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Also, for most of its first two decades, Newsround drew upon the BBC's network of national and international correspondents such as John Humphrys, Michael Buerk and Martin Bell. Newsround was the first British television programme to break the news of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986. This edition was presented by ...
TV Round: Teams alternated choosing clips from classic television shows on a video wall and answering questions about them. A miss gave the opposing team a chance to score with a correct answer. Quick-Fire Round: A speed round of questions, in which anyone from either team could buzz in. Video Wall: Same rules as the TV Round, but using news ...
The News Quiz was created by John Lloyd, [2] based on an idea by Nicholas Parsons. [3]The series was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman in the chair. Subsequently it was chaired by Barry Took from 1979 to 1981, Simon Hoggart from 1981 to 1986, Took again from 1986 to 1995, and then again by Hoggart from 1996 until March 2006. [4]
How well do you remember the news of the past 12 months? Part two covers April to June.
Guru-Murthy's career began in 1988 with the BBC's DEF II discussion programme Open to Question and the youth current-affairs programme Reportage. While at Oxford University he presented BBC2's Asian current-affairs programmes East and Network East. He presented and reported for children's news programme Newsround from 1991 to 1994.
The first Big Fat Quiz was broadcast on 27 December 2004. Louis Walsh, Nadia Almada and Dame Kelly Holmes all made live appearances to read out the answers for the months of March, June and August respectively. Recorded questions from Bono, Derren Brown and The Bear from Bo' Selecta! were shown too along with films of Richard and Judy ...
Hacker's Birthday Bash: 30 Years of Children's BBC; Hacker's CBBC Christmas Carol; Hacker's CBBC Top 10; Hacker's Crackers [29] Hacker's Olympic Rundown; Hai! Karate – Journey to Japan; Hairy Jeremy; Half Moon Investigations; The Hallo Spencer Show; Hangar 17; Hank Zipzer; Happy Families; Happy Tent Tales; Hardball; Hartbeat; Hard Spell Abbey ...
He is perhaps best known for having presented three quizzes for BBC television and radio for more than 15 years each, namely Ask The Family, Call My Bluff and Brain of Britain. He died in 2011. Michael Rodd – presenter on BBC Look North during the late 1960s – he also presented the BBC's coverage of early space shuttle launches.