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BANNED ADS: A Look At Some Of The Most Risque Ad Campaigns Ever With the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling to outlaw the 'Cactus Kid' Oasis commercials this week, we look at some of the most famous banned adverts in history. Assisted Performance: The Who, What, Why, When And How Assisted performance is a means by which blind or partially sighted people can attend the theatre, the cinema and sporting events independently. Audio description originated in the theatre and was first used in the USA in 1981 and nowadays is even available for TV programmes. AD is used so people with sight difficulties can gather an accurate understanding of events around them. David and Goliath: Glastonbury vs. Boutique festivals Glastonbury festival has been in the news even more than usual this year, tickets are still available prompting organisers to sell the remainder in HMV stores in a last ditch attempt to shift the leftovers. This lull in demand has left Glastonbury organisers pondering just what is putting festivalgoers off an event that has become synonymous with summer in England. Phone Lines Are Now Closed: Giving the Viewer What They Want Or Repackaging What They Have? In the last five years the stream of phone-in talent shows on television has tripled into a raging torrent. Are these programmes a new way of giving the viewer what they want, or just a new way of repackaging what they've got?

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