It is 1923 and the BBC is at war! Theatre managers have banned their stars from broadcasting on the new-fangled wireless, fearing audiences will prefer to stay at home and listen to all their favourite celebrities for the price of a radio licence.
The only solution is for the BBC...
Crackerjack (the TV show with the built-in echo) gave us two enduring icons of children's television ... one long and thin, one round and plump. No, not Leslie Crowther and Peter Glaze! The Crackerjack pencil and the Double or Drop cabbage.
If you were a child in the late '50s,...
A book by Alan Stafford about the music hall act Wilson, Keppel and Betty.
Wilson, Keppel and Betty. They sound like a firm of solicitors and look like a bunch of Tutankhamun's hieroglyphs that suddenly fancied a boogie. To many they are the epitome of the bizarre speciality act, shuffling...
Why would anyone wish to resurrect the saucy sex comedy? Surely it died a natural death decades ago. Along with one unnatural death. An actor who killed both himself and an entire movie. And now, out of the blue, a fresh young director is keen to complete that movie -...
This product has been discontinued.
Crackerjack (the TV show with the built-in echo) gave us two enduring icons of Children's Television ... one long and thin, one round and plump. No, not Leslie Crowther and Peter Glaze! The Crackerjack pencil and the Double or Drop cabbage.
If you were a child in the late '50s,...
This product has been discontinued.