Welcome to the special Christmas edition of the podcast celebrating what it was like to grow up as a child in 1970’s Britain and the central part that television played in our lives.
We travel back to Christmas 1978 and our host Oliver explores the TV schedules with Stuart, a regular listener and contributor to the podcast. As well as several familiar shows, we ask why was Pam Ayres in Hong Kong for Christmas and why was Holiday On Ice, erm on ice? Can you remember what the Christmas number one was, as revealed by Noel Edmunds on Christmas Top of the Pops and do you remember the scandal surrounding the BBC paying millions of pounds for the rights to show The Sound of Music on television? All this and more, including Morecambe and Wise, Mike Yarwood and, inevitably, Benny Hill. We also hear some heartwarming memories of Christmas in Yorkshire from our listener Gillian.
You mentioned Get It Together in this episode. The host was of course….. would be sort of pop star and Basil Brush straight man (and absolutely the best!) Roy North.
Hope you enjoy our episodes on both Basil Brush and Get It Together once you find them.
What a star Mr Roy was!