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Another chance to see… Top of the Pops
Published 3 February 2022
It’s Number One, it’s Top Of The Pops!
The ghost of Christmas programmes past
Published 24 December 2021
A look back at three-channel Christmas television
Back in time for TV: 1979
Published 21 August 2019
H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1979 to find out what was on the telly…
50 Years of Top of the Pops
Published 1 January 2014
BLOG: How the anniversary of Top of the Pops went little marked
The filth and the fury
Published 24 February 2013
The influence of punk upon television, and the influence of television upon punk
Use it or lose it?
Published 20 November 2008
BBC U-turn on decision to drop Christmas Top of the Pops Given my recent stance on the BBC’s previous decision to drop Top of the Pops from the festive schedule,…
Christmas has been cancelled
Published 29 October 2008
There’s no Christmas without TOTP Put away the tinsel and pack away the tree; Christmas 2008 has just been cancelled. And it’s not because the TV shopping channels insisted on…
All Systems Freeman – 2
Published 31 December 2006
Kif Bowden-Smith continues his personal memoir of Alan Freeman.