04/04/2012 Newsround


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Hello again! Ricky and Nel, welcoming you to a very special

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Newsround. It is exactly 40 years since this

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show went live for the very first time. To mark the occasion, we have

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got Newsround's founder, John Craven, in the studio. And we have

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got all this coming up, too... No gadgets! Imagine what life was

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like for your parents. We put these twins to the test. And we explore

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the Newsround archive to find out what presenters were wearing 40

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years ago. But first, to celebrate our

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birthday we have carried out a massive survey to find out how life

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has changed for children since the programme first started. First up,

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we wanted to find out how much freedom you get to do things on

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your own these days, without your parents. The results suggest one in

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three of you are allowed up to the shops or to walk to school alone.

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And one in four of you are not allowed out without an adult at all.

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There are lots of good reasons why your mum and dad might be worried

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about letting you out on your own, but top children's author Michael

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Morpurgo thinks children should be allowed freedom to do things like

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climbing trees. It is only by risking that you find out about

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gravity, for instance. If you over a branch a tree, you fall down. By

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taking risks, you learn to look after yourself and other people.

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Well, we have been asking you what you think about this and loads of

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Now, we are really lucky to have with us today someone who launched

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this programme, John Craven. He was the very first Newsround presenter

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when the show began in the 1970s. Thank you for being with us. John,

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we have had loads of comments. Was it like that when you were

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presenting Newsround? Kids did have a lot more freedom but a lot more

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children came home to an empty home. These days, more children find

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their parents at home to greet them. But maybe Michael Morpurgo is right.

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Then maybe a little bit too much cotton-wool treatment these days.

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We have heard that a few times. Thanks, John. We will be catching

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up with you a bit later but first, we are going to talk about religion.

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One of the questions we asked in our survey was whether you thought

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it was important. The results suggest lot of you think it is, so

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I have been out to investigate. Here in Britain, people follow lots

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of different religions. Christianity, Islam, Judaism,

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Sikhism and Hinduism are the big ones, but there are lots of other

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religions around. One in three people do not follow any religion

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at all. When we asked you guys were the religion was important to you,

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43 per cent said it was. So is Britain become more religious? Well,

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one man who should know is the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is the

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most important man in the Church of England and I am hoping he might

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have some of the answers. Are you surprised? I am a bit surprised.

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Schools are more varied these days. People are exposed to different

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religions. People are learning to take religion more seriously

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perhaps. After Christianity, Islam is the next largest religion in

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Britain. I am here at a mosque in Oxford to find out why some kids

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choose to give up their free time to learn more about their religion.

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Do you think a religion affects the way you become? I think it does a

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bit because it affects your habits. My friends are lots of different

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religions but that does not make any difference. I still treat them

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the same. Fewer people in Britain go to church today than when

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Newsround first started, but our survey suggests that for many of

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you, whatever religion you follow, it still plays an important part in

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your life. Now, can you imagine life without a

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smart phone, DVDs or even the Web? Well, if you had been around when

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Newsround first started, you would not have had any of them. They had

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not been invented. So in a rather basic experiment, shall we say, I

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put two volunteers to the test to see how they would have coped 40

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years ago. Meet twins Natalie and faith. They

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live in Wigan with their mum. They love Newsround but 40 years ago

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when Karen watched the show, things were different. I can remember John

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Craven's Newsround because he always used to wear a jumper! I

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remember that. I remember when microwaves first came out. You

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could heat up high in three minutes. We thought it was bonkers! Things

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are a little bit different for Natalie and fray. We have the

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computer. We can Google whatever we want. It takes two minutes. When

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mum was little, I do not know how you would find it. You have to go

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to lots of places to find information. Sorry to interrupt

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your programme but it is time to return to the 1970s to find out

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what life was like for your mum when she was growing up. So I

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packed away all of the girls' gadgets, hair straightness,

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computers and mobile phones but I let them keep their hamsters. This

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is a totally unscientific experiment but it will give the

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girls an idea what it was like That was only four minutes. Are you

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bored? Yes! It was depressing knowing that I could not do the

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things I wanted to do. Thank you for having me. See you later.

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let him back in! The 1970s stinks! Do you agree? I think the 70s were

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great. So, John, it started in 1972. There

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have been something like 33 presenters since you were on air.

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What do you think are the big differences between then and now? I

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think it is technically. The mission was always to explain

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things in a simple way. When I started we were using film and not

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videotape because that had not been invented. We had cardboard graphics.

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If you wanted to put a name on a city to reveal it, somebody pulled

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away a piece of cardboard. It was all a bit dodgy!

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If I can ask you very quickly, what was your memorable moment? I did

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about 15,000 stories on the programme in my time. Probably the

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most memorable was when Newsround became the first television

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programme in the world to be allowed by the Chinese government

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to film the pandas breeding. Sorry to cut you off. Your most colourful

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jumpers were one of the most important things. We have put

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together a quick look at some of John, thank you so much for coming

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in. Would you kindly take it away from here to the end of the

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programme. Thanks, before we go, remember there is lots of other

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