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Corners was a BBC children's television series in the 1980s. Produced by Alison Stewart, the format of the programme was that viewers would submit questions and queries (usually general knowledge, but sometimes metaphysical or scientific), and the two hosts, Tracy Brabin (later Sophie Aldred and then Diane-Louise Jordan) and Simon Davies, would try to answer the questions, aided by an anthopomorphised animal puppet, Jo Corner. Being children's programming, the explanations used humour to convey information and frequently involved demonstrations which degenerated into slapstick humour. Songs were also used. A show with a similar format, " Dear Mr. Barker", aired on CBBC in the mid-'90s, but did not last long.
One of the presenters of the show was Sophie Aldred, who later became famous for playing the role of Ace in the television series Doctor Who (in one segment prior to her involvement in Who, Aldred met Keff McCulloch to discover how the new Doctor Who theme tune was composed). The other was Simon Davies, whose career continues as a writer and performer.
Corners may refer to:
- A community formed at a crossroads or other intersection; a few examples include:
- Balcom Corners, New York
- Bells Corners in Ottawa
- Dixon's Corners, Ontario
- Five Corners, Wisconsin (disambiguation), any of three communities of that name
- Hales Corners, Wisconsin
- Hallers Corners, Michigan
- Layton Corners, Michigan
- A corner, a term used in geometry, square dance, sports and geography.
- Corners, a variation on the Four Seasons card game
- Corners (TV series), 1980s BBC children's television series
- Corners, Perry County, Missouri, an unincorporated community
Usage examples of "corners".
Here I ran as rapidly as my legs would carry me toward the five corners, and there plunged into the passageway that led to the station of the old miser.
A moment of thrilling suspense and then the corners lifted as though a strong breeze were playing upon them.
He was lying upon a couch which had four short curved posts at the corners coming to a knob at the end, in appearance something like written notes of music, and was evidently in the very act of expiring.
It is useless to say that the darkest corners of the passages were ransacked before they were obliged to give it up in despair.
In some places, the wind, eddying round the corners, formed the snow into tall whirling columns, resembling those waterspouts which turn round on their base, and which vessels attack with a shot from a gun.
At all the street corners groups of people were reading papers, talking excitedly, or staring at these unusual Sunday visitors.
People were coming out of the side streets, and standing in groups at the corners talking.
Haggard special constables with white badges stood at the corners of every street.
He twisted his heavy mouth into a faint smile--he was one of those saturnine people who smile with the corners of the mouth down,--and bowed his acknowledgment of my complaisance.
I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.
The mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran down over the chin and neck.
As there were only the big wooden boxes, there were no odd corners where a man could hide.
He is not now eating them, but putting them into a box, as of old, and is already examining the corners of his room to find a spider.
There was no sign of anyone, and as there were no corners, no doors, no aperture of any kind, but only the solid walls of the passage, there could be no hiding place even for him.
And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, least by chance some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there.