IT’S WEDNESDAY. IT’S TEN PAST FIVE. It’s time for another boring kids drama on BBC1. After figuring out for yourself that it’s tennis-based, note that it pitted one working class oik whose dad though tennis was for poofs against one upper class minx whose parents think tennis was for Americans. Subsequent clay court chicanery educated both about tennis and, hey, themselves. STEPHEN YARDLEY played the shouty father.
Break Point
1982 on BBC1
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The People’s Songs
Wednesday, 22.00, BBC Radio 2This series certainly isn’t just aiming for the standard Radio 2 demographic as it’s been true to its word of covering the entire sphere of post-war British pop, and we mark the halfway point with another more recent tune in Cigarettes And Alcohol. The reason it’s here is because it became the unofficial anthem of the new lad, a movement that seemed quite exciting at the time. Remarkably Loaded is still going, even though we haven’t got a clue who reads it, but it’s probably still more relevant than the world’s worst magazine, the truly appalling GQ.
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