Tel and Jim in no way conforming to type.
Among the scores of reasons why the 1980s was the best decade ever, its crop of strikingly exhilarating swearwords is rarely mentioned....
It’s precisely 50 years since the first edition of TONIGHT, the Beeb’s topical teatime tryst helmed by the impeccable, unflappable, infinitely three-piece-suitable...
There aren’t that many cads on television anymore. By way of louche-sized salute to the finest blackguards ever to parade across the...
Perhaps the greatest publicity photo ever. A dazzling array of stars, including a cardboard Des O’Connor and the dog from Never The...
Welcome to the first in an occasional series paying tribute to the promotional video versatility of James Paul McCartney. #1: PRESS DEFINITION:...
Seasoned listeners to the Today programme will be familiar with sports presenter Garry Richardson’s waspish wit and laconic delivery of even the...
This hails from when the Oldie Magazine gave Ken Livingstone (moustachioed, therefore pre-Blair) an award for “servives to the homeless and secretarial...
Esther unveils new That’s Life reporting team.
To herald the news that Mars Bars are no longer to be marketed to the under-12s (a situation which will clearly lead...
1) THE HAIRY YEARS DATES: 19whenever-1972 FEATS: Getting here, getting noticed and getting on. Winding up Germaine Greer. Starting a TV column...
There is but a year until TV-am’s 25th anniversary , so what better time to start pencilling in a few putative signings...
“Husbands, be sure to always let your wife know that you think about her occasionally: grind your teeth.”
An opportunity seems to be presenting itself for British acting talent to go on winning awards for ever, solely off the back...
Hearing Blur’s ‘Sunday Sunday’ on the radio earlier today served as a reminder of how rare it is – still – to...
The most important man in light entertainment. And Noel Edmonds.
The Beeb seemed to take on the guise of an absent-minded Charlie Drake-esque professor in the late 70s, putting things down then...
One of the new series announced as part of BBC4’s spring season received curiously little attention from the press. Everything You Always...
Over three decades ago now, the future BBC Director General and then MD of Radio Ian Trethowan accused Sir Jimmy Young of...
Ee gads!
Doggedly clingling onto her slot like a petulant barnacle, it appears Radio 2’s resident Old Mrs Clutterbritches is immune to the upheavals...
Off the back of news that ITV is persisting in its bizarre policy of showing archive episodes of a densely-plotted, highly-cerebral detective...
Listen to what the man said: “It’s best to stay silent – that way you keep your dignity.” Despite a rough few...
Two questions: a) which one’s Nesta, and b) who are the New Romantics just back from Sainsbury’s?
One thing above all else can be guaranteed to unfold in 2007: a bumper load of anniversaries. For starters it’s 25 years...
In the summer of 2002, what was then Radio Cream Times (later to become Digi-Cream Times) spent a thankless six months schlepping...
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