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Don’t stop this book
Published 3 November 2023
An ‘on this day in history’ book about pop? Great. A meticulously researched and thus accurate for once ‘on this day in history’ book about pop? Yes please!
Another chance to see… regional ITV
Published 21 July 2023
What’s on ITV tonight? There was once over a dozen answers to this question
The easy-chair election
Published 4 May 2023
How Granada and ABC will be handling the 1959 general election
Granada goes to Rochdale
Published 7 April 2023
How a by-election in Lancashire made all elections TV elections
Getting people and places together
Published 25 January 2021
The trials and tribulations of getting the people to the places for Granada’s nightly magazine show
Talk of Thames
Published 30 July 2018
Celebrating 50 years of London’s Weekday ITV: Thames – a talent for television
Rodney drops a brick
Published 13 March 2018
Granada stars working on a building site are imagined in this twaddle from the TVTimes in 1958
You, too, can have your own TV circuit
Published 5 July 2017
Television cameras around the home, recording their every move? 1962 celebrities say yes please!
Introducing… Bill Grundy
Published 25 April 2017
The Radio Times in 1969 speaks to ‘It’s Saturday’ presenter Bill Grundy
The filth and the fury
Published 24 February 2013
The influence of punk upon television, and the influence of television upon punk