Tag: bbc
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Singing Together
Schools musical programs are amazing, and one of the longest running in the UK was ‘Singing Together’ on BBC Radio, where kids sang along with songs live across the country. Jarvis Cocker presents this fascinating elegy for the live music show that taught children songs but without National Curriculum nor testing, just a joy of…
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Cassetteboy Cameron’s Rap
Lose Yourself in the Cuts woah, Benefits! Freeze! Sugar, Right Lines Pure as the Driven Low…Cassetteboy is back and on form with this Tory Conference video. Everything Dave says here is sadly true. (via Steve SPR) And as the comment points out, as of this week parody videos are now legal in the UK. Well…
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Recycled Radio
For those who liked my digital debris podcasts, especially ‘Hell (for Bill)‘ I suspect you might also like Recycled Radio (probably UK IP only) presented by Gerald Scarfe, which has just come back for a second series. The first of the new series is about hell, and it’s mashup/cutup radio at it’s finest, and both…
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Viv Stanshall’s Radio Flashes
Ooh look what just popped up on my computer (thank you Get iPlayer and PVR, yes Stanshall and Radiophonic search terms are always on scan), the BBC are replaying 3 episodes of what I presume the only high-quality versions they have of Viv Stanshall’s Radio Flashes, which was when he stood in for John Peel…
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Everybody’s doing the twist (even pop artists)
I saw clips off the 1962 film Pop Goes The Easel aeons ago, but never watched the full BBC Monitor documentary by a young Ken Russell until now. It featured an equally young looking Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips. What I love about this, and the clip I saw many moons…
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10 PRINT “Happy 50th Birthday Basic!” 20 GOTO 10
Yes as of today BASIC is 50. PRINT “CONGRATULATIONS”, BEEP! I was probably unusual for my age when I started to learn BASIC and mess around on computers since my parents were IT professionals, and bought a Computer Graveyard’s worth of long-forgotten technology, dusty long forgotten machines. So the machine I learn BASIC on to…