Hacker's Birthday Bash: 30 Years of Children's BBC (2015)

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It's 30 years since CBBC started airing short links between shows. To celebrate, Hacker has brought together the finest presenters, past, present and even a new one, to reminisce and laugh at a few bloopers.

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