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Navigating Career Transitions: A Guide to Embracing Change and Finding Success
Career transitions are an inevitable part of professional life, and in today's dynamic job market, individuals often find themselves navigating through various changes in their career paths. Whether...
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Philip Schofield's Final Day on Children's BBC
2023 was a disastrous year for Philip Schofield's television career and private life, and it remains to be seen whether he'll ever return to our screens again. However, back in 1987, life for Schofield...
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All the Slices of Archive TV Christmas Footage I've Found
Christmas television has always been a landmark event. Or, at least, it always was. These days, scanning through the Christmas issue of the Radio Times with a highlighter is more a novelty than a...
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New Print Article: The Birth of Teletext
A year on from my last published article, I’m back in the pages of Best of British with The Birth of Teletext.Ever since I first laid eyes on Pages from Ceefax back in the mid-1980s, I’ve been a little...
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Free E-Book: The Curiosities of British Children's TV
I wrote a couple of books on children’s television a few years back (both available on Amazon) and, luckily for you, I’ve made the e-book version of The Curiosities of British Children’s TV free for...
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Early Children's ITV Continuity Captured
I’ve been digging through some Betamax tapes this weekend and, as luck would have it, the first one I pulled out of the box had an absolute gem on it. And it came in the form of a rare clip of...
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BBC Select: A Failed Subscription Service
If, in 1987, you had been watching television very late at night, we’re talking post-closedown late, you could have stumbled across something very interesting on BBC2. To be precise, you would have...
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YouTube Pick: My Brother David
The tale of David Scarboro isn't one I was overly familiar with, but his short life and career on British television is, in itself, very much like the soap opera which defined his early fame. Full of...
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The Slow, Slow Start of BBC Video
I still remember the first BBC Video I got: Pyramids of Mars, the classic 1975 Doctor Who serial featuring Tom Baker. This was in 1987, and it meant a lot to a five-year-old who had only been on the...
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Curious British Telly Enters the Betamax Age
Yes, the rumours are true, Curious British Telly has finally invested in a Betamax player. It's something I've wanted to get hold of for years, ever since I first started trawling through old VHS...
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The Birth of Thames Television in 1968
Boasting productions such as The Bill, Minder, Man about the House, Rainbow and The Sooty Show, Thames Television produced some of my favourite television programmes of all time. And then there’s that...
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Winning a Lunch with Brian Cant in 1981
I’ve always been careful to ensure Curious British Telly doesn’t become a rose tinted, nostalgia-for-the-sake-of-nostalgia borefest - you know the thing, see all those Channel 5 documentaries about the...
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Book Review: Opening The Box of Delights (2024 Edition)
The festive season is upon us once more and, of course, that means The Box of Delights will be getting its yearly airing for countless fans of vintage British television. And 2024 marks 40 years since...
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Archive Tape Digging: December 2024
It's time for another look into the increasingly distant past with another edition of Archive Tape Digging, the feature which digs up old programmmes, mind-bending adverts, and curious slices of...
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Prospects - The Face: August 1985
One of the earliest programmes covered on Curious British Telly was the much underrated Prospects. Since that article, written over 12 years ago when I barely knew what I was wittering on about,...
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