Scarred For Life
@scarredforlife.bsky.social
A trilogy of books and a podcast about the dark pop culture of the 1970s and 1980s, from public information films to nuclear war!
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Listen to the podcast: pod.link/1706291698
Contact: [email protected]
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Happy 50th birthday, Protect and Survive! A booklet full of bogus advice and a PIF series that was thankfully never shown (if it had, we'd have been hurtling towards a nuclear war), it still holds a special place in our hearts...
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Happy 50th birthday, Protect and Survive! A booklet full of bogus advice and a PIF series that was thankfully never shown (if it had, we'd have been hurtling towards a nuclear war), it still holds a special place in our hearts...
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RAINBOW (1972) was originally conceived as Britain's answer to Sesame Street, and Geoffrey, George, Zippy and Bungle would eventually become household names. But the first series featured a maniacal, wide-eyed, terrifying prototype of cuddly old Bungle Bear...
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
RAINBOW (1972) was originally conceived as Britain's answer to Sesame Street, and Geoffrey, George, Zippy and Bungle would eventually become household names. But the first series featured a maniacal, wide-eyed, terrifying prototype of cuddly old Bungle Bear...
What an absolute (nuclear) blast that was! If you missed it, I was on BBC Breakfast at around 8.40am talking about nuclear war - check it out on iPlayer! A huge thank you to Sally Nugent, Jon Kay, and the entire team.
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
What an absolute (nuclear) blast that was! If you missed it, I was on BBC Breakfast at around 8.40am talking about nuclear war - check it out on iPlayer! A huge thank you to Sally Nugent, Jon Kay, and the entire team.
I'll be BBC Breakfast this morning at 8.30am talking about Protect and Survive and nuclear war!
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I'll be BBC Breakfast this morning at 8.30am talking about Protect and Survive and nuclear war!
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November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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LOOK AFTER YOURSELF - AGING MAN (1977): An alarming, and alarmist, PIF warning of the dangers of overeating stodgy food and not exercising enough. Oh, and peer pressure. Don't succumb to peer pressure, kids!
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
LOOK AFTER YOURSELF - AGING MAN (1977): An alarming, and alarmist, PIF warning of the dangers of overeating stodgy food and not exercising enough. Oh, and peer pressure. Don't succumb to peer pressure, kids!
OINK! (1986): Brilliantly subversive kid's comic which featured strips from Charlie Brooker, Tony Husband, Frank Sidebottom, and Marc 'Lard' Riley. Caused a proper stink at the time; WH Smith eventually moved it to the top shelf!
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
OINK! (1986): Brilliantly subversive kid's comic which featured strips from Charlie Brooker, Tony Husband, Frank Sidebottom, and Marc 'Lard' Riley. Caused a proper stink at the time; WH Smith eventually moved it to the top shelf!
Pink Floyd's ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL, PART 2 was 1979's Christmas number one, and still topped the charts in January, seeing in the new decade with its bleak, scary video. The teacher! The mincing machine! The hammers! Welcome to the 80s.
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Pink Floyd's ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL, PART 2 was 1979's Christmas number one, and still topped the charts in January, seeing in the new decade with its bleak, scary video. The teacher! The mincing machine! The hammers! Welcome to the 80s.
Gronda! Gronda! THE ADVENTURE GAME (1980) saw celebs try to escape from the planet Arg. Each episode culminated with the Vortex, a pulsating column of light which 'evaporated' the likes of Bonnie Langford and Richard Stilgoe. Don't worry, kids, they're not dead. Doogy Rev!
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Gronda! Gronda! THE ADVENTURE GAME (1980) saw celebs try to escape from the planet Arg. Each episode culminated with the Vortex, a pulsating column of light which 'evaporated' the likes of Bonnie Langford and Richard Stilgoe. Don't worry, kids, they're not dead. Doogy Rev!
HORROR TOP TRUMPS (1978): Colossally gruesome sets, featuring blood, gore, and dismemberment. A playground classic. And it's like two games in one: can you name all the film and TV images homaged by the cards?
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
HORROR TOP TRUMPS (1978): Colossally gruesome sets, featuring blood, gore, and dismemberment. A playground classic. And it's like two games in one: can you name all the film and TV images homaged by the cards?
NOBODY'S HOUSE (1976): Children's comedy drama from ITV about a family who moves into a haunted antiques shop. The ghost in question is 'Nobody', a 14-year-old Victorian orphan who died of the plague in the building's basement, back when it was a workhouse. It's a comedy, honest!
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
NOBODY'S HOUSE (1976): Children's comedy drama from ITV about a family who moves into a haunted antiques shop. The ghost in question is 'Nobody', a 14-year-old Victorian orphan who died of the plague in the building's basement, back when it was a workhouse. It's a comedy, honest!
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Leeds and West Yorkshire weirdies! We are bringing the @scarredforlife.bsky.social Folk Horror show to @oldwoollen.bsky.social in Farsley on Thu 12th Feb - one of our favourite venues, we had an absolute blast last time around. Join ussss.... oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/scarre...
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Leeds and West Yorkshire weirdies! We are bringing the @scarredforlife.bsky.social Folk Horror show to @oldwoollen.bsky.social in Farsley on Thu 12th Feb - one of our favourite venues, we had an absolute blast last time around. Join ussss.... oldwoollen.seetickets.com/event/scarre...
RAVEN (1977): HTV's brilliant Arthurian Folk Horror eco-drama for kids starring Phil (Quadrophenia) Daniels as a troubled borstal boy who may be the reincarnation of King Arthur. Nuclear anxiety, stone circles, and New Age mysticism abound!
