BBC Archive 1973: England’s Deadliest Chair!
Are you ready to face the horror of England’s deadliest chair? “In the last six years, five people have sat in the murderer’s chair… and every single one has met sudden death.” Click here, if you dare!
BBC Archive: “The Joy of Role-Playing Games”
BBC Archives shares Heart of the Matter: Swords and Sorcery from 1980. “”People are turning themselves into wizards and demons, knights and clerics, and a bewildering variety of mythical figures.’ As the new Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back, is released in the UK to extraordinary box […]
BBC Archive: “Nineteen Eighty-Four: the Controversial 1954 BBC adaptation”
The BBC Archive has video of a 1965 discussion of 1984 (1954). “Late Night Line-Up looks back on the 1954 BBC television adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, starring Peter Cushing, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasance and André Morell. The television play was performed live on the evening of Sunday […]
BBC Archive: “Max Headroom–TV Host of the Future?”
BBC Archive shares a video segment of Terry Wogan on Max Headroom. “Terry Wogan comes face to face with the future of television presenting, the world’s first ‘computer-generated’ host, Max Headroom. Does the emergence of Max spell the end for homo sapiens as chat show hosts? Originally broadcast […]
From the Archives: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Angela Englert accidentally fed her mogwai after midnight, so she’s going to be afk this month. In the meantime, please enjoy this look back at MR James’s classic Christmas ghost stories, and with any luck, she’ll be back in the new year. Or something will. Imagine, if you […]
The Wicker Man in Animal Crossing!
It’s the 50th anniversary of The Wicker Man (1973) and that means there are so many tributes and special programs and screenings and shenaniganry. We have shared BBC Radio 4 Extra’s special programming, including a radio play starring Brian Blessed as Lord Summerisle. Now it’s time for this […]
The Cultural Gutter 