The first recording starts with a trail for Stake Out.
Then, a repeat of an episode of M.I. High – Big Sister.
Media Centre Description: Children’s spy drama with high school kids Blane, Daisy and Rose. The spies investigate when a child-hating MP threatens to send Britain’s kids to a remote island.
Recorded from BBC ONE on Monday 11th February 2008 16:33
BBC Genome: BBC ONE Monday 11th February 2008 16:35
After this there’s a trail for Evacuation To The Manorhouse and a promo for the M.I. High Website.
Then the recording stops with the start of Newsround.
The next recording starts with the end of Arthur.
There’s another trail for Evacuation To The Manorhouse
Then, it’s a new episode of M.I. High – The Cold War.
The Grand Master is using a pharmaceutical company to infect children and spread a super-flu.
“We also need to stop the virus spreading and find a vaccine. Here’s a sample taken from one of the flu victim’s nostrils.”
Mr Flatley is suffering from Flu but wants to stay at school because he’s almost overtaken the record for continuous attendance for a teacher.
They find the records of a flu that broke out in 1914.
Blane is trying out his SatNav Sneakers, but they’re a bit temperamental.
He and Daisy are searching for the notes of Theodore Tilbury, who created the vaccine which stopped the 1914 virus. They can’t find the notes, but they do find the cryogenically frozen body of Tilbury.
They bring the body back to school by putting Blane’s satnav sneakers on it.
Rose has created a machine that maps the brain, and lets her experience it in virtual reality. She’s going to use it to find the vaccine formula from Tilbury’s brain.
The evil chemist who created the virus, called Gesundheit, comes to the school to find Tilbury, but he’s mistaken for a first-aid examiner and brought to the first aid class to judge the children.
Blane follows Rose into Tilbury’s brain to make sure she’s OK. The brain appears like the classrooms in St Hopes. They even come across Tilbury but he doesn’t seem to want to help them.
Daisy discovers why Blane and Rose might be in trouble. “The First World War began the day Tilbury’s vaccine was distributed. He never got the credit he deserved, which left him pretty twisted. Though Tilbury will never give us the vaccine, there’s someone in there who might help.”
Gesundheit finds his way into the MI9 headquarters, and fights with Lenny over Tilbury’s body.
Daisy brings Rose and Blane to the art room – the emotional centre of the brain. “Tilbury didn’t work alone. His wife was a scientist, too. They worked as a team. He fell out of love with the world, but she didn’t.” She gives them the formula.
Lenny overcomes Gesundheit when he sneezes on Tilbury’s hand and smears it all over Gesundheit’s face.
Mr Flatley makes it to 4pm to win the attendance award.
Media Centre Description: Children’s spy drama with high school kids Blane, Daisy and Rose. The Grandmaster unleashes his own cold war on Britain, a nasty flu epidemic.
Recorded from CBBC Channel on Monday 11th February 2008 17:13
BBC Genome: CBBC Channel Monday 11th February 2008 17:15
The recording stops during an episode of Chucklevision.
The next recording starts with the end of Richard & Judy talking to Alex Zane about Rude Tube.
Then it’s The Simpsons – Treehouse of Horror VII. I did have this on a tape, but it was an early one where I just listed the programmes.
The first story is The Thing and I where we meet Bart’s secret conjoined twin brother Hugo.
The Genesis Tub sees Lisa creating life for a school project, who then see her as a God and Bart as the Devil.
Citizen Kang sees Homer abducted by aliens, who them abduct Bill Clinton and Bob Dole so they can impersonate them and win the election.
Media Centre Description: Three terrifying tales: Bart and Lisa discover Bart’s demented twin locked up in the attic, Lisa creates an alternative universe in a margaine tub where the inhabitants perceive her as God and Bart as the Devil, and when space aliens kidnap the two presidential candidates on the eve of the election, Homer, the only witness, has to come to the rescue.
Recorded from Channel 4 on Monday 11th February 2008 17:58
After this, there’s the start of Hollyoaks.
The last recording today starts with the end of Panorama. Here’s Jeremy Vine standing outside the BBC Broadcast Centre, which was my office for quite a few years when I was at the BBC.
There’s a trail for the News, and a promo for BBC Asian Network.
Then, it’s a new episode of Life in Cold Blood – Land Invaders.
David Attenborough is looking at amphibians. He starts his narration floating down a river in a boat. “Amphibians were the first backboned animals to leave the water and colonize the land. Today, there are some 6,000 species of them and new ones are constantly being discovered. We may not often see them, but during the breeding season, we certainly hear them.” Is David Attenborough going dogging?
“Choruses like this ensure that we are well aware of frogs and toads.” David Attenborough and the Frog Chorus.
We meet a living creature who is, it is thought, a surviving example of the kind of fish which eventually evolved into amphibians – the lungfish.
A male Alpine Newt tries to impress a female. “So, as in many fish, mating occurs with little or no physical contact between the two partners.” You’re really not selling the lifestyle, David.
Salamander Tadpoles.
A salamander feeds on insects.
In an abandoned gold mine, some salamanders spend the hot summer deep underground where the air is always moist. But some of them haven’t eaten enough to sustain them through the summer, and go and find the eggs of other salamanders to eat.
There’s a type of salamander called a Sicilian which have lost their legs. The programme films, for the first time, the behaviour of young animals with their mother. “They were tearing at her flanks, ripping off segments of her skin, skin that proved to be full of fat. It turned out that she re-grew her skin every three days to provide her young with another nourishing meal.”
He shows us the tiniest frog species in the world. That’s his fingernail, for scale.
Frog calls are, of course, sex related. “Calling is a very demanding activity, requiring a male to increase his energy consumption by about 20 times. So in picking the loudest and fastest caller, the female is also selecting the fittest and the most vigorous male as a father of her offspring.”
The Golden Frog waves as part of its communications.
The African Bullfrog lays its eggs in a nursery pond, nearby a river. But as the tadpoles hatch, the sun could dry up the pool. So the father has to dig a channel from the river to the pool before the water dries up so the tadpoles can escape to the river.
“The parched bush country of southern Africa. Here it rains only twice a year, and then only briefly. But when it does, the ground in places erupts. Rain frogs, as they’re aptly called, have been waiting for months below ground for this moment.”
Media Centre Description: David Attenborough reveals the surprising truth about the cold-blooded lives of reptiles and amphibians. From steamy jungles to dry deserts, amphibians have taken their first footsteps onto land using their bizarre life histories to break their ties with the water and invade the earth. This week he discovers warring metre-long salamanders, show-off newts, and marsupial frogs, where it is the father who gives birth.
Recorded from BBC ONE on Monday 11th February 2008 20:58
BBC Genome: BBC ONE Monday 11th February 2008 21:00
After this, there’s a trail for Ashes to Ashes.
Then the recording finishes with the start of the Ten O’Clock News, and rather timely for today, it leads with the announcement of the first trials for suspects in the September 11th bombings.
Here’s the ad breaks from The Simpsons.
Adverts:
- trail: Rude Tube
- Ford Focus
- Dentyl
- Cravendale
- Specsavers
- Jack Johnson – Sleep Through the Static
- Puma
- Calvin Klein Man
- L’Oreal Elvive – Eva Longoria Kerry Washington
- trail: Skins
- Army
- Cancer Research UK
- Glade Flameless Candle
- Gucci by Gucci
- HSBC
- Herbal Essences
- L’Oreal Casting
- Learndirect
- trail: The Big Bang Theory