The BBC Song list

[vilakins]

communicator made a list of everything mentioned in Mitch Benn's song: 148 TV and radio shows and people. Awww, they drew a little Liberator on the Blake's 7 card. :-D

OK, I don't live in the UK which is going to skew things a lot, but we buy a lot of BBC programmes here (even though the BBC won't let me onto the sites of those we buy).

I've italicised the programmes (and people) I've watched or listened to, bolded the ones I love, and struck out those I've never heard of.

Newsround
Newsnight
iPlayer
Website
Toni Arthur
Brian Cant
Spooks
Adam Adamant
Postman Pat
Blackadder
Hancock
Yes Minister
Later with Jools Holland
Pride and Prejudice
Hitchikers Guide
World service
Stuart Lee
Mr Benn
Casualty
6 Music
Glastonbury
Horrible Histories
Dennis Potter
C-Beebies
Quatermass
Two Ronnies
The Thick of It
Radio 3
Open University
Mark Kermode
Simon Mayo
Round the Horne
Goon Show
Blakes 7
Dick and Dom
Last Night of the Proms
Gardeners' Question Time
Last of the Summer Wine
Steptoe and Son
Clangers
The Young Ones
Edge of Darkness
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Letter from America
The Mighty Boosh
QI
Panorama
Bagpuss
I Claudius
Absolutely Fabulous
John Motson
Red Dwarf
Our friends in the North
Culture Show
Woman's Hour
Charlie and Lola
Alan Partridge
Sherlock
News at 6 o'clock
Live Aid
Likely Lads
Michael Palin
No ads
This Life
That's life
Life on earth
The good life
Captain Pugwash
Tony Hart
Til Death do us Part
Ken Bruce
News Quiz
Keeping Up Appearances
Outnumbered
Miranda
Who do you think you are
Kirsty Wark
Jeremy Paxman
Parkinson
Wogan
Tripods
Fireman Sam
The Ascent of Man
One foot in the grave
Xander (Armstrong) and Ben (Miller)
Rob (Webb) and Dave (Mitchell)
Antiques Roadshow
David Attenborough
Bruce Forsyth
The League of Gentlemen
Have I got news for you
Hairy Bikers
Being Human
In the Night garden
Have I got news for you
You & Me
Me & You
Monty Python
Doctor Who
Top Gear
Merlin
Ivor the Engine
Watchdog
Wimbledon
Springwatch
Formula 1
Blue Peter
Swap Shop
Five Live
Top of the Pops
Trumpton
The Archers
That Was The Week That Was
The Goodies
Songs of Praise
World at One
The Day Today
Sorry I haven't a Clue
Not the Nine O'Clock News
Nationwide
Mr Men
East Enders
Bottom
Gary Lineker
Radio 1
Radio 2
Ripping Yarns
Johnny Ball
Test Match Special
Bergerac
Perfect Day
Radio Active
Howard's Way
Jeremy Hardy
Final Score
(everything on) BBC4
Only Fools (and Horses)
Sky at Night
Shooting Stars
Pete and Dud
Teletubbies
Life on Mars
Radcliffe and Maconie
Jackanory
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Children in Need Appeal
Douglas Adams
John Peel

On second thoughts, it may have been only our version of That Was The Week That Was that I've seen, but I'll leave it there since it was based on the BBC concept.

Comments

[zoefruitcake]

Most of the people are presenters or DJs, like Brian Cant used to present children's programmes in the 70s, and Ken Bruce does a show in the mornings on Radio 2.
I adore Horrible Histories (I watched it last night) it is designed to get children interested in the more disgusting or amusing parts of history - I posted a video once, I don't know if you can see it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPtYmq5qFVA
Armstrong and Miller and Mitchell and Webb are very funny comedy duos, but they are actors as well so you may have seen them crop up in other things.
The Hairy Bikers are fab, two big bears of hairy men on motorbikes who go around the country and the world cooking on the go - I fancy them both rotten ;0)
Who do you think you are follows famous people finding out their family tree, so naturally I love that

[vilakins]

The Hairy Bikers sound great! I've heard of "Who do you think you are" now you mention it because I heard Stephen Fry was on it and it was very moving.

[zoefruitcake]

Oh they are great :0) Their recent series was going around and collecting old family recipes

The Stephen Fry episode was very moving indeed, most people cried.

[vilakins]

My favourite cooking programme here is a local guy who does that, and then does his own take on the recipe at the end. It's wonderful because the recipes are very often ones my mother or friends' mothers made, part of my past and our culture. :-) I hope they do another series soon.

[zoefruitcake]

that sounds good, it's very easy for traditional recipes to be lost

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

So you don't know the news programmes and their presenters, children's presenters and their programmes and edgy comedians. Seems reasonable.

the iPlayer is Listen Again for TV. And you'd have loved Johnny Ball's stuff.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yep, we have our own for all of those.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

And now I've actually watched it I want someone to produce a list of all those programmes mention in the last verse without captions. They included Z Cars and Eric (Morecambe)& Ernie (Wise).

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I know those two!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

jekesta introduced me to Horrible Histories (I found some on You Tube) they're wonderful!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've seen the books and often read them in the book shop. :-)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

The video versions are fantastic. :^) I can't decide which are my favorites- perhaps the series of bios of English royalty. The singing Tudors... oh, yes. And the four Georges!

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

The four Georges rock!

[muscadinegril.livejournal.com]

We adore the BBC. There are shows that aren't listed that my kids are growing up on, like Wallace and Gromit and Sean the Sheep (CBeebies covers those, I suppose). And there's Ashes to Ashes and Are You Being Served? and all the great Mystery shows and Elizabeth R and...and...

The BBC needs to live forever. What would there be to watch without it?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

We have DVDs of all the Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep series. :-D I remember Elizabeth R if that was the one with Glenda Jackson. It was superb; I would watch that again. I need to get out the I Claudius DVDs because Greg's never seen it.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

That's excellent! I must confess that not only hadn't I heard that song before but I hadn't even heard of Mitch Benn.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I hadn't before today either!

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

I read through the list and just kept the ones I have seen through the years.


Spooks
Adam Adamant
Blackadder
Yes Minister
Pride and Prejudice
Hitchikers Guide
Blakes 7
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
I Claudius
Absolutely Fabulous
Red Dwarf
Live Aid
Monty Python
Doctor Who
Top Gear
Merlin
Top of the Pops
East Enders
Howard's Way
Teletubbies
Life on Mars
A Bit of Fry and Laurie

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

My score for things I've watched or listened to was 40. :-)