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| ADAM ANT INTERVIEW - SWAP SHOP 1981 |
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Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, more commonly known
simply as Swap Shop, was a UK children's
television programme. It was broadcast on
Saturday mornings on BBC One for 146 episodes
in six series between October 2 1976 and
March 27 1982. It was ground-breaking in many
ways: by being live, sometimes up to three
hours in length, and using the phone-in
format extensively for the first time on TV.
Its creation was thought by many to be the
BBC's response to the growing success of
ITV's Tiswas - although at the time the
latter was only broadcast in the ATV region
in the Midlands and had yet to be taken up by
other ITV franchises around the country.
The anchor was Noel Edmonds and his
associates from the beginning were Keith
Chegwin, John Craven and later, in 1978,
Maggie Philbin. The show's presenters formed
a pop group called Brown Sauce in December
1981 before releasing a single called I Wanna
Be A Winner. Soon after the group's
formation, the song peaked at #15 in the UK
Singles Chart and stayed in the Top 75 for a
total of 3 months.
Also featured was Posh Paws, a stuffed toy
dinosaur. Noel Edmonds once explained that
his name was actually spelled "Pohs Paws"
(sic), because that is "Swap Shop" backwards.
Another character was Eric, the
often-referred to but never seen lighting
technician whose job was to lower a plastic
globe containing postcards sent in by viewers
as answers to competitions.
The content of the programme included music,
visits from celebrities, competitions, and
cartoons. There was also coverage of news and
issues relevant to children presented by John
Craven, building on his profile as a
newsreader elsewhere on BBC Children's
output.
The cornerstone, however, was the Swaporama
element, hosted by Chegwin, who was very
rarely in the studio. An outside broadcast
unit would travel to different locations
throughout the country where children could
swap their belongings with others. This
proved to be one of the most popular aspects
of the show, often achieving gatherings of
more than 2,000 children. Often, as an
economy measure, the primary purpose of the
BBC OB unit was to broadcast a sporting event
at that Swaporama venue later that day.
The telephone number for the first series of
the show was 01 288 8055. This number was
also used for many other BBC phone-in events,
with the result that on one occasion a young
caller trying to reach Swap Shop instead got
through to a phone-in with the then Prime
Minister James Callaghan.[1] From the second
series onwards the programme had its own
number - 01 811 8055.[2]
Swap Shop was a success, attracting
substantial ratings not only among its target
audience of children, but also students and
parents. It ended in 1982, to allow the
presenters to move on to other projects -
notably Edmonds, who became one of the
highest-profile TV presenters in the UK. It
was replaced by a series of similar
programmes, most notably Saturday Superstore,
Going Live! and Live & Kicking.
Unfortunately many editions of the show were
junked by the BBC in the early 1990s,
believed to be of no further use, and many of
the clips used in the retrospective It
Started With Swap Shop and as extras on some
DVD releases of other BBC shows had to be
taken from domestic video recordings that had
survived in private hands. Amongst the
editions wiped were those featuring
appearances by Blondie, XTC, Trumpton creator
Gordon Murray, and numerous cast and crew
members of Doctor Who.
[edit] It Started With Swap Shop
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Durée : 536 s |
| Israel, Hezbollah Begin Prison Swap |
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SelectPlusIsrael, Hezbollah Begin Prison
SwapIsrael, Hezbollah Begin Prison SwapThe
Associated PressFive Lebanese prisoners were
taken from an Israeli prison Wednesday and
driven towards a border crossing with
Lebanon, where they are still awaiting
release while the remains of two Israeli
soldiers are being identified. (July 16)Two
coffins for five prisoners.That was just part
of a high-stakes swap Wednesday morning....In
a deal worked out between Israel and
Hezbollah -- and mediated by the United
Nations.SOT: Red CrossInside the coffins? ---
what are believed to be the remains of two
former Israeli soldiers, snatched by Lebanese
guerillas in July of 2006.A capture that
triggered a deadly, month-long war between
Israel and Lebanon.SOTIf D-N-A confirms the
identities of the soldiers ---- Israel says
these five Lebanese prisoners will be
released And that they'd also hand over the
bodies of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinian
fighters killed in clashes over the years.
SOTThe five prisoners were expected to
receive a hero's welcome as they returned to
Lebanon....Including this man --- Samir
Kantar -- who was convicted almost 30 years
ago in one of the most brutal attacks Israel
has ever seen.SOT: VOX POP Lebanese woman
holding portrait of Kantar in 70'sIsrael says
they long suspected that the two kidnapped
soldiers were dead --- but Hezbollah had
never confirmed their conditions.Now that
it's finally known --- family members and
local residents say they're glad the ordeal
was coming to an endSOT Shlomo Goldwasser,
father of captive soldier: In a way I feel
happiness that this is coming to an end.SOT:
Local ResidentThis is not the first time
Israel has been willing to work a
controversial deal to return its troops. In
1985, they released 11 hundred and 50
Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners for the
return of three captured soldiers. ___
___, The Associated Press.
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| Derren Brown - Person swap experiment |
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Psychological magician Derren Brown recreates
a psychological experiment[1] where a person
is asking a test subject for directions when
some guys carrying a large painting cuts
between them. The asking person is then
switched and the aim is to see if the test
subject recognizes the switch. Surprisingly
they rarely recognize that another person
emerges from behind the painting. This works
by first focusing the test subjects attention
on the problem of finding the directions, not
on Derren and how he looks, secondly the
switch is performed outside of the view of
the test subject. Now, the test subject
(consciously and subconsciously) assumes that
the same person will emerge behind the
painting, and since not enough information
has been stored in memory about Derrens
looks, the test subjects mind subconsciously
assumes and recreates a memory that it is the
same person [2].
[1] D. J. Simons and D. T. Levin "Failure to
Detect Changes to People in Real-World
Interaction," Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
5:644-49 (1998).
[2] D. Gilbert "Stumbling on Happiness",
Vintage Books 2006.
Tags : Derren Brown psychology mind control |
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