My 70's TV Childhood
105 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago -A celebration of growing up in Britain in the 1970's and the huge part TV played in our lives. You can comment on episodes, suggest subjects for future podcasts and, of course, share your memories with us on our blog www.my70sTVchildhood.comÂ
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Comics, Death and Pipkins
October 07, 2020 02:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBThis episode of the podcast celebrating growing up in Britain in the 1970's deals with memories of having a weekly comic delivered by the newsagent and ITV's sometimes underrated lunchtime programming for the under fives. We discuss A Handful of Songs, Rainbow and Pipkins. Our listener Stuart has particular memories of the death of Mr Pipkin and how that was explained to the young audience many years before a similar, better known episode of Sesame Street did the same following the death of...
Size of an Elephant
September 30, 2020 02:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBWelcome 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 ...
Watching with Mother
September 23, 2020 02:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBWelcome back to our celebration of growing up in Britain in the 1970's and the TV we watched. This episode brings listeners' memories of "Watch with Mother" the BBC's programmes for the under 5's. We revisit Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley and discuss the linguistic legacy of Bill and Ben and the Clangers. We also consider whether Bill and Ben were the original role models for the TV show Shameless and was Oliver Postgate really Emma Thompson’s father? Come and share your memories w...
Earliest TV Memories
September 16, 2020 02:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBWelcome back to the podcast celebrating growing up in Britain during the 1970's and the part TV played in our lives. This week I'm joined by one of our listeners, George from Wimbledon, to explore our first memories of childhood and television. Join us to take a trip back to childhood, memories of classic shows like "The Herbs" and to hear us speculate on what the sleeping arrangements were inside Hector's House. Join the conversation or leave your comments at www.my70stvchildhood.com , tw...
Growing Up with TV in the 1970's
September 09, 2020 02:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBWelcome to the first episode of the podcast celebrating what it was like to grow up as a child in Britain in the 1970's and the part that television played in our childhood. Our host, Oliver Colling, is your guide for a trip back in time to the 1970's, a much maligned decade, but the one in which many of us grew up and have mostly happy memories. Britain as a country was not in great shape, but as our parents suffered the problems of power cuts in the Three Day Week, the decline of the UK's...