BBC Birmingham Sundays at 9.00am for half an hour. The Birmingham studios also occasionally accommodated productions usually based in London when regular studio space was unavailable, for example "The Brothers" starring Jean Anderson, the children's programmes, "Play School" and "Jackanory", and the current affairs programme Nationwide during the power cuts of 1972 when the Lime Grove studios in London were in darkness. Some nationally popular programmes were hosted by BBC Birmingham and filmed at the "Pebble Mill Studios" which included the children's programme The "Basil Brush" show. A popular BBC2 programme from Birmingham for much of the 1970s-1990s was snooker programme "Pot
Fred Harris (presenter) programme "Room 785". On this show he presents the "Broom Cupboard" slot introducing the forthcoming programmes. Fred Harris (presenter) Fred Harris is a British comedian and children's television presenter. Formerly a schoolteacher, he began his television career as a presenter of the BBC children's programme "Play School", on which he appeared regularly between 1973 and 1988. During this time he was also a presenter on "Ragtime" and "Chock-A-Block". During the rise of the microcomputer in the early 1980s he fronted several home computing BBC programmes, including "Micro Live" (which formed part of BBC's ongoing Computer Literacy Project). He also presented