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Good to see BITSA on Wikipedia. However, a few factual additions are necessary! BITSA was devised by PETER CHARLTON & PAUL GODDARD. Peter Charlton also wrote the sig.tune in partnership with jazz musician BILL LE SAGE. it was originally played by the group of jazz musicians under Bill le Sage's leadership and sung by DAVE BENSON PHILLIPS. The first series also featured a weekly song, usually written by Peter Charlton and sung by Dave Benson Phillips, which covered the sequence when school children made their own 'Bitsa'. A later version of the sig. tune featured the Liverpool band STRIDER, sung and arranged by MARK READER (Mark also wrote the 'Hurry' music used during the 3-minute challenge. The first 3 series of BITSA were studio based, recorded in Bristol, Birmingham, Elstree and London. The last two series were made 'on location' using the BITSA BUS, a box Luton van, transformed by BITSA artists. We didn't visit schools at all with the van but did get all over the UK and to Spain. One of the Spanish programmes, 'Bitsa Fiesta', won a 'Childen's Jury 'Honourable Mention' award in the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. Brian Jameson was the director for most of the programmes; Peter Charlton occasionally directed studio programmes and directed the children's sequences in the earlier series. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.62.189 (talk) 15:35, 9 August 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia - might I suggest that you be bold and include all that info? You certainly seem to know what you're talking about. As a side-note, always remember to sign your posts by typing ~~~~, which is automatically converted into a signature and timestamp. _TheIslander 15:19, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Really you cannot just go ahead and add all the info here. Ideally they should be adequately sourced. Do you have any source for your claims above?--NeilEvans 16:19, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, good point. What I meant to say was something along the lines of "...might I suggest that you be bold and include all that info, if you can cite it?". Unfortunatly for me, what I mean to say and what I actually say are often different... _TheIslander 16:23, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Out-of-print books

From the article:

Two books have been produced accompanying the series, which are now only to be found on eBay.

I shortened this to:

Two books have been produced to accompany the series.

because they can probably be found on other auction websites, in second-hand bookshops, etc.. I presume what it meant was that the books are out-of-print, which they probably are. I would add this to the article, but does anyone know of a source to confirm that a particular book is out-of-print? boffy_b (talk) 05:59, 30 November 2007 (UTC)