehow led to me getting a job where I do exciting techie things, in that very same building.
And I get a bit of a buzz when I walk into work in the mornings across that big circular courtyard, past the doors to studios 3 and 4, and into the room that makes it all go on air. Tis cool.