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My niece was born on the day Paul Daniels died so every year I check his Wikipedia page to remind me how old she is before I buy her birthday card
As with all events, when the Beeb lost the rights it was a disaster for the Beeb and when they got them back it was a minor event nobody else wanted
It's also bollocks, because when it was on ITV in the noughties it wasn't on BBC Radio, it was on LBC pressgazette.co.uk/archive-cont...
Said this before, but Arthur Askey's first TV appearance was on Baird's experimental transmissions and his last was on Channel Four
You can see that on Pops when they show a performance from the German version, you can always tell them apart because the direction is dreadful
All foreign TV pop shows look a bit weird because in the UK we direct music by counting the bars, whereas elsewhere in the world they don't bother, which is why so many big worldwide TV shows have British directors
I mean, I was there when they were losing to Alfreton and Dartford, if that helps
Amazing amount of live TV on all channels today, including Channel Four live from 8am to 9pm
Easy to forget how different The Challenge Programme (to give it its official title) was to the usual shiny floor Saturday night fare, in many ways a trailblazer for the factual entertainment that we see lots of now
Moved around a bit, it was on Fridays in 89, Saturdays in 90 and 91, Fridays in 92, Saturdays in 93 and 94 and Sundays in 95
We absolutely loved that first series on a Friday, and went off it a bit when they started giving away the challenges in the Radio Times whereas initially they were a secret
My other half hates all the songs on Top of the Pops, but that was her least favourite of the night
I bought that 1000 Clowns track at the time and helped it get to that all important number 23 position, then haven't listened to it in the 27 years since. Still like the flute in it, at least #totp
Kula Shaker still having hits in 1999 probably a bigger surprise than Shaun Ryder still being alive
That was a really weird slot on Radio 1 cos they did their airplay chart at 2pm, then Jayne's Pops show that played all the same songs, then the Top 40 started with the previous week's top ten so you heard all the same songs for the third time in just over an hour
The one week everyone was pleased to see Boyzone go straight in at number one
What a nice name for apple theft
They’re remaking Lovejoy?
Pleased with the latest Word Nerds production
I was pleased when the editor of the Metro a few years ago said he modelled the paper on Today
I always associate Today was going on holiday because we would buy it when we were away in lieu of the Evening Leader
"Hello, my name's John, I'll have a Today newspaper please"
Had a dream Francis Rossi was banging on our door because he was walking past and started having a heart attack and wanted us to call an ambulance
Funnily enough I saw Woman and Woman's Own in the newsagent the other day and thought how pleased I was they were still going. And, inevitably, sung the "W-O-M-A-N! Exciting again!" jingle to myself
We faithfully referred to everything I had on order at the newsagents as "my comics" even when the order included Private Eye and Q
Used to be a big fan of the News of the World for Charlie Catchpole, Cap'n Cash and the comic strips in the Sunday mag
Used to read absolutely everything when I was a kid, from my sister's My Guy to my mum's Best
My laughter on this
He was on Breakfast this morning, stand down
