Hello, boys and girls. I'm Neil Patterson. Do any of you know what this is?

Well, if you are anywhere close in edge to me, you have just been transported to the world of Mrs. McCluskey and Mr Br Bronson of Zammo and Roland!

Of a sausage on a fork being inexplicably flung across a room.

It is, of course, the theme tune to Kids TV classic Grange Hill,

and those hairs standing up in the back of my neck are just an indication of how significant a programme it was, to me at least.

As well as drama, you had animations like Captain Pugwash.

Simple in style, humorous in tone, and despite what your dad tells you,

very definitely without a character called Roger the Cabin Boy.

It seems a mile from the glossy

high concept programmes of today. Listeners, please do not be alarmed. I haven't fallen out the

round window and landed on my head. Today we are going to be taking a look at the evolution of

kids TV because CITV is no longer a linear

kids TV channel the content now moved to ITV's streaming service CBBC the BBE equivalent will be

doing the same sky well we've bucked the trend by launching an ad-free kids channel but

spending on kids programming has fallen significantly.

And as the blue-glow bathing faces around your dinner table will tell you,

more often than not, our children are the masters of their content,

accessing programs online via their devices.

And who exactly is keeping eyes on what our children are watching?

So, is there currently a crisis in Kids TV? Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.

Later, I will be taking a step back in time

and chatting with the longest-serving female Blue Peter presenter, Connie Huck.

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