In the early 1980s, home video hit the UK, giving anyone who could afford to rent a giant video player the chance to watch movies from the comfort of their own home, regardless of what was on TV. Remember your video rental store, and the video player in the livingRead More →
Remember Defender? Chase HQ? Time Crisis? The sound of Charlie Brown’s teacher calling out bingo, in a fug of cigarette smoke and the black and red uniforms of the Nobles Amusements cash girls? Or the feeling of putting too much money into a machine and having to leave credits behind?Read More →
Christian Cawley and Gareth Kavanagh look back at the halcyon days of Teletext, and 8-bit computers in homes and schools in the 1980s in this latest Coaxial. There’s even some talk of 16-bit classics like the Amiga and the Atari ST — a must for fans of retro computing, andRead More →
We’re back! Christian Cawley and Gareth Kavanagh reconvene to discuss the halcyon days of BBC Television Centre, recalling Gareth’s trips to the famous “concrete doughnut”. There’s also an opportunity to discuss one of Gareth’s ongoing productions, Room 5064, where writers Alan Bennett and Dennis Potter regularly locked horns… Shownotes: TelevisionRead More →
Welcome back to another Coaxial, with Christian Cawley and Gareth Kavanagh. In this week’s show, we’re chatting classic British children’s TV, and may or may not have covered most of the following… Pre-school: Rainbow, Ivor the Engine, the Mr Men, Get Up and Go (Mooncat), Pipkins, Play School, Play Away, Dramas:Read More →
Welcome to the second Coaxial podcast, with Gareth Kavanagh and Christian Cawley. This week, we chat about the changing faces and fortunes of ITV’s pair of premium soap operas, Coronation Street and Emmerdale (Farm). Are the glory days of both soaps now long-since past? Has Emmerdale found itself accidentally socially relevant simplyRead More →
Welcome to the first of our regular Coaxial podcasts, in which Gareth Kavanagh joins Christian Cawley to chat about television. To open the run, we’re looking at the BBC’s recent classic Sitcom Season, in which several situation comedies from days gone by were updated in various ways, from an impressive lickRead More →
