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Hello again! Ricky and Nel, welcoming you to a very special | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
Newsround. It is exactly 40 years since this | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
show went live for the very first time. To mark the occasion, we have | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
got Newsround's founder, John Craven, in the studio. And we have | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
got all this coming up, too... No gadgets! Imagine what life was | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
like for your parents. We put these twins to the test. And we explore | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
the Newsround archive to find out what presenters were wearing 40 | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
years ago. But first, to celebrate our | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
birthday we have carried out a massive survey to find out how life | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
has changed for children since the programme first started. First up, | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
we wanted to find out how much freedom you get to do things on | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
your own these days, without your parents. The results suggest one in | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
three of you are allowed up to the shops or to walk to school alone. | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
And one in four of you are not allowed out without an adult at all. | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
There are lots of good reasons why your mum and dad might be worried | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
about letting you out on your own, but top children's author Michael | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Morpurgo thinks children should be allowed freedom to do things like | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
climbing trees. It is only by risking that you find out about | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
gravity, for instance. If you over a branch a tree, you fall down. By | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
taking risks, you learn to look after yourself and other people. | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
Well, we have been asking you what you think about this and loads of | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
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Now, we are really lucky to have with us today someone who launched | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
this programme, John Craven. He was the very first Newsround presenter | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
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when the show began in the 1970s. Thank you for being with us. John, | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
we have had loads of comments. Was it like that when you were | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
presenting Newsround? Kids did have a lot more freedom but a lot more | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
children came home to an empty home. These days, more children find | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
their parents at home to greet them. But maybe Michael Morpurgo is right. | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
Then maybe a little bit too much cotton-wool treatment these days. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
We have heard that a few times. Thanks, John. We will be catching | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
up with you a bit later but first, we are going to talk about religion. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
One of the questions we asked in our survey was whether you thought | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
it was important. The results suggest lot of you think it is, so | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
I have been out to investigate. Here in Britain, people follow lots | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
of different religions. Christianity, Islam, Judaism, | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
Sikhism and Hinduism are the big ones, but there are lots of other | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
religions around. One in three people do not follow any religion | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
at all. When we asked you guys were the religion was important to you, | :03:30. | :03:39. | |
43 per cent said it was. So is Britain become more religious? Well, | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
one man who should know is the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is the | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
most important man in the Church of England and I am hoping he might | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
have some of the answers. Are you surprised? I am a bit surprised. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Schools are more varied these days. People are exposed to different | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
religions. People are learning to take religion more seriously | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
perhaps. After Christianity, Islam is the next largest religion in | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
Britain. I am here at a mosque in Oxford to find out why some kids | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
choose to give up their free time to learn more about their religion. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Do you think a religion affects the way you become? I think it does a | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
bit because it affects your habits. My friends are lots of different | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
religions but that does not make any difference. I still treat them | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
the same. Fewer people in Britain go to church today than when | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Newsround first started, but our survey suggests that for many of | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
you, whatever religion you follow, it still plays an important part in | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
your life. Now, can you imagine life without a | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
smart phone, DVDs or even the Web? Well, if you had been around when | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Newsround first started, you would not have had any of them. They had | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
not been invented. So in a rather basic experiment, shall we say, I | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
put two volunteers to the test to see how they would have coped 40 | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
years ago. Meet twins Natalie and faith. They | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
live in Wigan with their mum. They love Newsround but 40 years ago | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
when Karen watched the show, things were different. I can remember John | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Craven's Newsround because he always used to wear a jumper! I | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
remember that. I remember when microwaves first came out. You | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
could heat up high in three minutes. We thought it was bonkers! Things | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
are a little bit different for Natalie and fray. We have the | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
computer. We can Google whatever we want. It takes two minutes. When | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
mum was little, I do not know how you would find it. You have to go | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
to lots of places to find information. Sorry to interrupt | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
your programme but it is time to return to the 1970s to find out | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
what life was like for your mum when she was growing up. So I | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
packed away all of the girls' gadgets, hair straightness, | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
computers and mobile phones but I let them keep their hamsters. This | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
is a totally unscientific experiment but it will give the | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
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girls an idea what it was like That was only four minutes. Are you | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
bored? Yes! It was depressing knowing that I could not do the | :06:44. | :06:54. | |
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things I wanted to do. Thank you for having me. See you later. | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
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let him back in! The 1970s stinks! Do you agree? I think the 70s were | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
great. So, John, it started in 1972. There | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
have been something like 33 presenters since you were on air. | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
What do you think are the big differences between then and now? I | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
think it is technically. The mission was always to explain | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
things in a simple way. When I started we were using film and not | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
videotape because that had not been invented. We had cardboard graphics. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
If you wanted to put a name on a city to reveal it, somebody pulled | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
away a piece of cardboard. It was all a bit dodgy! | :07:45. | :07:54. | |
If I can ask you very quickly, what was your memorable moment? I did | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
about 15,000 stories on the programme in my time. Probably the | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
most memorable was when Newsround became the first television | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
programme in the world to be allowed by the Chinese government | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
to film the pandas breeding. Sorry to cut you off. Your most colourful | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
jumpers were one of the most important things. We have put | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
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together a quick look at some of John, thank you so much for coming | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
in. Would you kindly take it away from here to the end of the | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
programme. Thanks, before we go, remember there is lots of other | :08:46. | :08:49. |