1985: KATE BUSH on HOUNDS OF LOVE | Whistle Test | Classic BBC Music
Old UK Kate Bush joins Whistle Test’s Richard Skinner to discuss the making of her fifth album Hounds of Love,[…]
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1975: MAN vs MACHINE Street Sweeper Challenge | Tomorrow’s World
Old UK Michael Rodd pits Charlie – a veteran street sweeper with a spotless track record – against a new-fangled[…]
Read more1985: Jeff Cohen on playing Chunk in THE GOONIES | Wogan | Classic Movie Interviews
Old UK Eleven-year-old Jeff Cohen, one of the young stars of the beloved 1980s children’s action-adventure comedy The Goonies, discusses[…]
Read more1972: BILLIE JEAN KING and the Breakaway Tennis Tour | Midweek | Classic BBC Sport
Old UK BBC Midweek goes to the United States of America, where a group of women tennis players, led by[…]
Read more1968: Inside the APOLLO COMMAND MODULE | Tomorrow’s World |Retro Tech
Old UK “Before the end of next year, men could be flying across the moon’s surface and preparing to land.”[…]
Read more1966: By 1976 we will have ROBOT HOUSEKEEPERS | Tomorrow’s World | Past Predictions
Old UK Meet Able Mabel, the incredible robotic housekeeper, whose only function is to make your life more leisurely. She’ll[…]
Read more1993: Make your own THUNDERBIRDS TRACY ISLAND | Blue Peter | Childhood Nostalgia
Old UK In 1992, repeats of the classic 1960s puppet show Thunderbirds on BBC Two led to an unanticipated surge[…]
Read more1995: WINDOWS 95 launch – is Microsoft too big? | Newsnight | Retro Tech
Old UK Windows 95 has been launched, to the strains of Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones. The operating[…]
Read more1979: Will WORD PROCESSORS start a HOME WORKING revolution? | Past Predictions
Old UK Luke Casey examines the impact of the microprocessor in the workplace. Already, the adoption of word processors and[…]
Read more1985: Introducing the AMIGA | Micro Live | Retro Tech
Old UK Fred Harris gets his hands on the new Commodore Amiga, a personal computer so advanced that you can[…]
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