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
RAVEN (1977): HTV's brilliant Arthurian Folk Horror eco-drama for kids starring Phil (Quadrophenia) Daniels as a troubled borstal boy who may be the reincarnation of King Arthur. Nuclear anxiety, stone circles, and New Age mysticism abound!
The bloody opening scenes from SCARF JACK (1981), a brilliant but obscure ITV drama about the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the Brits as the villains, and airing slap bang in the middle of the Troubles. Dead kids strewn everywhere at 4.45 in the afternoon - it was a kid's show!
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The bloody opening scenes from SCARF JACK (1981), a brilliant but obscure ITV drama about the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the Brits as the villains, and airing slap bang in the middle of the Troubles. Dead kids strewn everywhere at 4.45 in the afternoon - it was a kid's show!
Thanks to countless scenes of peril in films, TV shows, books and comics, I thought quicksand would feature in my life a lot more than it did. Parker Bros. even released QUICKSAND the board game in 1989! The playing pieces cleverly came apart to replicate sinking into oblivion...
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Thanks to countless scenes of peril in films, TV shows, books and comics, I thought quicksand would feature in my life a lot more than it did. Parker Bros. even released QUICKSAND the board game in 1989! The playing pieces cleverly came apart to replicate sinking into oblivion...
This early 70s Sesame Street animation is my very first childhood scar! Aged 3 (I think - it's also one of my earliest memories), I *really* didn't like the numbers rushing towards me, or the sounds they made. I think I thought they'd smash through the TV screen! What was your earliest telly scar?
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This early 70s Sesame Street animation is my very first childhood scar! Aged 3 (I think - it's also one of my earliest memories), I *really* didn't like the numbers rushing towards me, or the sounds they made. I think I thought they'd smash through the TV screen! What was your earliest telly scar?
Raise a glass of blood to the televisual horror of the Scarred For Life era...
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Raise a glass of blood to the televisual horror of the Scarred For Life era...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A quick reminder that this 15% discount ends at midnight tomorrow!
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DARKADE IS OVER 70% FUNDED!
Big thanks to all who've backed so far, Darkade is officially over 70% funded. Hoping me and @christiandibari.bsky.social get to share our nasty story. We've also a host of exciting additional extras such as artwork from @thisisfunart and @scarredforlife.bsky.social
Big thanks to all who've backed so far, Darkade is officially over 70% funded. Hoping me and @christiandibari.bsky.social get to share our nasty story. We've also a host of exciting additional extras such as artwork from @thisisfunart and @scarredforlife.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
DARKADE IS OVER 70% FUNDED!
Big thanks to all who've backed so far, Darkade is officially over 70% funded. Hoping me and @christiandibari.bsky.social get to share our nasty story. We've also a host of exciting additional extras such as artwork from @thisisfunart and @scarredforlife.bsky.social
Big thanks to all who've backed so far, Darkade is officially over 70% funded. Hoping me and @christiandibari.bsky.social get to share our nasty story. We've also a host of exciting additional extras such as artwork from @thisisfunart and @scarredforlife.bsky.social
A rich vein of Folk Horror ran all the way through WORZEL GUMMIDGE (1979). And one of its most horrific characters was Worzel's own creation: Dafthead!
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A rich vein of Folk Horror ran all the way through WORZEL GUMMIDGE (1979). And one of its most horrific characters was Worzel's own creation: Dafthead!
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Christmas is coming, and our books make perfect pressies! Get a huge 15% discount off our print books with the case-sensitive code CUSTOMBOOK15 until midnight on Friday November 14!
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Christmas is coming, and our books make perfect pressies! Get a huge 15% discount off our print books with the case-sensitive code CUSTOMBOOK15 until midnight on Friday November 14!
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Also available as colour eBooks.
Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife
Fresh meat was as precious as gold bullion back in the 70s. According, that is, to Letraset's dizzyingly exciting THE SWEENEY Super Action Transfers, which allowed kids to create violent scenes based on the classic post-watershed cop show. This meat blag is *carnage*, guv!
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Fresh meat was as precious as gold bullion back in the 70s. According, that is, to Letraset's dizzyingly exciting THE SWEENEY Super Action Transfers, which allowed kids to create violent scenes based on the classic post-watershed cop show. This meat blag is *carnage*, guv!
GRIM TALES (1989): Rik Mayall is magnificenly unhinged (of course!) as the storyteller in this glorious children's show, performing the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales like a live action Looney Tune. Written by Anne Caulfield and Anthony (Dramarama, Robin of Sherwood, Crime Traveller) Horowitz.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
GRIM TALES (1989): Rik Mayall is magnificenly unhinged (of course!) as the storyteller in this glorious children's show, performing the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales like a live action Looney Tune. Written by Anne Caulfield and Anthony (Dramarama, Robin of Sherwood, Crime Traveller) Horowitz.
Check out the brilliant teaser for PLAY TO DEATH, @manoghosts.bsky.social new podcast about the dark side of videogaming. The first guest is... me!
youtu.be/QCYP3ioRYFU?si=KuAImj9oSYzMmCN0
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Play To Death - with Stephen Brotherstone (Scarred for Life) Podcast Teaser
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November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Check out the brilliant teaser for PLAY TO DEATH, @manoghosts.bsky.social new podcast about the dark side of videogaming. The first guest is... me!
youtu.be/QCYP3ioRYFU?si=KuAImj9oSYzMmCN0
youtu.be/QCYP3ioRYFU?si=KuAImj9oSYzMmCN0