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Saturday, 29 April 2023

How I Wrote Lytton’s Diary: Writer Ray Connolly Tells All

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Nearly four decades after its pilot episode aired, Lytton's Diary writer, Ray Connolly, remembers the series being a big hit with the ...
Sunday, 16 April 2023

Curious British Telly Substack Subscription

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Just a quick update to let you know that I’ve decided to try out the paid-subscription option on Substack to deliver exclusive Curious Brit...
Monday, 10 April 2023

The EastEnders Cook Book and Wicksy's Cocktails

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It's debatable if EastEnders , despite running for 38 years now, is still considered a hot property. Nonetheless, when it launched in...
Friday, 7 April 2023

Looking at the Items in Brian Cant’s Bric-A-Brac Shop

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As a preschooler, Bric-a-Brac was easily one of my favourite television programmes and it's a fact which remains true to this day. H...
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Monday, 3 April 2023

Dramarama: Snap

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By Scampy Spiro With folk horror having become the subject of increasing cultural fascination over the past decade (fuelled, in part, by ...
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Tuesday, 28 March 2023

What Was It Like Presenting Why Don't You?

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As a child, hearing the Why Don't You? theme tune meant two fantastic things: firstly, it was the school holidays and, secondly, that...
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Saturday, 25 March 2023

Regional Oddity: Sit Up & Listen

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Much like the concept of ringing our friends on a landline for a chat, the TV closedown is another archaic reminder of a very different l...
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Monday, 20 March 2023

Book Review: Travel Without the Tardis

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Before you read any further, please prepare yourself. A statement which can only be described as a bombshell of epic proportions is a...
Friday, 17 February 2023

The Life of a Runner on The Children's Channel in the 1980s

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Around a year ago, I published an article about The Launch of The Children's Channel in 1984 and, in one of those wonderful this-is-why...
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