Tony Hart

WHEN I was little, Tony Hart used to do a weekly children's TV programme about art on BBC1 called Take Hart.

These are the opening credits from an old show.



What I remember best about Take Hart were "the gallery", which displayed the best sent-in work by children around the country, to strains of "The Deer Hunter music" ~ Stanley Myers's Cavatina:



And "Morph" the entertaining little playdough man:

I used to think this "claymation" animation amazing when I was 8 and 9...


Tony Hart died in January 2009, aged 83.

Tara Palmer Tomkinson: These Boots (Were Made For Walking)

SEVERAL NON-SINGING CELEBS agreed to do BBC TV's Fame Academy, an X-Factor or American Idol style show where wannabe pop stars train and develop. And get kicked out one by one. Tara Palmer Tomkinson is a very posh British "it girl" in the Paris Hilton mould, who counts Prince Charles as a family friend. In the true "do anything" attitude of public school tradition, she here gives Nancy Sinatra's classic a good going-at:~

Her Majesty The Queen's Supposed "Tantrum" at American Photographer Annie Liebowitz...

Here's last night's BBC News report of the same.

(As originally reported in The Sun newspaper...)