DoYouRemember.co.uk forums https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/ vBulletin Forums en Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:57:38 GMT vBulletin 60 images/misc/rss.png DoYouRemember.co.uk forums https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/ <link>https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/special/visitor-messages/310128-</link> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:39:57 GMT</pubDate> <description><![CDATA[Insurance Brokers Software: Transforming Brokerage Operations with Ozone Insuria In today's competitive insurance market, brokers need advanced digital tools to streamline operations, improve customer service, and increase profitability. Insurance brokers software has become an essential...]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<br /> <b>Insurance Brokers Software: Transforming Brokerage Operations with Ozone Insuria</b><br /> <br /> <br /> In today's competitive insurance market, brokers need advanced digital tools to streamline operations, improve customer service, and increase profitability. 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Ozone Insuria offers a powerful, all-in-one platform that simplifies policy management, automates renewals, streamlines claims processing, and enhances customer relationships.<br /> <br /> As the insurance industry continues to evolve, brokers need technology solutions that help them stay competitive and deliver exceptional service. Ozone Insuria provides the tools and capabilities necessary to transform brokerage operations and achieve sustainable business success.<br /> <br /> ]]></content:encoded> <category domain="https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/special/visitor-messages">Visitor Messages</category> <dc:creator>ozoneinsuria001</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/special/visitor-messages/310128-</guid> </item> <item> <title>The end of Radio 4 on 198 kHz long wave https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/technology/310117-the-end-of-radio-4-on-198-khz-long-wave Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:42:28 GMT
26 June will be the last day that Radio 4 will be broadcast on 198 kHz long wave.

On 23 November 1978, Radio 4 swapped places with Radio 2 on long wave. It was originally broadcast on 200 kHz (1500 m) but changed to 198 kHz on 1 February 1988.

Radio 4 is also broadcast on medium wave in more difficult reception areas, London, and Northern Ireland.

The long wave setting of a radio will no longer officially be of any use in Britain.]]> Technology Arran https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/technology/310117-the-end-of-radio-4-on-198-khz-long-wave RIP Roger Cook (of The Cook Report) https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/people/gone-but-not-forgotten/310113-rip-roger-cook-of-the-cook-report Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:33:05 GMT
Cook was born in New Zealand in 1943 and in the UK he presented investiagtive journamism programmes for Radio 4 and also for Central Television, becoming one of the co-presenters of the Friday night, just-after-News-at-Ten series Central Weekend in 1986, where he also appeared on the show a couple of years after he ceased presenting, in a debate about cot deaths. A year later in July 1987 The Cook Report began which was almost a spin-off of the weekend show; it was pre-watershed lasted until as late as 1999, and Cook's experience of it was something that most people wouldn't even dream of. He presented as someone who, shall we say, had he have worked at London Zoo, he would have got into the lion's cage to feed the animals himself. He was so confrontational either delibately or incidently.

As a person who lived in inner-city Nottingham and went to school there in the 1980s and early 1990s, I was used to be bullied for being different, assaulted (punched in the face and stomach, and being kicked in the groin was the usual speciality, never mind the old sticks and stones situation), and God knows what, and I was also spat at in such a way that the late Roy Hattersley's Spitting Image puppet could never have done so. It seemed that the late Roger Cook had experienced identical if not the same reactions to an average inner-city person in the system who was being bullied at schoool during his stint working during his Cook Report programme. In an interview for a Sunday newspaper in the mid 1990s he had revealed that he had every bone in his body broken at least once, and that he was lucky that he had not ended up in a wheelchair or at least on crutches. On an edition of Have I Got News For You, the then permenant host Angus Deayton also made reference to Cook's assaults and the perceived "walked into a door" and so-called "swept under the carpet" accidents, and that Cook was "sick of being beated up". Deayton then suggested that he should have been replaced by Jeremy Beadle in his Beadle's About persona.

He was parodied, and even Benny Hill did a "Bentral Television" [sic] sketch for his show in the late 1980s just before his contract with Thames TV was terminated for being too sexist and misogynist. In 1993 Paul Merton did a series of Cook Report-alike parodies to advertise Imperial Leather soap. "For another ten quid we could have had Robert Hardy". Roger Cook is not to be confused with the British songwriter who is still with us in 2026 at the age of 85 and was born before the journalist was.

