Following on from this, ten instances of bands boasting both half and other half. 1) “I got Paul McCartney out of Wings”...
Chris Hughes has mailed Creamguide with his recollections of the 1992 general election: “BBC Parliament’s forthcoming re-run has already brought back grim...
Ahead of Monday’s screening of Election ’92 on BBC Parliament, a few choice images from “the dirtiest campaign in history” (copyright every...
The fact Paddy McAloon is once again going through the wars thanks to illness is unwelcome news indeed. Aside from essaying numerous...
“Take Emlyn Hughes. Please.”
SONG: BEAUTIFUL NIGHT DEFINITION: A post-Anthology Paul feels the urge to pick up his old bass. And then pick up a million...
Ahead of Greg Dyke’s one-off BBC4 documentary on Lord Reith next week, here are five other format ideas, any or all of...
“You should see my Denis Healey.” “I couldn’t possibly,” replies Yarwood.
Now here’s a photo and a half: The date: 26th June 1989. The occasion: Simon Bates departs from outside Broadcasting House to...
Given Russell T Davies’s penchant for reviving more and more Dr Who clutter from the old days, despite saying he’d do no...
It’s pretty much accepted that Peter Kay has jumped the shark. But when precisely did it happen? Here are ten contenders for...
Comic Relief: it’s not the same as it was.
There’s one thing above all else which BBC4’s 1997 week has confirmed, and that’s the way the decade is destined to be...
Broadcasting House is 75 years old this week. The official opening of the second greatest building in the world (after BBC Television...
By way of doffing a Dog On Wheels-sized cap to BBC4’s superb 1997 Week, five of the best programmes of that year:...
SONG: TAKE IT AWAY DEFINITION: Paul invites a few mates round to his parlour for a singalong and, thanks to the help...
26th June 1979: the Beeb’s battery of newsreaders past and present gather to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first television news...
Yet again the proper release of MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS on DVD has been delayed. This has become something of a bugbear...
It seems that when Douglas Adams took over the role of Dr Who script editor in the late 1970s, he made great...
On PM the other day, Eddie Mair quizzed the leader of Essex County Council as to the sincerity of his desire to...
“Welcome to what one could, if so persuaded, be minded to term a palace of pixellated pleasures, a factory of facile fun-seeking...
Whole books have been written about Radio Times graphics, but it’s unlikely anything hailing from the last 12 months would find a...
SONG: COMING UP DEFINITION: Paul achieves his ultimate dream: performing in a band entirely made up of himself. Oh, and Linda. THINGS...
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...
“Life really doesn’t get much better” One of the reasons why Christmas Day television remains so important and unique in the telly...
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