It's not often I buy VHS tapes off Ebay, or indeed anywhere, as more often than not you're on a hiding to nothing. However, I couldn...

In the last year or so, I've written fairly extensively about Pirate TV in the UK. First, there was my interview with one of the foun...

Investigating the contents of VHS tapes can often be a frustrating, unrewarding and absolute waste of time. Several years ago, when I was...

Unbelievably, there were only 13 episodes of Bagpuss produced, and yet it remains one of the most popular and endearing children's te...

It may be a little later than planned - thanks to a combination of other projects and a nasty bout of sinusitis - but the good news is that ...

Here's a very short mashup I created and posted on Twitter back in 2020. It features the characters of Bagpuss playing and dancing a...

  I'm delighted to reveal that my first ever published article features in the March issue of Best of British. The subject of the art...

There was a time, before the emergence of satellite television, that Britain's televisual landscape was a much simpler, uncluttered p...

British children's television in the mid-1980s may have been fantastic, but the amount of children's programming was limited. Acr...