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The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a "spaghetti tree".
Mar 31, 2022 · Panorama reports from Switzerland, where the combination of a mild winter and the virtual disappearance of pests like the spaghetti weevil, has resulted in a bumper spaghetti crop. ...more.
Mar 27, 2013 · 3.4M views 11 years ago. The spaghetti tree hoax is a famous 3-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current affairs programme Panorama. It told a tale of a family in...
Jan 9, 2024 · To playfully “harvest” the spaghetti, filling wicker baskets and strategically laying out the strands under the sun as if they were being “dried.” The hoax gained an air of authenticity with the involvement of the announcer, Richard Dimbleby.
Mar 29, 2010 · This 1957 clip from Panorama about the pasta harvest brought a whole new dimension to growing your own. Richard Dimbleby carefully explained the process of harvesting spaghetti from the...
Dec 7, 2021 · On April Fools' Day 1957, the BBC program "Panorama" broadcasted a hoax episode that showed a family in Switzerland harvesting a "spaghetti tree." The fake story was narrated by broadcaster Richard Dimbleby, who told viewers all about the yearly "spaghetti harvest" in Switzerland.
Here, Sir Richard Dimbleby gives a formal account of the spaghetti harvest to black and white images of spaghetti gathering. Duration: 58 seconds
