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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Richard Skinner gets to tell Kate Bush live on Whistle Test that Hounds Of Love is no longer album chart number one. Bush doesn't know Madonna.

1985: KATE BUSH on HOUNDS OF LOVE | Whistle Test | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive

Kate Bush joins Whistle Test's Richard Skinner to discuss the making of her fifth album Hounds of Love, which features singles Running Up That Hill, The Big Sky and Cloudbusting. Originally broadcast 8 October, 1985. You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you b

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: won't spoil this week's Dick & Dom In Da Bungalow guest star but the reveal five minutes in, and their circumstances, made us genuinely laugh out loud. And that's before Celebrity Bogies with Jodie Marsh and a very physical Muck Phrase.

Dick & Dom In Da Bungalow S05E09 8th October 2005

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: World Of Skinhead, Britain's least appealing amusement park. Or, an edition of terribly titled Channel 4 sub-culture series Tribe Time.

World of Skinhead - Channel 4 Documentary (1995)

Channel 4 Documentary World Of Skinhead Here's an interesting cinema verite style documentary on the world of skinheads that was made in 1995 by Doug Aubrey. The storyline is narrated by the…

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Belfast-born Kenneth Branagh takes the lead in Dublin-set The Shadow Of A Gunman, Sean O'Casey's Irish War of Independence play, alongside a flatmate about whom there are affiliation suspicions, played by Stephen Rea.

The Shadow of a Gunman part 1 BBC Performance 1995 Stephen Rea ❤️ Kenneth Branagh, Bronagh Gallagher

*The Shadow of a Gunman* by Sean O’Casey part 1 BBC Performance Season 1995 Stephen Rea ❤️ and Kenneth Branagh, Bronagh Gallagher and more. this is part 1. part 2 is here 👉…

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: do you get the feeling Sean Lock wasn't entirely appreciative of Rory McGrath showing off on QI?

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The closest folk club comic and Kay-preceding rememberer of things Richard Digance got to his own show was set of one-offs Abracadigance. Today in 1989 there's a straight song about Tony Hancock, a coach trip to Lyme Regis and a sketch with Doon Mackichan. www.youtube.com/watc...

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Stu Francis-era Crackerjack (don't) today in 1983. Big Country and Nick Heyward add music, The Great Soprendo does his thing, while neither final game guest Brian Jacks nor Liz Hobbs appears to have been briefed about the liquid ending.

Crackerjack - BBC - 7th October 1983

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Frankie Howerd hated being interviewed or talking seriously, so Good Afternoon sent in the big Mavis today in 1976.

Frankie Howerd interview | British comedian | Comedy | Good Afternoon | 1976

Some extracts from Thames Televisions 'Good Afternoon' Mavis Nicholson speaks to British comedy legend Frankie Howerd. In these extracts, Frankie talks about his dislike of interviews and what one should ask.. Recorded: 07/10/1976 Is you would like to license clips from this interview please e mai

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: BBC Schools' Science All Around explores the world of sound with percussionist Tristan Fry and everything he has at his disposal, from gong to swannee whistle via a duet for thunder sheet and hand cranked wind machine.

BBC SCHOOLS - SCIENCE ALL AROUND: Sound with Tristan Fry (TX 08/10/1980)

Fergus O' Kelly and percussionist Tristan Fry explain all about sounds and vibrations with the help of Lane Green Primary School in Codsall and lots of percussion instruments! Originally made in 1975 this recording is from the repeat broadcast in 1980. Continuity includes Slide and Dots Countdown wi

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: the notoriously private Sir Alec Guinness does a South Bank Show. Melvyn Bragg later called him "the weirdest, strangest person I’ve ever interviewed".

SIR ALEC GUINNESS - INTERVIEW WITH MELVYN BRAGG 1985

Sir Alec Guinness interviewed about his life and career by British TV interviewer Melvyn Bragg in 1985.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sir Les Patterson and Dame Edna Everage visit Clive Anderson Talks Back.

Les Patterson & Dame Edna Everage interviews (Clive Anderson, 1995)

Clive Anderson Talks Back, 06/10/1995 - Barry Humphries in both his guises chitter-chattering in the usual fashion. Not my copyright, just sharing found ephemera.

