It's true the public was significantly more straightforward back in the day. But this 1957 episode is actually far more ...
On April 1, 1957 the BBC aired the spaghetti-hoax story -a joke described as "the most successful April Fool's Day prank of all time." ...
Some 68 years ago today, millions of people tuned into a BBC Panorama report about a Swiss family harvesting spaghetti from trees. It may sound implausible, but many viewers believed it. Watch the ...