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I initially gathered together a group of about 10 people, mainly through a society stall at the beginning of the first term in October 1967 (an early manifestation of the event now known as Freshers Fair).  The group met every Tuesday evening in the little meeting room overlooking the Langwith dining room (is is still there?). At these meetings we discussed ideas for the weekly 'news magazine' TV programme we called '[[Newsround]]', wrote some scripts and generally had fun.  Script writing was made easier because a couple of our members (not me) could type - not a common skill among university students in the late 1960s.  One member actually owned a portable typewriter which we used extensively.  This was [[Sieta Rijkelijkhuizen]] who later became station director and who, like me, now lives in Australia.

We produced 'Newsround' every Wednesday afternoon in the 'studio' in the basement of the Chemistry building.  We had two cameras on wheeled tripods and a very primitive vision switching device which may have been 'home-made' by the three University technicians led by the senior technical officer [[Bruce Pears]] who were responsible for the operation and maintenance of the video equipment.  Camera operation and vision switching (such as it was) was done mainly by students and sometimes by the University technicians.