'Oliver Postgate's world helped to shape my childhood..'
"I'm now a professional animator, and I think it is partly due to his influence that I chose this career path. His work lives on to inspire even more generations of children," writes Eleanor Leadbetter.
Did a TV programme you watched as a child inspire your career path? Do you work in the industry and have watched it change over the years?
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Not a childrens programme I know. But Smokey and The Bandit did it for me. Keep on Truckin'
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There was a programme that I had dimly remembered for years and always wondered if it had had an effect on my life.
No one I ever asked remembered it, until the glory of the internet came along and I googled it!
Turns out that at a probably far too young an age (7) I watched "Connections" by James Burke. All I remember was trying to keep track as the ideas flitted from one topic to another through some connection that I probably didn't understand.
To be honest I watched a lot of programmes that I was too young for as I have a brother who was 8 years older than me. Bit unfair competing with him while watching Mastermind and trying to get more than him in the general knowledge.... oh how the winter nights passed....).
Weirdly(?) the only person I ever came across who remembered it, was a few yeas ago and he - like me - is an "Information Architect".*
*couldn't find a definition of what I do that really 'gets' it, but this site is full of the stuff an IA does....
thnks god for good TV is all i say....
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In the days of one channel Tv, a regular feature was 'The Brains Trust'. Bronowski appeared frequently.As an unknowing child I was intrigued not so much by the content, which was clearly above my head, but more so by the amount of information that I needed to accumulate in my future life in order to understand these venerable people. The genre has been attempted in many forms since, primarily by the BBC - The Moral Maze being an example - unfortunately there is always lurking a time constraint which invariably leaves a subject frustratingly dangling. We have many able commentators available today and perhaps the BBC should give some thought to a resurrection of The Brains Trust for (say) an hour at an appropriate 'peak' viewing or listening time. It may prove equally inspirational to ambivalent youngsters.
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I remember Connections by James Burke. Henceforth you are not alone. I especially remember him auctioning a pound note where, as the auction progressed, people eventually started bidding over a pound for it. This was because of the rule that you had to pay what you bid even if it was a losing bid. Didn't he also have the experiment that attempted to reproduce the primordial conditions of Earth in a glass flask complete with miniature lightning and managing to produce amino acids?
All part of life's rich tapestry that included Tomorrow's World and Horizon.
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The danger in resurrecting Connections would be that bidders would now be offering less than a pound - by the minute.
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In 1966 I watched a BBC 1 play called "Cathy come home" and have worked in the international charity field ever since...I have never forgotten that play and it certainly had a influence me...
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