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Why BBC never took to Sesame Street

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8340141.stm

Nice article on BBC about the decision to not air Sesame Street on the BBC.

The show crossed the Atlantic 18 months after its US launch, but the BBC rejected it because of its “authoritarian aims” in trying to change children’s behaviour.

Lucky I had Channel 4 then eh! the buggers!