SIR FRED HARRIS makes his first proper appearance in our A-Z, here presiding over an agreeably strange maths show. In-studio chats mixed to schoolkids on location, but the best bits were the abstract animations on topics like binary notation, area and geometry, played out to the off-kilter prog-blues of seventies maverick composer RON GEESIN.
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Top of the Pops
Thursday, 19.30, 01.05, BBC4For the first time in a while, two consecutive episodes, so it’s a completely different line-up to the last time and some belated debuts for Ian Dury and Sham 69 who we’d have otherwise seen two weeks ago, in a classic Pops juxtaposition with another Cilla flop and the first appearance of a record that, even skipping all the Savile and Travis episodes, you’re going to hear a hell of lot over the next few months.
Although I’m not the biggest fan of electronic music, to me Ron Geesin is little short of a God, if only for the album he made with Roger Waters, ‘the Body’. Now there’s a film that needs cleaning up for a DVD release!