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Mary Anning on the BBC

10/24/2012

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We have watched a Mary Anning programme. We're going to tell you all about it. It was a programme about lots of famous people who lived a long, long time ago. In this programme, there were five people: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, he was an engineer; Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone; Florence Nightingale, she was a nurse; Harriet Tubman, she was a slave, but she escaped and helped other slaves escape, and Mary Anning.

The programme got a few things wrong, though. It did say that Mary Anning was struck by lightning when she was 15 months old, but the baby in the programme was only a few months old. And in the programme, she was a grown-up when she found the ichthyosaur, but she was really only twelve years old, and she found it with her brother Joseph. AND it was a whole one, and not just a head. The programme was really good, but I'm sad that they got some things wrong.  When they do stories about real people, then they should get it right!

(Image taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d8rlf)

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Naomi Tayler
10/24/2012 05:01:11 pm

They really should, shouldn't they - That sort of thing annoys me too. I think it's very good that you noticed; I didn't know about Mary Anning so I probably wouldn't have. If more people noticed then maybe they would make more effort to get things right. I think sometimes people who make TV programmes are a little bit lazy Perhaps when you are older you could do a better job.. you've already taught me something today, and it's only breakfast time!

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Toby
10/24/2012 05:16:58 pm

Maybe I can write to the TV people and tell them. We only know about Mary Anning, so now we're not sure that the stories about the other people are right, so we're going to look them up. I liked the stories about Harriet Tubman and Florence Nightingale, too!

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rachel
10/24/2012 05:41:20 pm

well done to you for spotting the problems- I should look out the one about Isambard Kingdom Brunel and check out any mistakes on that!

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Cool cats 23 link
9/22/2015 09:51:55 am

Love it

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9/22/2015 09:50:41 am

Coooool

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