He had guts, that is what I can say about him. And he wasn't a wimp either.]]> Gone but not forgotten George 1978 https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/people/gone-but-not-forgotten/310113-rip-roger-cook-of-the-cook-report RIP Roy Hattersley https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/people/gone-but-not-forgotten/310105-rip-roy-hattersley Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:04:35 GMT
It made me think that most of the celebrities that Spitting Image portrayed in the 1980s as puppets have since passed away by now, being between 30 to over 40 years since they were first seen. Hattersley certainly put the spitting into Spitting Image for he showered his fellow party political colleagues every time he spoke on the show, and it's a wonder that his puppet didn't flood the House of Commons when he did so! They turned him from a politcian into a character. He was Member of Parliament for Birmingham Sparkbrook for nearly three decades. ]]> Gone but not forgotten George 1978 https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/people/gone-but-not-forgotten/310105-rip-roy-hattersley MOT and road tax checks on vehicles in old TV programmes https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/transport/310092-mot-and-road-tax-checks-on-vehicles-in-old-tv-programmes Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:17:55 GMT Have you ever carried out MOT and road tax checks on vehicles in old TV programmes in order to identify if they are likely to still exist? Have you ever carried out MOT and road tax checks on vehicles in old TV programmes in order to identify if they are likely to still exist? Transport Arran https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/transport/310092-mot-and-road-tax-checks-on-vehicles-in-old-tv-programmes <link>https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/special/visitor-messages/310033-</link> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:18:43 GMT</pubDate> <description>Vanced YouTube provides updated YouTube Vanced and MicroG downloads (https://vancedyoutube.org/), installation guides, and helpful resources for Android users seeking an enhanced YouTube experience.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Vanced YouTube provides updated YouTube Vanced and MicroG downloads (<a href="https://vancedyoutube.org/" target="_blank">https://vancedyoutube.org/</a>), installation guides, and helpful resources for Android users seeking an enhanced YouTube experience.<br /> ]]></content:encoded> <category domain="https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/special/visitor-messages">Visitor Messages</category> <dc:creator>Vanced44</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/special/visitor-messages/310033-</guid> </item> <item> <title /> <link>https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/special/visitor-messages/310009-</link> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:29:58 GMT</pubDate> <description>.</description> <content:encoded>.</content:encoded> <category domain="https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/special/visitor-messages">Visitor Messages</category> <dc:creator>jamesharris</dc:creator> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/special/visitor-messages/310009-</guid> </item> <item> <title>Anthony Head https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/people/gone-but-not-forgotten/310006-anthony-head Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:14:49 GMT RIP. He was best known for appearing in Maxwell House coffee ads, and for playing Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. :(
He was best known for appearing in Maxwell House coffee ads, and for playing Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ]]> Gone but not forgotten batman https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/people/gone-but-not-forgotten/310006-anthony-head <![CDATA[Was music really better in the 70’s/80’s/90’s — or are we remembering it differently?]]> https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/music/songs/310004-was-music-really-better-in-the-70%E2%80%99s-80%E2%80%99s-90%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%94-or-are-we-remembering-it-differently Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:43:14 GMT
But I’ve started to wonder if part of the reason older music seems better is because history has already done the filtering for us.

When we think of the 70s, we remember the best songs by artists such as Pink Floyd, Queen, David Bowie, ABBA, Fleetwood Mac and many others. When we think of the 80s, we remember the biggest hits and most memorable records. The same applies to the 90s.

What we tend to forget is that there was also a lot of forgettable, disposable and downright awful music released in those decades too. Most of it has vanished from radio playlists, streaming services, television programmes and public memory.

Today we’re hearing everything at once: the classics of tomorrow, the average songs and the outright rubbish. Perhaps in twenty or thirty years’ time people will look back on the 2020s and hear only the very best tracks that have stood the test of time, giving the impression that this era was much stronger than it felt at the time.

