Kids Saying The Funniest Things

[db3745]

Who was it who used to interview schoolchildren on TV asking them everyday questions and getting them to say the funny things that young kids do - not Barrymore, long before him, almost certainly on BBC?
And of course the name of the programme if it was a specific programme as against part of another one.
I keep coming back to the name "Williamson" but that could be totally wrong.
I'd guess the 70s, but again I just remember it was quite a few years ago.

[buttons77]

I think it might have been Denis Norden?

[vodkancoke]

I can remember a programme called Child's Play which was hosted by Michael Aspel on ITV.

Kids Say The Funniest Things was (as far as I can remember) Barrymore in the 90's again on ITV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_Say_the_Funniest_Things

I can remember Dennis Norden doing some kind of show interviewing kids but I can't remember the name and his Wiki page mentions It Will Be Alright On The Night but I'm not sure that's it!

[marval]

So it wasn't Ronnie Corbett with Small Talk then?

[Chinajan]

It was Harold Williamson and was a section on Esther Rantzen's That's Life if I remember correctly.

[Chinajan]

ETA: Or possibly the Bernard Braden predecessor to That's Life.

[weecalf]

did jerermy beadle do summit like that ?

[db3745]

""It WAS Harold Williamson and was a section on Esther Rantzen's That's Life if I remember correctly."" - Yes; that's the one for sure.

There's a good obituary - he died in 2001 in the Telegraph:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1326250/Harold-Williamson.html

Children Talking started on radio, then moved to TV on Bradens Week in 1968, later becoming That's Life. Co-incidentally he started in TV on Man Alive, a Desmond Wilcox programme (later to become Esther Rantzen's husband!) I should have known as he was a County Durham lad like myself, and like me a keen Sunderland fan.

Thanks for all contributions!