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This is Elstree, part 1

Roddy Buxton on the history and development of ATV's Elstree studios

This is Elstree, part 2

The second part of Roddy Buxton's analysis sees ATV Network, ATV Midlands, Daybreak and Central at Elstree

A is for Alpha

How a former ABC cinema in Aston, Birmingham, became a power house of ITV production.

Paradise Lost Part IV - Central House

Extending the studios as Central launches

Paradise Lost Part III - The Nerve Centre

Roddy Buxton hits the 4th Floor

Paradise Lost Part II - Main Studios

Our exploration of ATV Centre continues

Paradise Lost: The ATV Centre Story - Part I

Goodbye to Broad Street

Inside Lenton Lane

East Midlands television centre

ATV Today - A Midland Montage

The regional story

Cinema for television

From ITC to Euston…

ATV's Television Garden

ATV's Television Garden

Whatever happened to Brookside Close?

Roddy Buxton explores the Brookside set

A trip to Giltbrook

Central News East... or not

Schools & Colleges - 3

From the late 80s to the present

Schools & Colleges - 2

The OU and beyond

Schools & Colleges - 1

The history of educational TV

A trip to Broad Street

1997: time for a final trip around ATV Centre before all the gear is sold off.

Tiptoe through the Startups - 4

Roddy Buxton plunges into the TBS archives one more time.

Tiptoe through the Startups - 3

Roddy Buxton continues his trawl through the Transdiffusion archives

Tiptoe through the Startups - 2

Roddy continues his journey through the Transdiffusion archives.

Tiptoe through the Startups - 1

Roddy Buxton looks into the TBS basement files

Radio

Radio 1 memories

Roddy Buxton remembers

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