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My 70's TV Childhood
English - September 30, 2020 02:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBTV & Film Society & Culture television 1970's cultural history childhood nostalgia britain Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Welcome back to My 70's TV Childhood where we celebrate growing up in the UK during the 1970's and the huge part TV played in our lives.
This episode considers the lasting legacy of The Banana Splits and why the programme is so fondly remembered by my generation. Other important issues explored include the BBC's Saturday morning kid's TV strategy of buying a foreign programme and showing it again, and again and again, whether drugs played a part in the original vision for The Banana Splits and whether anyone actually ever saw "Herge's Adventures of Tinitin: Red Rackham's Treasure?"