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: this week's Shooting Stars, whoever they are, are John Peel, Jonathan Ross, John Craven and Chris Evans. The highlight is Mark Lamarr absolutely losing it with laughter in the background watching the final round. www.youtube.com/watc...

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the latest attempt to put poetry on screen is Unspeakable Verse, hiring Hugh Laurie, Miriam Margolyes, Louise Lombard and Leo McKern to recite the comic verse of amongst others Betjeman, Coward, Dahl, Raleigh and Dorothy Parker.

Unspeakable Verse

A BBC 2 Poetry series from 1995 featuring readings from Hugh Laurie, Louise Lombard, Miriam Margolyes and Leo McKern,

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Mystical Boudoir Of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, the twenty-fifth and final episode of Open All Hours (not that it was known to be that at the time), draws BBC1's biggest non-Enders audience of the year. www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vdxc0

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: an odd top and tail to Bullseye as a gag with the studio audience fails to work on screen and then Bully's Star Prize... well, it's something even more ill befitting the show and its contestants' circumstances than a speedboat. www.youtube.com/watc...

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: with just eighty days until Christmas Frank Muir tells Afternoon Plus and Mavis Nicholson about his new festive book. Having his cake and eat it, Muir complains too much attention too soon is devoted to the celebration.

Part one of an interview with comedy writer Frank Muir. CBE. In this section Mr. Muir speaks to Mavis Nicholson about his latest book about Christmas, and what Christmas actually means to him. Recorded: 06/10/1975 If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail: archive@fremantle

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40 YEARS AGO TODAY: wiping up after himself for the first time, Pob's Programme. Amid cartoons, art, a folk song as if this were a 1970s kids programme and Pob pissing about, Roy Castle is the first to follow the string to the storytelling area.

Pob's Programme episode 1 (1985)

The first episode of the Channel 4 children's puppet-led storytelling show, with special guest Roy Castle.

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In this week's archive newsletter: John Nott walks, Granada's failed Anglican Church soap of all the talents, Brucie gets the network together, Sarah Greene gets a hospital visit, The Clangers get political and Napalm Death are for the children. whydontyoutube.substack.com/p/the-why-do...

The Why Don't YouTube? Archive - October 6th-12th 2025

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50 YEARS AGO TODAY: the original Poldark begins, Robin Ellis as the protagonist of the milestone in populist historical fiction adaptation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4dV...

Poldark 1975 S1E01

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Once Afternoon Plus or A+ or whatever it was called by the end was disposed of Mavis Nicholson was logically given her own programme, Mavis On 4. Today in 1987 Nicholson kicked it off by expressing her excitement at meeting Bette Davis.

Mavis Nicholson - Interviews Bette Davis 05.10.87 (Complete)

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Pet Shop Boys' Chris Lowe is a passing visitor to Ramsey Street.

Chris Lowe (Pet Shop Boys) in Neighbours

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60 YEARS AGO TODAY: Out Of The Unknown, the BBC's first go at a sci-fi anthology series, starts with No Place Like Earth a handyman settled on Mars rejects the offer of a wife (TV debutant Hannah Gordon) in favour of setting up a new Earth on Venus.

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Episode from the first series of 'Out of The Unknown'

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: after no fewer than three pilots look-at-this-idiot cop cam video compilation Police Camera Action! graduates to a full series, the first of - get this - fourteen.

Police, Camera, Action! - Series 1 Episode 1 - Wednesday 4th October 1995

This is the official first episode of Police, Camera, Action! Don’t take any notice of What Wikipedia say, so the first episode was 4th October 1995, the pilot was December 1994 and repeated in…

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When an enterprising former label put a spanner in the Ziggy works by reissuing David Bowie's The Laughing Gnome #totp got out the stop-motion cameras and made a video for it themselves to show on their 500th episode today in 1973.

The Laughing Gnome - D Bowie -Top of the Pops Promo 1972 -

A promotional video made for the music show Top of The Pops as the track was made in the sixties and had no official film made to promote it. Made with actors - Bowie doesn't feature, but the actor…

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30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the fifth series of Get Your Own Back introduces the Forfeit Furnace, where the loser (pretends to) have a precious item burned, which got Points Of View interested and the feature dropped.

CBBC Get Your Own Back on "Points of View" (1995)

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