Jeremy Rogers

Kensitas pre war were sold in packets of "four and twenty". The extra four were in a small packet of their own which you could detach and give to a friend. So the marketing went anyway.

Players No 6 were short cigarettes by modern standards, the same length as Woodbines but aimed at young people. Embassy was the quick replacement for Strand after the infamous advertising campaign disaster.

Players No 6. 4/- filter, 4/9 plain.

I dunno there was a bit of variation on price mainly from how much tobacco there was in them. Plus of course how many coupons you might get.

"Switch to Richmond. Only four and three for 20."

It took until December 1976 for BBC East Midlands contributions to be in colour. I think Bangor may have been the last BBC outpost to be converted.

Having said that though it was recertified to a 15 for cinema & home around 2001. (Previously X & 18 respectively.)

BBFC content description has a degree of "strongness": "There is a long sex scene between a husband and wife, which shows them in various sexual positions. There are a few shots showing thrusting, as well as sight of the naked couple embracing and being physically close."

BBFC has it as a 15 for its 2012 release & its original certificate was AA. Something extra here?

Some in Equity had the idea in the late 50s that video taping would inevitably lead to broadcasters stockpiling programmes then repeating the death out of them for years not making anything new putting actors out of work. Maybe they were thinking of Watch with Mother.

The real reason Mary Poppins was uprated by the BBFC to a PG.

"This listing contains language that some might find offensive." For every Dick Van Dyke entry.

With Dick Van Dyke nearing 100, maybe the BBC will one day clear up the Scunthorpe problem they have with his name in their programme index. (It is the Dyke part of his name that's the problem rather than the Dick if that matters.)

Multi member council ward. You have as many X's as there are councillors to elect. On my town council I have 7 to put in.

There are two successful ways for live actors to work well with Muppets - entirely straight or like you are a Muppet. Nothing in-between really works.

Back in the 1960s as a child I was first of all put on ephedrine and courses of hypnosis. An odd combination really.

The dogma for some years now has been to reduce regular use of blue inhalers to close to nothing by use of steroid inhalers (or the likes of montelukast which has different potential side effects) It is square peg of a person's needs against the round hole of set procedure.

Answer the phone with a recorded message loop that repeats "you are number 5 in the queue".

Audience claimed was around 250k, which I guess is all the lectures added together. Even an audience average of 40k per lecture is remarkable considering the unfamiliarity of watching TV at that time of day.

This article, probably understandably, omits the role of David Grugeon of the Socialist Education Association & the National Extension College as a moving force in this experiment. There were some additional closed-circuit lectures mounted that week as well as the broadcast ones.

Murder Before Evensong on C5 is supposed to be set in the late 1980s but there is little in the way the set is dressed or dialogue mentions that fixes it in that era. It could be 20 years earlier.

Scratches? Gouged more like. Played with a chisel.

Philip Elsmore on Beyond Tomorrow

Just happened to have it on hand ...

America had some live drama production from New York with a Broadway tradition in the early day but that was effectively already dead before videotape. It was missed by some even then.

As a contrast early ITV stockpiled film drama before it started through a scarcity of multi-camera studios for making it live. They apologised promising they'd make more studio stuff as soon as they could. That was what TV was thought to be - a performance. Even tape recording didn't change that.

As shown here the notional coverage area of BBCtv Holme Moss 2V was vast. However, particularly in summer the effective area could become very much less, down to no more than 30 miles arising in the main from Sporadic E interference. Band III relays helped later from Winter Hill & Belmont.

If asthma is poorly controlled you still qualify. No consideration that your asthma might well become poorly controlled through catching COVID - which happened to me back in 2022. I needed a drug regime change for the first time in 40 years to recover control which is significantly more expensive.

Pigeon on the right of an aerial listing at 45 degrees.

Aerial photography. One really heavy pigeon doing all the damage.

BBC News currently showing what looks like an interesting report, but the subtitles are underneath the banner for most of it. Does anyone from the control room keep an eye on what *actually* goes out?

The 2000 crowd that turned up for the opening would have known Sid James but not many would be familiar with Tesco as this store in Leicester was the first outside of the Hone Counties.

Enhanced by the Foehn effect possibly.

Although it reached 84F/29C widely across London on 6 October 1921. Prolonged exceptionally warm spell that lasted a week in Southern England with that as the peak day.