Timeslip was first broadcast in the UK in 1970. The four-part series shot two kids – Liz and Simon – back and forth through time as they fought to save planet earth. While recorded in colour, all but one survive as black and white episodes. Take a trip back to 1970 and 1971 and re-live […]
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From modest beginnings to becoming a household name in the UK, comedy actor Tony Selby enjoyed a career that included stage, TV, and motion pictures. This profile is a clip from my review of Ace of Wands, the show that gave Tony his big TV break.
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In this episode of The Channel I look at movies and documentaries that feature radio stations and DJs. Among them is FM, Talk Radio, Good Morning Vietnam, and others… Plus a bonus item after the credits.
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Children of the Stones is a scary children’s TV serial produced by HTV and first broadcast in 1977. It follows father and son (Adam and Mathew Brake) as they arrive in the Wiltshire village of Avebury to study Neolithic standing stones. There, they find the villagers under a mysterious spell. Stars Gareth Thomas (Blake’s 7)
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In the latest episode of The Channel I’m reviewing a cult movie that looks like it was made in the sixties, but was actually made in the mid-1980s. This classic film, loaded with one-liners and laugh-out-loud scenes, features the first motion picture appearances of Richard E Grant and Paul McGann. It flopped when it was
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Many of us who watched the Ace of Wands when it was first broadcast have fond memories of the show, unfortunately, when it comes to the first two series – that’s basically all we have. Of the show’s 46 episodes, first broadcast in the UK from 1970 to 1972, only 20 remain. And I think
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In this edition of The Channel I take a look at the first incarnation of Thames TV’s The Tomorrow People. The show’s original line-up included Nicholas Young, Stephen Salmon, and Peter Vaughan-Clarke. The Tomorrow People was first broadcast in 1973, and is still going strong today thanks to books, reboots, and audio dramas. See my
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This post follows my last one on buying vinyl records as a teenager. It’s about cassette tapes, of which I still have a few – some dating back to the 1970s. Receiving a cassette tape recorder one Christmas I was at last able to record stuff and play it back. I started by recording the
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There’s one thing today’s generation of music buyers is missing. The joy of receiving a box of random seven-inch singles from juke box heaven. As a kid I’d spend my entire weekly pocket money, the reward for a range of domestic chores, on one single. Making my choice from the top 40 was the week’s
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Most of us will put a good few hours into each show we present. We walk into the studio with a good idea of not only what we are going to play, but in which order each track will be played. Then the show starts and something strange happens. What seemed the perfect running order
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In this edition of The Channel I take a step back in time to look at the James Bond movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. It was the only James Bond motion picture to feature the real life action man, model, and actor George Lazenby. However, while the movie slightly missed the mark when it
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In this episode of The Channel I’m taking a look at a movie that was first released in 1971. It was the first major motion picture from George Lucas, and it bombed at the cinema. In fact, it was all the executives at Warner Brothers could do to release it at all, they were so
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In this short-and-sweet episode I suggest two apps to record and edit your podcast. One is completely free and the other has a generous free trial period that will give you plenty of time to experiment and try it out. OcenAudio is a superb free app and Reaper provides a fully-featured and robust alternative to Audition and ProTools
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