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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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025
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