headlines and news stories for you at the top of the hour after this programme stop i m here at broadcasting house in london for this addition of witness history bringing you important moments from the past is told by the people who were there, in this episode we are celebrating 100 years of the bbc and we will look back at five incredible stories in the history of the corporation. we will hear from the tv chef who taught the west how to cook indian food and the iconic moment the bbc beamed the beatles around the world, the fight to film the coronation of queen elizabeth and how it changed the public relationship with the royal family. mentality troubles the worldwide tv programme that became a worldwide phenomenon. in 1945 richard dimbleby was the first person to report on the first person to report on the liberation of belsen concentration campjonathan concentration camp jonathan jumble concentration campjonathan jumble beadle back on his father s harrowing reports which re
ago walked on the moon. then andy said to me, you know, isn t it amazing? there s all this technology and you look at them and theyjust look like babies with nappies on toddling about. of course, that made me laugh in my head. i d thought far, you know, over the hills and far away teletubbies come to play. that was my line. and i said to andy, how can these guys receive the pictures? we can t have a big screen in the house. it s just too banal. we can t do that. he says, no, they could have them on their stomachs and that s brilliant. i then said, well, they ve got to have antennas on their heads to receive pictures. and that s what we did. that was not in the least like the program that had previously occupied this slot. and so we stuck to our guns and of course we won the commission. then of course, we had to make it, which was 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
and to america on a selling trip to sell tots tv and other things. and we went to washington, but we decided we go to the smithsonian, and we saw the actual spacesuits of men who just not that long ago walked on the moon. then andy said to me, you know, isn t it amazing? there s all this technology and you look at them and theyjust look like babies with nappies on toddling about. of course, that made me laugh in my head. i d thought far, you know, over the hills and far away teletubbies come to play. that was my line. and i said to andy, how can these guys receive the pictures? we can t have a big screen in the house. it s just too banal. we can t do that. he says, no, they could have them on their stomachs and that s brilliant. i then said, well, they ve got to have antennas on their heads to receive pictures. and that s what we did. that was not in the least like the program that had previously occupied this slot. and so we stuck to our guns and of course we won the commission. then