That said, I still can’t shake the feeling that songwriting was generally stronger in previous decades. Whether it was because artists had more time to develop, because record companies invested differently, because bands tended to play together for years before becoming successful, or because musical trends weren’t changing at internet speed, many songs seemed to have stronger melodies, more memorable hooks and greater individuality.

Maybe nostalgia is playing tricks on me. Or maybe there really was something special about those earlier decades.

What do you think? Was music genuinely better in the 70s, 80s and 90s, or are we simply comparing the greatest hits of the past with the entire output of the present?]]> Songs TubThumper https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/music/songs/310004-was-music-really-better-in-the-70%E2%80%99s-80%E2%80%99s-90%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%94-or-are-we-remembering-it-differently What were you teased about in school? https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/school-days/309969-what-were-you-teased-about-in-school Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:41:57 GMT My big ears and nose My big ears and nose School days Meaty https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/culture/school-days/309969-what-were-you-teased-about-in-school Clip from British comedy film - female character wearing jodhpurs https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/tv-movies/movies/309963-clip-from-british-comedy-film-female-character-wearing-jodhpurs Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:40:24 GMT
Anyway, there was a brief clip of a film in the trailer where a comedy actor which could have been either Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth or Charles Hawtrey was eyeing up a female character with blonde hair in a ponytail and wearing a white blouse, with a "corr" expression on him. The female character's backside could be seen on camera with what the man was seeing with his own eyes, and it looked as she was wearing cream coloured jodhpurs, so she could have been also playing a horse rider? (This is not Uncle Buck that I am thinking of). I believe that she was polishing a table when she was seen in her situation in the clip. No doubt that for all the obvious reasons, it was very memorable to myself!

I believe that it was a Carry On film, possibly Camping, Henry or Abroad, but I don't think that I have actually seen that scene in it. The movie spin-offs of the various sitcoms also spring to mind and it might have come from one of them. Better still, is that video of the 1994 Tyne Tees continuity still on YouTube so that I can look at it again?
]]> Movies George 1978 https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/tv-movies/movies/309963-clip-from-british-comedy-film-female-character-wearing-jodhpurs Read it or not read it? https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/everything-else/member-s-lounge/fun-and-games/309907-read-it-or-not-read-it Sun, 31 May 2026 20:52:55 GMT Say whether you have read the above book or not then suggest the next one I will start Prince Harry - Spare I will start
Prince Harry - Spare]]> Fun and games Meaty https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/everything-else/member-s-lounge/fun-and-games/309907-read-it-or-not-read-it Seen it or not seen it? https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/everything-else/member-s-lounge/fun-and-games/309906-seen-it-or-not-seen-it Sun, 31 May 2026 20:51:41 GMT Say whether you have seen the above tv show /movie or not then suggest the next one I will start match of the day I will start
match of the day]]> Fun and games Meaty https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/everything-else/member-s-lounge/fun-and-games/309906-seen-it-or-not-seen-it Been there or never been there? https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/everything-else/member-s-lounge/fun-and-games/309905-been-there-or-never-been-there Sun, 31 May 2026 20:50:37 GMT Say whether you have been there or not then suggest the next place I will start Roms I will start
Roms]]> Fun and games Meaty https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/everything-else/member-s-lounge/fun-and-games/309905-been-there-or-never-been-there Yet ANOTHER TV show I need a Name For ----weird people on an island https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/tv-movies/television/309895-yet-another-tv-show-i-need-a-name-for-weird-people-on-an-island Sun, 31 May 2026 09:09:39 GMT It was on TV in the mid 80s. It involved a small gang of young people travelling around Britain and finding a part of the land that is normally cut off from the surrounding land by water. The stranded people were culturally backwards by hundreds of years. Still wearing the old style of clothes. There was antagonism with the backwards people and the small gang, who arrived in a jeep or range rover. The vehicle was seen as a monster by the backwards people. And was used to scare them when they attacked. I would say the era the backward people stuck in would be around the time of the witch trials.

Please help me with the lost piece of jigsaw brain.]]> Television albie https://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/forum/tv-movies/television/309895-yet-another-tv-show-i-need-a-name-for-weird-people-on-an-island