Category: Culture

Old UK BBC Television Newsreel reports from Richmond Park where, in preparation for the 1948 Olympic Games, a temporary ‘Olympic[…]

Old UK The art of ‘woggle-hopping’ – vaulting over things the height of your woggle, like Royal Mail pillar boxes[…]

Old UK Nationwide reporter St John Howell meets sprightly octogenarian Alfred Tabb, a trick cyclist whose skill at riding miniature[…]

Old UK The wonderful Tony Hart creates a beautiful rendering of Stonehenge in under 4 minutes, using chalk pastels and[…]

Old UK Review marks the 40th anniversary of the first ever television play, an adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s The Man[…]

Old UK Kate Bush joins Whistle Test’s Richard Skinner to discuss the making of her fifth album Hounds of Love,[…]

Old UK Michael Rodd pits Charlie – a veteran street sweeper with a spotless track record – against a new-fangled[…]

Old UK Eleven-year-old Jeff Cohen, one of the young stars of the beloved 1980s children’s action-adventure comedy The Goonies, discusses[…]

Old UK BBC Midweek goes to the United States of America, where a group of women tennis players, led by[…]

Old UK “Before the end of next year, men could be flying across the moon’s surface and preparing to land.”[…]

Old UK Meet Able Mabel, the incredible robotic housekeeper, whose only function is to make your life more leisurely. She’ll[…]

Old UK In 1992, repeats of the classic 1960s puppet show Thunderbirds on BBC Two led to an unanticipated surge[…]

Old UK Windows 95 has been launched, to the strains of Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones. The operating[…]