{"id":11223,"date":"2024-02-07T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11223"},"modified":"2024-02-07T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:11:09","slug":"media-blue-peter-introduce-mobile-phones-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11223","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA: Blue Peter Introduce Mobile Phones, 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZMcChLsGKWc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow! Love this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To think, I was only four years old at the time. It\u2019d be around another two decades before mobiles would start to really take a hold, to the extent that pals would &#8211; I thought rather ostentatiously, at the time &#8211; plonk their funky little Nokia down on whatever surface was at hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"982\" height=\"748\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6942-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-11219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6942-1.jpg 982w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6942-1-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6942-1-768x585.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">PP, in a wet BP garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And you have to love the inimitable Blue Peter style. And the funky \u201870s threads!? There\u2019s enough material in Peter Purves\u2019 \u2018loons to make the sails for a 100 gun ship of the line!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"990\" height=\"748\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6938-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-11220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6938-1.jpg 990w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6938-1-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6938-1-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I love you, Lesley!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And what about Lesley Judd? A former dancer &#8211; she actually guested with Pans People on a TOTP routine in \u201876, whilst working as a BP presenter &#8211; she\u2019s the stuff young boys\u2019 dreams are\/were made of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"975\" height=\"748\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6940-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-11222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6940-1.jpg 975w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6940-1-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6940-1-768x589.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lesley, atop the BBC (PP in BP garden below).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst John Noakes sat in the warm dry BP studio, PP was in the garden, and the lovely Lesley was up on the roof, with the receiver unit, all togged up in fab\u2019 \u201870s style, inc. a nice see-through brolly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Love this. To think, I was only four years old at the time. It\u2019d be around another two decades before mobiles would start to really take a hold, to the extent that pals would &#8211; I thought rather ostentatiously, at the time &#8211; plonk their funky little Nokia down on whatever surface was at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA: Blue Peter Introduce Mobile Phones, 1976&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2V1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}