Category: e.phemera
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What A Gas
This isn’t what I was planning on sharing today, but sometimes you’re scouring for tiny articles in the archive, and you get distracted by big, gaudy ones like this. ‘Romped with a bevy of beauties’ is a phrase you only ever see in a tabloid newspaper. Here’s a preview of the movie, from the Folkestone, […]
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Mary Whitehouse Versus Scum
Here’s a story told through newspaper clippings. It begins on Thursday the 15th of September, in 1983. The Belfast Telegraph tells its readers that Mary Whitehouse, the teacher who founded the National Viewers And Listeners Association, has been given leave by the High Court to seek a declaration that the Independent Broadcasting Authority breached its […]
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These Four Walls Are Closing In
I’m writing this in an effort to exorcise a pernicious ear-worm. It’s burrowed so deep into my head now that I’m worried its actually eating my brain from the inside. The name of my pain is Rainbow’s Since You’ve Been Gone. I didn’t realise that this was actually a cover version. The song was originally […]
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Squarials
There’s a whole book about the rise and fall of British Satellite Broadcasting called Dished!, by Peter Chipindale and Suzanne Franks. It’s a fascinating tale, and I often revisit it. This time I have done so via old newspaper clippings.
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They Watched Ghostwatch
The myths that have grown up around Ghostwatch speak both to the excellent execution of the show, as well as with word of mouth and folk memory. So I thought I’d have a quick, cursory look at the newspaper coverage that was being printed at the time. The show was clearly part of the Screen […]
