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Journalist Hugo Davenport has compiled a list for the Radio Times of '20 Programmes that Changed our World' and he has included Big Brother.

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The full list is

That Was the Week That Was (1962)
JFK Assassination news reports (1963)
Till Death Us Do Part (1965)
Cathy Come Home (1966)
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Apollo Moon Landing news reports (1969)
Royal Family (1969)
The World At War (1973)
Tiswas (1974)
The Naked Civil Servant (1975)
Life On Earth (1979)
Michael Buerk's Ethiopian news reports (1984)
Live Aid (1985)
That's Life, launch of Childline (1986)
Death On The Rock (1988)
Kate Adie's Tiananmen Square report (1989)
Gulf War news reports (1991)
Panorama interview with Diana, Princess Of Wales (1995)
Big Brother (2000)
11 September news reports (2001)

[Romantic Old Bird]

I agree that Big Brother changed my world...

BB1 was fascinating

But it was defo BB2 that led me to endless sleepless nights,
reading celeb rubbish,
posting on here,
writing daft stories etc......

[Kaz]

Posted by ROB
But it was defo BB2 that led me to endless sleepless nights . . . . .

Ditto, ROB!

Now, if they had let me be a contestant on 'Shattered' and had let me watch all the "shennanigans" that went on during BB2 for the entire programme, then I probably wouldn't have even blinked for the whole week! (And I like blinking, I do! )

Seriously though, BB has changed MY life - I'd never posted on a website forum before, and until the TiBB Convention in 2002, had never even travelled on the train on my own before! And I've met some extremely lovely, like-minded people as well - can't be bad!

[rachb]

Well I can never remember ever staying up all night to watch anything on tv before bb2 as I've always liked my sleep
and I never used to buy a paper or magazine never mind run to the newsagents every tuesday to but heat magazine!
My only excuse to OH was that I was pregnant at the time that bb2 was on and it was that keeping me up all night not the live e4 live coverage through the night
and my sudden need to buy every daily paper well that was down to hormones
as for appearing on shattered I'm with you Kaz I could last at least a few weeks with no sleep as I did it before when bb2 was onand never once felt tired

[BusyBee]

Did Big Brother change my world - you bet it did.

I watched BB1 and found it interesting but wasnt not completely hooked on it, but BB2 well that was a completely different story.

Before that I was a completely sane, sensible mother of two but afterwards - well.


1. How many people still have a BB2 calendar on their office wall (turned to Mr September) albeit with a different date bit underneath.

2. Who else would sit on the platform at Birmingham station writing an ode to a BB convention.

3. Who else would travel miles on a Saturday to spend a few hours with people I had never met before.

4. I bought papers and mazazines just because they had articles connected to a certain couple in them.

5. I travelled to Newport just to see a certain young lady with the excuse I was seeing relatives.

6. I've a collection of videos secreted away that are my pride and joy.

7. I write waffle on a web site, something I wouldnt have dreamed of doing.

8. I have a very slight fixation on a certain young man who is young enough to be my son.

All I can say is I wouldnt change a thing!

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