First today, Charlie and Lola – I Just Love My Red Shiny Shoes. Lola has grown out of her favourite red shiny shoes.
The shoe shop doesn’t have replacements in her size. I can feel for this, having just come back from a trip to buy new trousers, where I couldn’t find any that were the length I needed.
She has trouble choosing.
Their father makes her choose a brown pair with buckles. She doesn’t like them.
But at school, when Lotta tells her the buckles make her sound like a pony, she changes her mind.
Media Centre Description: Children’s animation. Join Lola and Charlie, a brother and sister, as they deal with topics that affect their everyday lives. Lola’s favourite red shiny shoes no longer fit, and Dad insists that she gets a new pair of shoes. Lola is not having any of it; her old red shiny shoes are her favourite and she is definitely not going to change them, not ever! After trying on hundreds of other shoes, Dad makes her get some brown shoes with big buckles – but will Lola ever learn to like them?
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Friday 13 October 2006 08:30
The next recording opens with a few minutes of Water Voles. Do they make programmes like this any more?
There’s a trail for Suez: A Very British Crisis. And one for The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton.
There’s also a trail for Never Mind the Buzzcocks featuring the furry BBC Two ident.
Then, an episode of QI, presented by Stephen Fry.
Featuring Jeremy Clarkson
Neil Mullarkey
Liza Tarbuck
and Alan Davies.
This episode is all about dogs.
Media Centre Description: Stephen Fry hosts the quiz show in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are ‘quite interesting’. This edition features Alan Davies, Liza Tarbuck, Jeremy Clarkson and Neil Mullarkey tackling the subject of Dogs.
Recorded from BBC TWO on Friday 13 October 2006 21:58
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Friday 13 October 2006 22:00
It’s on iPlayer as well.
Incidentally, one of the QI Elves during this series was a man I’d worked with on h2g2 when it moved to the BBC. And this might have been the era when I got an invitation to watch a couple of episodes from John Lloyd himself, which also came out of h2g2. Jeremy Clarkson was in one of those episodes, in which he and John Sessions spent a very long time swapping anecdotes about old naval sea battles.
After this episode there’s a look at what’s next across the channels.
There’s the Radio 2 Elvis advert. Then the recording finishes after a few minutes of Newsnight. Is the British presence in Iraq causing more problems than it solves? Plus Kirsty Wark previews Newsnight Review.
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