Breakfast Time

Let's talk a little bit about the reaction to the program.

That following Monday morning, there's an interesting installment of Breakfast Time.

Well, of course, the famous thing to happen on the day after Threads was the, the War Song by Culture Club came out literally on that day, and Boy George was on Breakfast Time.

So Breakfast Time was geared up specifically to have one of its reporters in Sheffield to talk to people about the reaction to Threads being on the night before, and it's littered throughout that Breakfast Time [laughs] show, the kind of two and a half hours or whatever it was in those days.

And you've got Mike Smith as one of the presenters.

He's traumatized, Mike Smith.

He dreamt about it all night, didn't he? Probably had to get up at 3:00 in the morning to do Breakfast Time, so he's probably had, like, half an hour's sleep, and he looks a haunted man.

And you've got Frank Bough, who...

Thomas Rees is to turn.

Listen to this clip from BBC Breakfast Time in 1983 and the then ever-present Frank Boff.

Now, she may not be a beauty, but she has one major attraction, that is, she's unique.

And as we reported last week, each doll is computer-designed to be slightly different from its brothers and sisters, and each one has its own personality profile, birth certificate and adoption certificate to be filled in by its new parent.