terrifying because we didn't have enough money. everything there was real. if we had big characters in suits, you had to have a big landscape and you built real hills. you built a real technological super dome, and you had real rabbits. and of course, in the event we had people crawling across the fields with long lenses on cameras, trying to get a picture of the teletubbies with no heads on and all sorts, but of course, you don't know that when you start the bbc�*s role was absolutely essential in the selling of it internationally, because at that time bbc children's programmes were deeply respected in all the countries in the world. germany were the people who embraced it the most. but everyone around the world at the various film markets and tv markets would go to the bbc if they were buying children's programmes and always look at what the bbc had done. so we had that advantage. if it had been on any other channel, it would not have had the same power.