Tag: bbc1

• What the hell happened to my Saturday morning television shows?

  For schoolkids of every decade, Saturday morning is freedom. For me, it was television too. But then, isn’t television one of the most effective ways of escape? It can take you away from your problems, even for the twenty minutes or so your favourite soap and sitcom lasts. For me, Saturday morning television was as…

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• Wogan, 1985. The Grace Jones Moment.

  One image has stuck to my brain from childhood, one of many, but this one stayed a little stronger and lasted a little longer. For years I remembered a figure wrapped in bandages in front of a microphone. The lights moved, the music started, and they – whoever they were – slowly began to unpeel…

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