Ken goes out and about on Euston Road to do a bit of Video Show promotion.
Lew prepares for another quiet, unassuming day at the office.
A few snaps from last night’s bash: 1) Introducing the hardline according to Noel Edmonds 2) Una paloma wanker 3) “Pebble Mill...
Quite possibly the greatest publicity image ever.
Dineage over Britain.
To mark the long-awaited return* of News At Ten: *Well, until Friday at any rate.
OK, here’s a bunch of LWT’s finest in 1984. Suggestions please as to: a) who these people are, and b) who these...
One of these men has worked tirelessly to make the world a better place through inspiring musical statements, mammoth live events and...
“You say it’s your birthday?”
“And for the most of the country, it all starts on the 2nd of November: all right?” 1) The launch of the...
February 1978: the new face of the Radio 1 breakfast show poses with The Broadcasting House Alarm Clock.
This weekend’s multiple anniversary commemorations have already got off to a sparkling start with an edition of Friday Night Is Music Night...
ITV faces go on a motoring excursion to meet their public. Why doesn’t this sort of thing happen anymore?* *Because there aren’t...
Ah, the dream breakfast line-up. Except it was on the fussily-named London Newstalk Radio (one of the many many convoluted rebrands of...
Few people embody more of the essence of TV Cream than Rolf Harris, and few things embody more of the jet-setting glitter-bound...
To mark the man’s (inevitable) return to football presentation… 1) Des hooks up with Henry Kelly and the actor T.P. McKenna for...
It’s 5th February 1989, and gathered for the first day of term at Isleworth are Uncle Rupert along along with Andrew Neil,...
It’s May 1988, and the Beeb decide to publicise their new computerised forward-looking high-tech weather maps…by dressing their forecasters up in the...
Can it really only be 10 not-long-enough years since Learner Driver From Hell Maureen Rees gave masterclasses in car maintenance as part...
Petulant to the last, Michael “Mike” Parkinson has decided that, “after 25 years of doing my talk show”, he’s had enough. Nice...
The saviours of daytime radio, c. 1993.
On the set of Double Your Money in 1966. What a dilemma: ‘Ballet’ or ‘Bible’?
Here’s where Russell T Davies has been going wrong. Bailing out after three and a bit series? Pah! JNT was there for,...
In the future, everyone will pose for photos like this.
Tel essays the first Eurovision supergroup: A couple of visitors to the verdant pastures of Shepherd’s Bush Green: Tel tries the old...
Frostie admires his favourite view.
Mrs Thatcher buys some cheese, 1979: 1981: the Gang of Four step out. Inside the Press Association’s results room, 1964: 1959: SuperMac...
Shirley Williams and her nancies: Simon Cadell, Robert Powell, Steve Race, Barry Cryer (with beard!), Denis Quilley, Richard Attenborough and Bamber Gascoigne.
“…they surely do!”
“I could never resist a photo opportunity.”
“Take Emlyn Hughes. Please.”
“You should see my Denis Healey.” “I couldn’t possibly,” replies Yarwood.
Comic Relief: it’s not the same as it was.
26th June 1979: the Beeb’s battery of newsreaders past and present gather to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first television news...
“Welcome to what one could, if so persuaded, be minded to term a palace of pixellated pleasures, a factory of facile fun-seeking...
Tel and Jim in no way conforming to type.
Perhaps the greatest publicity photo ever. A dazzling array of stars, including a cardboard Des O’Connor and the dog from Never The...
Esther unveils new That’s Life reporting team.
“Husbands, be sure to always let your wife know that you think about her occasionally: grind your teeth.”
The most important man in light entertainment. And Noel Edmonds.
Ee gads!
Two questions: a) which one’s Nesta, and b) who are the New Romantics just back from Sainsbury’s?
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