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Live Aid
The 80s was a decade of firsts. Never before had a television channel given up virtually all of its schedule to one event, but that's what the BBC did in the summer of 1985.

The Time Chair
Oct 2


British Airways 'The Face': The Most Beautiful Advert Ever Made
When it comes to jaw-dropping beauty, choreography, soundtrack and cinematography - as in the sort which makes you literally stop what you are doing, fade into silence and pay full attention when it appears on screen - there is one advert from the 1980s which to this day would easily hold its own up against the ultra-high definition graphics of the 2020s.

The Time Chair
Aug 11


Come Back Lucy: The Strangeness of 1970s Children's TV Drama
In the early Spring of 1978, the six-part children’s television series, Come Back Lucy was aired for the first time in the UK. The programme was an ATV adaptation by Colin Schindler and Gail Renard of a 1973 short story by Pamela Sykes.

The Time Chair
Aug 10
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