RIP Dame Esther Rantzen

[George 1978]

Of course, our hero in the British Gas advert was not Donald Sutherland but Gavin Richards, but my goodness, the simiarities are more than apparent....

[George 1978]

I was thinking about the way that Mr Bean is presented on screen and how female viewers perceive men when they watch TV, be it presenters, actors or sportsmen such as footballers. It made me think that despite Bean's nerdy persona, I have almost come to a conclusion that he is seen, if anything on screen,...

[George 1978]

The actress Kate Lock played five different characters in The Bill from around 1989 to 1996 - all five episodes were on YouTube in early 2022 and after I found them all, I made a montage of all five of them, printed them out and sent them to her agent for her to autograph which she did before posting...

[George 1978]

Continued from the previous post...

Rantzen's own legacy in hindsight was the foundation of the telephone helpline charity Childline in 1986; a very similar helpline to the Samaritans which supported children and young people with regards to child abuse and bullying at school, as well as...

[George 1978]

There was something about Sunday nights in the 1980s; the panic of having school in the morning (something which is not as bad from Monday to Thursday nights); and, what I would regard as Private Eye magazine on the television which was usually on around 9.50 pm of a Sunday evening. Sunday evening television...

[George 1978]

I am not posting as much at the moment as I am having a break from here but I thought that I would let you all know about my annual birthday trip to the theatre.

After sending a "break a leg" email to the theatre on Norwich's first night of Thursday 6th August, I finally saw Matilda...