It was a case of Lights! Camera! Action! as the stars of TV show Blue Peter broadcast live from Bradford.

Thousands of fans strained for a peek at presenters Katy Hill, Konnie Huq and Matt Baker as they prepared to "go live" for yesterday's edition of the children's favourite at Bradford's National Museum of Photography Film and Television.

The broadcast was part of the BBC's massive FutureWorld exhibition which started its tour of the UK at the museum on Saturday.

Taking a break from rehearsals, new presenter Matt Baker said: "It's all very hectic - but it's very exciting.

"We're doing a live outside broadcast for today's show and it's all going fairly well so far.

"I think the museum's great and the FutureWorld exhibition is fantastic. It's definitely worth a visit. My favourite bit is the booth where you can go in and pretend to be a television presenter, like I've been doing all day!"

FutureWorld, which will be on show at the museum for the next seven weeks, aims to give an insight into the hi-tech future of TV, the Internet and the digital revolution taking place in sitting rooms across the country.

The project's director David Vercoe, who previously ran BBC Radio 2, said: "We chose to start in Bradford because this is the right place to be. When we were looking for places to visit this was the obvious place to start because it is the National Museum."

BBC spokesman Lindsay Sutton said the exhibition had got off to a tremendous start. He said: "It's going extremely well - we've had a fantastic response from the Bradford public.

"We had about 4,000 people come through the FutureWorld exhibition on the first day.

"I'm a Bradford lad and I'm absolutely chuffed to see something like this happening here."

Among the visitors at the museum yesterday was ten-year-old cub-scout Jonathan Callan-Travis who travelled from York.

He said: "It's brilliant. It's been really good to see the Blue Peter presenters in real life - it's very exciting to see them filming the show. Most of all I'm looking forward to seeing the Walking With Dinosaurs displays."

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