As it’s halloween then it’s probably time to point out the greatest collection of evil around – The Mr Blobby Collection. It’s an entire site dedicated to the Great Satan himself – Mr Blobby!
Halloween Horrors: The Mr Blobby Collection
Tag: BBC
Northern Ireland’s Most Wanted: The Lost Television Dramas
Having recently re-watched ‘Missing Believed Wiped‘, I stumbled across a pair of nice articles covering the lost and wiped dramas of Northern Ireland – a region that, like the rest of the UK, lost a number of pieces to a poor archiving policy and the the claws of the bulk eraser.
Brewery Horses Making Hay / BBC Nationwide (1974)
Another interesting spot of archive footage – Brewers drays trotting around Sunderland!
Sometimes a Dyke is…
Whist poking around on the BBC Genome website trying to find out the original airdate for Band of Brothers I wandered across this rather surprising warning…
FOLK as ROUGH as IRON Filings – Omnibus (1971)
And the BBC Archive has coughed up a lovely spot of old industrial folk music from the early 1970s. It’s certainly worth a listen and it’d be nice if the entirety of that edition of Omnibus somehow managed to make it to iPlayer…
Missing Believed Wiped / Timeshift (BBC4 / 2003)
Britpop Now (BBC2 / 1995)
And here is a mid-90s Britpop-related show. ‘Britpop Now‘ featured performances by Pulp, Blur, Supergrass, Elastica and others – and all with very little filler. Oasis are, however, notably missing.
Continue reading “Britpop Now (BBC2 / 1995)”Pulp
And today with have two Pulp documentaries.
No Sleep Till Sheffield: Pulp Go Public (1995)
Short and not particularly deep but a lovely throwback to the mid-90s. Also old enough that it still has (for whatever reason!) a random spot of Gary Glitter.
The Story Of… Pulp’s Common People (2006)
Longer and somewhat more in-depth, though with a tendency to wander off – the pub analysis was un-needed – and stray from from the narrative under construction. No obvious disgraced celebrities feature in this one but there was a small callout out to Rolf Harris and his stylophone.
Manic Street Preachers – From There To Here (BBC2 1998)
Another nice mid-90s documentary, this time on the Manic Street Preachers.
A Marriage Made in Portsmouth: The Union between the Liberal Party and the SDP
Here’s a nice little documentary on the Liberal/SDP merger. A little before my time, there are a good number of faces I remember from later years – though all noticeably younger!
It seems to have been first shown at 6.00pm on the March 2nd, 2009.