What did you think of the show? (31/10/2008)
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On our special Halloween edition of The One Show, Adrian and Christine were joined on the sofa by Frank 'scary' Skinner.
On the programme: With the American elections looming Andrew Neil shed some light on what it means for us.
Earlier in the week we asked for your scary photos (an example, pictured left) and you've been sending them in in your droves. Some were shown on the show, click here to see more in our scary faces gallery.Dominic Littlewood offered his advice to tackle internet phishing, one of the biggest online banking scams. Have you fallen prey to one of these schemes?
Angelica Bell investigated the story of Helen Duncan. Duncan was a medium and mother of six who was the last woman to be imprisoned under the 1735 Witchcraft Act.
And we were joined by Christine Walkden and a massive pumpkin!
Have a spooky weekend!
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brian
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Please can you pay Andrew Neill more money, to stop him looking like a bag man in New York! What a sight! Please can he be educated to fly the flag for British fashion.
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And what a surprise from the neutral and impartial BBC! Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin is held up for a good kicking by Frank Skinner (cue much laughter from hosts), but as soon as he makes a mild comment ('He looks like Gary Lineker in some lights') about the Obamessiah, the Chosen One, Adrian hastily changes the subject after a split second of appalled silence. Well done, BBC.
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Just a few comments on the item by Angellica Bell on Helen Duncan.
1 Duncan wasn’t the last person to be convicted under the Witchcraft Act 1735. Six months after Duncan’s trial a Jane Rebecca Yorke was convicted on six counts. It was also used in December 1944 when an Emily Johnson, of the Redhill Spiritualist Church, was warned under the same Act and it continued to be invoked until 1950.
2 The Witchcraft Act 1735 actually eliminated the possibility of being prosecuted as a Witch. What it made illegal was to ‘pretend to exercise or use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment, or conjuration, or undertake to tell fortunes.’ – which covered eliciting money by claims of spirit contact. It was replaced by the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951.
3 The identification of the so-called materialisation was at a séance in Portsmouth and was made by the sailor’s Widow, not Mother, who claimed it was her husband and volunteered the information that he was on HMS Barham. Duncan was reported by an off-duty Naval Officer attending the séance.
4 The loss of HMS Barham wasn’t then public knowledge but there were nearly 400 survivors, not to mention the witnesses on the two other battleships and eight destroyers present. So it was common knowledge in Portsmouth.
5 Duncan had already been revealed as a fraud by Harry Price as early as 1933 when a series of photographs reveled that her ectoplasm was simply cheesecloth and the materialisations merely crude masks on sticks. A sample of ectoplasm snatched from Duncan in 1939 is held in the archives of the Society for Psychical Research, now kept in the University Library, Cambridge, and was viewed at least as recently as 2003.
Incidentally, I was also disappointed that Dom Littlewood felt it necessary to illustrate an item on ‘phishing’ by showing someone fishing! Does he also still think that a computer mouse is a real mouse?
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I think the show was great like all the previous ones. But worried about Christine doing to much Strictly Come Dancing and The One Show with no break. Adrian got about a fortnight off to go on a wee bit of a bike ride"A THE BEST" John
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Has Christine noticed that she is consistently left until nearly the very end every week before she learns she is through for another week's 'strictly'? Its about time she was 'put out of her misery' first! We all know she's going to get through and ultimately win.
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With the USA election approaching fast, has anyone else noticed how alike Sarah Palin, and one of the BBC Scotland weather 'girls' is?
Ali
Freezing cold but beautiful Ayrshire
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Dear Adrian
Is it the lighting or the make-up, or the reflection from the green couch that you are sitting on. has no one mentioned that YOUR face is tinged with GREEN, every night on the ONE SHOW, it is a different shade - perhaps someone should show you the colour on a tv monitor
by the way you look great on MOTD2
CHEERS
SMTHWICKIAN
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Dear Adrian (oh and Christine)
I dont know if you have noticed that there is an election going on in the USA, you must have noticed how empty the BBC studios are cos they are all over there.
Can you tell me how much air time the Americans give to our elections, is it a similar amount of time?
I'll be glad when its all over.
Paul Elborn
PS send my regards to Christines sister.
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