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An attitude or standpoint, how one sees or thinks of something. For example, From the manufacturer's point of view, the critical issue is cost. This expression, originally alluding to one's vantage point in seeing a building or painting or other object, dates from the early 1700s.
point of view, the position or vantage‐point from which the events of a story seem to be observed and presented to us. The chief distinction usually made between points of view is that between third‐person narratives and first‐person narratives. A third‐person narrator may be omniscient, and therefore show an unrestricted knowledge of the story's events from outside or ‘above’ them; but another kind of third‐person narrator may confine our knowledge of events to whatever is observed by a single character or small group of characters, this method being known as ‘limited point of view’ (see focalization). A first‐person narrator's point of view will normally be restricted to his or her partial knowledge and experience, and therefore will not give us access to other characters' hidden thoughts. Many modern authors have also used ‘multiple point of view’, in which we are shown the events from the positions of two or more different characters.
Points of View is a long-running television show shown in the United
Kingdom on
Originally designed as an occasional five-minute show to plug the gap between shows, the show began in 1961 with Robert Robinson presenting viewers' letters. Kenneth Robinson took over in 1965, though Robert Robinson took over once again in 1969, before the show was dropped in 1971.
The show returned in 1979 with the dry humour of Barry Took at the helm, and with
The Beatles' "When I'm Sixty-Four" as its theme
tune (courtesy of the line "Send me a postcard, drop me a line, stating point of view"), and has continued to this day. Took was
eventually replaced by a succession of short-lived presenters including
This perennially popular show typifies the British method of complaint; as Victoria Wood put it, "When the Russians feel strongly about an issue they form a bloody revolution — the British write a strongly-worded letter to Points of View". Although much less common now, the show has over the decades featured many a letter beginning "Why, oh why, oh why..." and signed "Upset of Uxbridge" or "Tired of Tunbridge Wells", or something similar (nowadays, most, if not all, simply use their real names), with the complaints receiving little but a pre-packaged witty comment from the presenter. Along the way the show has always discreetly catered for those who reminisce about the so-called "golden days" of the BBC, featuring letters asking "Please, please, please could you show the clip where Vera Lynn sang to the troops on the 50th anniversary of D-Day last week", and the like.
The series has often been criticised for featuring too much praise of the BBC and its programmes, and playing down criticism. This tendency has been sent up by many comedians over the years, including memorable skits in Monty Python's Flying Circus and Not the Nine O'Clock News. In the latter, positive letters said such things as "I think the (television licence) fee is far too low. I would willingly sell my house and all its contents to help the BBC."
Points Of View has undergone something of a revision in 2007. Not only are letters and emails from viewers featured, but also home made video comments and specially filmed inserts featuring viewers putting the questions to the TV producers. In the 2007 season Points Of View featured diverse films such as Students from Sussex University making impassioned plea to the BBC to keep Neighbours. John Leivers interviewing Roly Keating, controller of BBC2 on the chanels direction and Jill Parkinson asks why there aren't more people with disabilities featured in BBC programmes.
Between 1963 and 1970 Robert Robinson (later replaced by Sarah Ward, and Gaynor Morgan Rees) presented a version designed for children's letters entitled Junior Points of View.
The programme has been hosted by no less than four presenters with the surname "Robinson"; namely Robert, Kenneth, Anne and Tony.
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