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Thanks to the marvellous BBC programme catalogue prototype, you can – assuming you’re, er, not too old – see what was on TV on the day you were born, and even, if you know your time of birth, at the very moment you entered the world.<\/p>\n

My mum was missing out on Sunday Worship: I, Where Are We Now?<\/em><\/a> on BBC1 and an Open University programme<\/a> on BBC2.<\/p>\n

The link you need is in the format http:\/\/open.bbc.co.uk\/catalogue\/infax\/on_this_day\/yyyy\/mm\/dd where yyyy is the full year, mm is the month in two digits (e.g., 04 for April), and dd for the day.<\/p>\n

From this we can see that the newly-thirtysomething Stephen Tall<\/a> has the privilege of being born on the day<\/a> the fourth episode of the fantastic Doctor Who<\/em> story The Talons of Weng-Chiang<\/em> first aired, while today’s birthday boy Duncan<\/a> had the pleasure of a budget reply party political broadcast from the SDP\/Liberal Alliance featuring Roy Jenkins.<\/p>\n

Only one of these TV programmes featured a giant rat. I leave you to guess which \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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