Advent Calendar 2021 Day 2: My World, 1971

My World, which ran from 1969 to 1988, was an ITV Schools - our second visit there - via Yorkshire storytelling series for primary school children best remembered its pastoral guitar and synth-woodwind theme, The Free Life by regular theme tune writer (News At Ten, Minder, Angels, guitarist on the Top Of The Pops version of Whole Lotta Love) Alan Parker, later covered (as My World) by The Go! Team on their 2007 second album Proof Of Youth. That means one problem is immediately evident - that theme hadn't actually come in by this stage, instead using a shuffly sitcommy thing by Stars On Sunday regular Charles Smitton that doesn't suit the patrician sit down and tell tales to five year olds concept at all. Then again, neither does airing a Christmas themed show on 29th November, no matter what Maureen Sutcliffe says. There's something sweet about the animations borrowed from the National Film Board of Canada - this must be part of the goodwill they built up that enabled them to fund The Cat Came Back - and Chris Rowe's song about the other animals and birds that might have gathered around the stable. The notably accented children singing Away In A Manger, less so.