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
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. it was dubbed everywhere.
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.