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The BBC Breakfast team, past and present, look back at iconic moments from the very first episode on 17 January 1983.

Russell Grant, Debbie Rix and Francis Wilson are among the familiar faces returning to the red sofa.

Since records began. official figures show the memoir sold more than 467 thousand copies in its first week. it had already broken the record for the fastest selling non fiction book on the first day of publication. 40 years ago today the first breakfast time programme was broadcast on the bbc. it was the dawning of a new era, bringing breakfast telly to uk screens for the first time. 0ur arts corrrespondent david sillito looks back. good morning! don't worry, you haven't missed 40 years and something's gone wrong. we are celebrating 40 years today since the first edition of breakfast. a celebr...

I was getting ready for school and put the television on and could not believe the news was on the television. television started at lunchtime in those days. you remember it particularly well. i have an aide memoir. should i call you adrian mole? i recently found my diary from that time. in among the stories about having a cold sore and trying to get out of pe, let me show you. i actually wrote on the 17th of january, 1983, about watching the very first edition of bbc breakfast time. my writing is messy now. talking about watching tv, having cornflakes. not believing this opportunity. and here...

It's not like the six 0'clock news. it's not the ten 0'clock news. and that's notjust true of us. but i look across the media landscape at breakfast time, and whether you're talking about us or any of our rivals, you see that same sort of mix at breakfast. i can onlyjudge it based on the reaction we get from our audience, and that's why programmes like newswatch are of value. the emails we get in, the tweets that i see, the audiences contacting viewer complaints. we take all those things on board. i think, look, news is often subjective to many people. everybody has a view about what you shoul...