1986: Blue Peter - The Broom Cupboard

Janet Ellis visits the control gallery at Blue Peter to find out why the previous edition was taken off the air and how this nearly spelt disaster for the Six O'Clock News. She then chats in the Broom Cupboard to Phillip Schofield, who explains how the overrun affected him too.

Phillip Schofield had ambitions to be on television from an early age. As a child, he set up a TV studio in his bedroom made from cardboard boxes, with tea trolleys acting as cameras. He left school at 16 and got his first job with the BBC at the age of 17, as a bookings clerk for BBC Radio in London, where he was the youngest employee.

BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 13 February 1986.