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Educational TV Series on Healthy Living
Wits TV is producing a series of 26 * 26 minute magazine programmes on the body, healthy living and ways to cope with stress for SABC Education. The programmes will be repackaged for School TV. It is a series of programmes for eight to 10 year olds on healthy living. The School TV programmes will be broadcast from the 28th of January 2002.
Boishoko Mpshane (14) is an experienced television presenter. Adam Woolf (12) can be seen in the new Leon Schuster film Mr. Bones to be released over Christmas. Dineo Nchabeleng (9) is all of nine years old and has already stolen all the hearts here at Wits TV.
The programme starts with an animated sequence of the presenters being blasted into space in a pineapple-shaped rocket. Every week the rocket takes them to a different section of the body.
A set for the links between inserts has been built in Studio One, Senate House. The set resembles a factory, designed to represent the workings of the human body. Three presenters take turns to guide viewers from one insert to the next.
With lots of input from Wits academics, these programmes promise to make a valuable contribution to health education and life skills across South Africa. Every week Prof. Al Cannone and Dr Marcus Byrne present a peak at the microscopic world to our viewers. Kids get the opportunity to look at tiny things from cells to Daphnia. Professor Helen Laburn and her team - Lauren Tanchell, Linda Reid, Muzi Maseko and Warrick McKinnon - facilitate peeks at the heart using sonar, testing muscle strength, healthy eating and coping with fever.
Amanda Esterhuysen from the Archaeological Resource Development Unit contributes by looking at what we can learn from old bones.
Five etv students are working on the production as interns. "This is the real stuff! No better way to consolidate the information we learn in class," says Kabelo Khala.
The production team hopes to complete videotaping by March next year.
For more information contact Lieza van Tonder on 082 89 73 869 or 717 9742.
Joe Makhafola , Wits Edge Reporter
Telephone : 011 717 1018, Fax : 011 339 7620
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