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Dedicated, Inseparable, Invincible (Except When Confronted With Carnivorous...
Watching The Fierce Flowers again - which isn't easy, as the DVDs have been out of print for quite some time - the first thing you notice is that each episode of Battle Of The Planets originally opened...
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Dedicated, Inseparable, Invincible (Except When Confronted With Carnivorous...
Roger Finn thundering through the 'Broom Cupboard' and telling a departing Andy Crane live on air that he'd done a "bloody good job". Caron Keating more or less having an orgasm whilst getting a...
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Dedicated, Inseparable, Invincible (Except When Confronted With Carnivorous...
As we've already discussed at some considerable real-Nesmith-hatted length here, the BBC didn't in fact commence their early eighties repeats of The Monkees with the actual first episode, Royal Flush,...
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There's So Much More Than TV Times...
Yes, it's ITV's 60th Birthday - and to celebrate, we're actually going to be nice about them for once!No, really - to mark this momentous milestone in the broadcasting history of the makers of TV's...
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The Wind Cries (Mickey) Murphy
Those of you who've been following my ramblings for a while might just have noticed that I have a slight tendency to occasionally tie in musings and theorising on sociocultural phenomena with BBC Test...
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"Well, I Like Cool It!... And I Like Cool Head... But Which Is Best...?"
Just a quick note to say that I'll be on Music Mill FM at around 9pm tonight talking about BBC-To-ITV defections and vice versa in the wake of Robert Peston's recent ship-jumping whilst cunningly...
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Doctor Who: One Glorious Year
You can't move for tenuous Doctor Who'anniversaries' nowadays, but what happened on that very first one way back in November 1963? Did anything even happen at all? Would the BBC have noticed, or even...
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Let's Go Round Again
Let's Go Round Again - The Story Of The Magic Roundabout is on BBC Radio 4 at 4pm on Monday 12th October. I've contributed to this as a researcher and interviewee, and knowing a bit about the show's...
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Let's Go Round Again: A Deep Shade Of Blue
To tie in with Let's Go Round Again - The Story Of The Magic Roundabout (which you can find out more about here), here's a feature on Dougal And The Blue Cat that originally appeared in issue fourteen...
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Let's Go Round Again: Time For Not Bed
This is the first of three The Magic Roundabout-covering extracts from Here Is A Box, an unfinished attempt at a full-length book taking a bizarre Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance-style...
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Let's Go Round Again: And The Ones That Florence Gives You Don't Do Anything...
A second extract from Here Is A Box, this time looking at a spate of rave records inspired by or indeed directly samplingThe Magic Roundabout. It must have been something in the water. As indeed must...
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Let's Go Round Again: Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles (Avec Les Chevilles Sur...
The third and final extract from the section of Here Is A Box looking at The Magic Roundabout - after this it went into an equally strange diversion about hip-hop turntablists extending the 'breaks' in...
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Trick? Or Treat?
In case you hadn't worked out from the sheer deluge of people changing their Twitter names to 'scary' variants back in late August whilst simultaneously moaning about everyone mentioning Christmas too...
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It's Still A Police Box, Why Hasn't It Changed? Part One: Breakin' Down The...
Let's face it, pretty much everyone in the known universe is doing their own heavily annotated from-the-start Doctor Who rewatch nowadays. And probably everyone in E-Space too.And yes, as you've...
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Fun At One - Exclusive Personalised Edition!
If you'd like the chance of own a special edition of Fun At One - The Story Of Comedy At BBC Radio 1 - signed, with a mystery extra bit, and most importantly a free one-off CD with sleevenotes...
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"...And This Is Our Two Hundredth Edition!"
Well, it looks like this is the two hundredth post on this blog. And to celebrate, I've put together something rather special...Back in the sixties and seventies, especially in the throes of the...
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Doctor Who Fan Wars, 1964 Style
Although there's a lot to be said for the simpler, less media-intensive times in which the likes of Doctor Who, Monty Python and The Kinks put in their earliest appearances, the unfortunate flipside to...
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All The Fun Of The Flares
If there ever was a happy medium between the ha ha ha ha look at the big telly like they used to have in school shhhhhhhh fingers on lips!! work night out lol abba are so retro banality of I Love The...
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You Belong In Rock'n'Roll
So why, at an all time career height of popularity, did David Bowie see fit to form his much-derided band Tin Machine? Well, if you believe the average prat writing a boxout list at the foot of an...
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Higher Than The Sun
Higher Than The Sun is a book by me about four albums released late in 1991 - Screamadelica by Primal Scream, Foxbase Alpha by Saint Etienne, Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub and Loveless by My Bloody...
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