ITV Schools - Experiment - The Nature of the Nerve Impulse

Back in the 1970's and 1980's UK school kids got to watch these Independent Television for Schools and Colleges programmes. A large old TV would be wheeled into the classroom (later with a huge VHS video player attached) and pupils waited for the lesson to commence either live or from tape. Notes were taken and normal school life resumed. These broadcasts were lampooned brilliantly in the spoof show Look Around You. (Just about the best comedy of the 00's if you ask me). This one also happens to feature a locust being tortured in the name of science!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/

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[dwilmer7]

Thanks insects. Thinsects.

[FugalQuease]

I watched Look Around You having not seen these things since school (when they were new!) - then watched this - ROFL!

[Matt571]

Jack Smith also narrated A Place to Live, the nature series which ran at the same time as Experiment. He also appeared in person in A Place to Live although he spoke directly to the camera.

[MrThecarebear]

@mistofoles No, the narrator was Jack Smith, who was also involved in another Granada schools programme

"Evolution".

LOOK AROUND YOU! JUST LOOK AROUND YOU!!

[mistofoles]

Oh, yuck! Vivessecting a live locust? That's just sick!

[mistofoles]

Ooh, that vocie sounds familiar...that's gotta be Martin Lewis narrating?

[TK42138]

I'd like to see the insect get even...

[TK42138]

Brings back some good memories. Teacher wheeling in a big tv with a sunshield that folded out and underneath would be the Ferguson top loading VCR with switches the size of Chieftain tank starter buttons. Happy days....