Jackanory
Bedtime stories. They may disappear. But they always come back.
Play for Today
We said goodbye to Play for Today in 1984. These are some of my favourite milestones in the strand of dramas.
IBA Engineering Announcements
Always a ghost programme to begin with, the IBA Engineering Announcements are now truly a ghost.
Puppets without strings
Sock puppets are in the news this week. Not the Internet sort. The real sort.
Puppets with strings
When you were busy watching an International Rescue organisation save the world week after week, you could soon forget they were only puppets. Unless you saw the strings.
Little animated cygnets
Remember those cute animated 2s that used to breeze across the TV screen before you watched a BBC2 programme? They’ve gone.
Rediffusion
It’s not an instruction. It’s not a suggestion. It’s the name of a company that once put cables beneath our city streets. The company is long gone but its ghosts are still there.
Interludes
Once we had Interludes between the pieces of our live TV broadcasts. Nowadays, we no longer need them. Or maybe we still do…?
Television Beside Itself
Has BBC Television ever been more excited than when it began colour transmissions? Possibly not.
The Listener
Published by the BBC, the main aim of The Listener was to disseminate talks and lectures broadcast by the BBC. The title of the magazine reflects the fact that, at the time, you had to listen to the BBC because it only broadcast on the radio.
We Just Had These... 