Episode 16 Points of View

This week, your thoughts on a tribute to a much-loved former presenter of this very show.

And the change to a channel that's been causing havoc in some households.

Welcome to your Points Of View.

First up this week, the Strictly Dance Off that was called off.

And you are not impressed with what happened as a result.

Millions tuned in last Sunday to see the first of this year's Strictly

celebs waltz off the dance floor for good.

But it didn't happen in typical Strictly fashion.

After sustaining an injury while training,

singer Anastacia was unable to take part in the usual Dance Off for the

bottom-placed couples.

Here's what happened next.

I can reveal that the couple with the fewest viewer votes,

and therefore out of the competition is...

It's Melvin and Jeanette.

AUDIENCE: Aw!

There were cries of "foul" and howls of injustice

as Strictly fans felt it was Anastacia

who should have sashayed her way off the show.

It was just so wrong to bring it down to the fewest votes by viewers.

I just don't feel that it was fair

and I feel very, very unhappy about it.

There was discord in households and even talk of legal proceedings.

That would be a busy institution.

Well, after Melvin's exit caused a hoo-ha hotter than a steamy samba,

Strictly issued the following statement.

Well done, you.

OK.

On BBC Two last Saturday night,

a series of programmes that caused pure delight.

It was an evening of poetry in all shapes and guises

which, it appeared, contained pleasant surprises.

Very happy with that.

Kicking off an initiative that sees BBC Two dedicate Saturday nights to

all things art,

last weekend saw the channel celebrate British poetry with

an evening of themed programmes.

Performance Live, hosted by Kate Tempest, included her work

Let Them Eat Chaos, which fused hip-hop, poetry and theatre.

# Overflowing plant pots, fence post, decorated door numbers,

# Motorbike, beneath a tarp, beaten up Punto... #

There were rave reviews,

firstly for Performance Live itself.

But also for the channel's decision

to dedicate a whole evening to the subject of verse.

It was perhaps, though,

the poetic programme that preceded Performance Live

which garnered the warmest reception of the night.

Railway Nation: A Journey In Verse

paid homage to WH Auden's famous Night Mail film,

as, 80 years later, six poets climbed aboard

the West Coast Main Line

to capture stories of its travellers in verse.

'Forward, like its motto.

'Beyond New Street's shining cathedral of rail.

'Its concretes and its tunnels.'

This was one journey you'd have been happy to see last longer than scheduled.

Staying along similar LINES,

BBC Four has also been jumping aboard the railway show bandwagon recently.

In the channel's new series Railways: The Making Of A Nation,

social historian Liz McIvor explores

how the growth of our rail network sparked a social revolution.

BBC One viewers in England got to see one episode from the series

the Wednesday before last, with different episodes being shown in different regions.

But viewers in the south-east region,

hoping to hear how the railways changed our commute,

were left struggling to hear, well, anything at all.

'Britain bursting with energy and confidence.

'Railways have transformed virtually everything.'

The excellent interviewer was, erm...

very difficult to understand, because it was continually overlaid

with awful music, screaming violins.

Oh, that's better!

Oh.

Well, hold the front page, we have an apology.

You can catch, and hopefully hear,

the rest of the series on Thursday nights on BBC Four.

Panorama this week investigated a disease which now affects

around four million people in the UK.

As a growing number of us are diagnosed with Type Two diabetes,

Monday night's Diabetes: The Hidden Killer reported from the front line

of the epidemic in Birmingham.

Hearing from doctors and patients,

the programme revealed how the condition's now even affecting children,

like 15-year-old Amir.

If we carry on like this at 15, by the time he hits 25,

you'll get eye damage

and you've already had gout and stuff in your feet as well.

And you will get these other bits of damage.

Although the programme was focused on Type Two diabetes,

it was this reference to the Type One condition that had you getting in touch.

'Type One diabetes, the sort you are born with,

'accounts for just a tenth of cases.'

That line, you felt was simply inaccurate.

The charity Diabetes UK told us

as there isn't enough research to determine the exact cause of Type One diabetes,

it was factually incorrect to claim it's the type you are born with.

We put that and your comments to the Editor of Panorama, Rachel Jupp.

And here's what she had to say in response.

When we are reporting on issues of such public importance,

it's vital we get the facts right.

We worked closely with medical charities and doctors on the programme.

But the line referring to Type One diabetes wasn't a medically accurate

description and we shouldn't have said it.

Although Type One commonly develops in childhood,

it can in fact develop at any age.

It results from immune mediated injury to the pancreas and it's not

yet known what can trigger that.

Next week marks six months since one of the BBC channels for children

began broadcasting two hours later every night.

Previously going off air each evening at 7pm,

since April this year, CBBC, home to younger viewers' favourites

like Danger Mouse and Horrible Histories,

has instead been broadcasting until 9pm every night.

But that change in schedule hasn't gone down well with some of you.

Neil Strawson went to hear how the channel's change in hours has affected one household.

So, Steve, can you tell me about the impact of this change on your family?

We knew where we were before,

7pm was great because it was a marker point in the evening.

But now things are so much different. Because it's 9pm,

we're now all over the place.

-'Midnight and way past my bedtime.'

-A YAWN

What about your child's view on this change?

We do have the odd little...

It's not a battle, but it's, "Come on, it's time for bed."

And it can drag on a bit and you just think, "Oh, for goodness' sake.

"If it finished at 7pm, we all knew where we were".

How is it bedtime already?

Do you think that would have happened if CBBC had kept to the 7pm deadline?

I don't think so, because it's introducing that later viewings.

Go to sleep.

School is very intense for kids now. There's high expectations with exams.

I don't want a child going to school being tired or irritable,

or becoming unwell because they're run down.

You know, I've come to a conclusion about all this.

If you had the opportunity to say one thing to the producers at CBBC,

what would you say?

I'd just say it is changing the dynamics of the family unit.

It's affecting the evening adult time.

Now it's a battle, because the children feel

that they are entitled to watch television until 9pm.

And I really, really do feel they've made a big mistake in this.

Well, we put Stephen's view

and the others that we heard to CBBC.

And here's what the channel's controller, Cheryl Taylor,

had to say.

And finally this week,

a tribute to a much-loved broadcaster

and a very cherished colleague here, Sir Terry Wogan.

Look at that, every move a poem.

Last Friday night, BBC One remembered the velvety-voiced veteran

with a star-studded show, celebrating his 50 years at the BBC.

I always used to think with his voice that

you didn't really need to hear what he was saying.

It was just the music of his voice.

TERRY HUMS

No, no, will you talk amongst yourselves, listeners, for just a moment? And I'll see

if I can get this on the other turntable. That's the only one that's working at the moment.

Of course, Sir Tel was the custodian of this very programme between 1999 and 2007,

when he brought his own brand of unique Wogan wit and wasn't afraid

to stick it to Auntie Beeb.

Well, Points Of View has chased the BBC's commissioners up and down the

blood-bolted corridors of the Corporation for an answer.

And the answer is...

Wait and see.

Much missed, great broadcaster, but genuinely such a gentleman.

That's quite enough of that.

That's all for this week, I'm afraid.

But whether you feel tomorrow's The Victorian Slum is superb

or Wednesday night's The Missing misses the mark,

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So, we're back next Sunday on BBC One...

Jeremy, mate. There's one more comment.

DRAMATIC MUSIC

Fair point, Miriam.

Producer, take heed.

I like it!

We're back next Sunday on BBC One at 2:30pm.

Hope you can join us then. Take care.