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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

Seen at 6.30

Published 4 December 2020

Inside Granada’s greatest regional programme, Scene at 6.30

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

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Tuesday 19 March 2024