Posts Tagged ‘bbc schools diamond’

‘ainohpolytS’ syoB elttiL owT – spoP deddebmE ebuTuoY yzaL ehT fO kciP

October 29, 2009

…ynoB yradnegel eht fo 3PM elbadaolnwod a tsal gnol ta dnif ll’uoy ,kcaB ehT oT dnA tfeL ot revo daeh uoy fi esuaceb yltrap dna ,elbidua ylraelc si “rekcuf ycuas a semoc ereh” esarhp eht sdrawkcab deyalp si syoB elttiL owT lanigiro s’floR fi ,tuo detniop sirroM sirhC sa ,taht tcaf [...]

And The Winner Is…

October 22, 2009

…well it was a very close-run thing, but just edging half a point ahead (and actually due to his specialist subject rather than his expert knowledge of the Large Hadron Particle Collider) is A Ben Baker Of Keighley – congratulations on becoming the Out On Blue Six Telly Addicts Champion Of Champions 2009. And here [...]

Telly Addicts: The Answers!

October 12, 2009

 
Yes at last… it’s the answers that at least seven of you have been waiting for!
Round 1
1. Eve Myles’ Tits from Torchwood
2. Strain 138 of the Shanti Virus from Heroes (honestly, why did so many of you confidently state it was the Sonic Screwdriver?)
3. The objects next to the Music Box from Camberwick Green
4. Gene [...]

Diamond Life

June 25, 2009

As the post below this one, about the peculiarities of BBC children’s continuity, has proved to be the most widely critically acclaimed Out On Blue Six rambling since that one about The Beatles thwarting plans to ‘rob’ Penny Lane, it’s well worth shamelessly capitalising on this by doing the odd occasional further diversion into the [...]

Back In Spangles

April 14, 2009

Spangles. Bagpuss. Spacehoppers. Slade.  Rainbow. That episode of Grange Hill where Tucker did something.
All of these things, and so much more more besides, once seemed so nostalgically evocative, even as early as the mid-eighties (when ‘nostalgia’ supposedly began and ended with Jonathan Ross saying “cor them toy space rockets eh?”), but more recently have become like popular cultural Kryptonite. [...]

“…And That’s Easter – On BBC North East & Cumbria!”

April 9, 2009

Everyone knows all about the much-lamented (especially by nutcases foaming at the mouth about how the ‘politically correct brigade : (‘ won’t let them use their hosepipe on their Benny Hill golliwogs because of something to do with LWT startup sequences) eccentricities of the erstwhile ITV regions – the Anglia Knight, the Yorkshire Chevron, the [...]

The Ninety Fifth Annual Out On Blue Six Gala Academy Tribute Special Salute To… Through A Glass Darkly!

March 6, 2009

Join us this evening on Radio Out On Blue Six for a special charity all-star tribute to Through A Glass Darkly! Yes, the seminal 1978 ‘lyrical adventure’ by Peter Howell & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop will be performed in full, in its original twenty six movements, by a cast of celebrity friends of Out On [...]

Free This Way Up – Now 23% Free-er!

February 15, 2009

After being away for frankly far too long, superlative long-running purveyor of ’sideways looks’ at the latest happenings in cult television This Way Up is back at last with its blockbusting 22nd issue, containing features on The Sarah Jane Adventures, Merlin and Arthur C. Clarke, as well as my own thoughts on series two of Heroes [...]

“I’m Avin’ ‘Oops!”

January 29, 2009

 
“Slurp! Sloo!” – Gene Hunt, yesterday.

Is This Christmas Music? Part Twelve – New Kids On The Block ‘Merry Merry Christmas’

December 20, 2008

Christmas is, as Louise Hall-Taylor announces at the conclusion of The Nativity, “a time of celebration”. Clap Your Hands was the name of one of one of the tracks on Happy Mondays’ Madchester Rave On EP, which sat a couple of places below Band Aid II and Jason Donovan over the Christmas of 1989. Happy [...]