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Farscape – Shadowlands – tape 2545
This tape opens with a trail for the Friday Night Comedy Zone. Then, the very first episode of Farscape – or ‘Fire Escape’ as I now can’t help calling it, having listened to too many episodes of the...
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Orchestra! – Old Flames – tape 1088
First on this tape, the Dudley Moore programme Orchestra! which looks at the way an Orchestra works, in which Dudley Moore is helped by conductor Georg Solti, who looks like a very severe man, but in...
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Dark Season – tape 1654
This tape opens with the end of Newsround. With an impossibly young looking Krishnan Guru-Murthy. Toby Anstis is presenting from the Broom Cupboard. It’s a repeat showing of Dark Season, Russell T...
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Longitude – tape 2459
On this tape, the two-part Channel Four drama based on Dava Sobel’s book Longitude. It concerns the problem of calculating a ship’s position on the ocean. The latitude can be fairly easily reckoned by...
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Die Fledermaus – tape 1103
On this tape, going back a bit to 1990, is a gala performance of Die Fledermaus from Covent Garden. It’s a special performance because this marked the retirement of Dame Joan Sutherland from...
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Horizon – tape 2542
This is a shorter tape today, with three episodes of Horizon. The first two form something of a two-parter starting with Atlantis Uncovered. This programme looks at some of the myths of the story of...
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The Night He Came Home: John Carpenter’s Halloween – tape 2549
It’s an even shorter tape today, with one single programme on it. It’s The Night He Came Home: John Carpenter’s Halloween. A documentary by Mark Kermode, who can’t resist dressing up as The Shape for...
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Bugs – Hostile Waters – tape 2406
We’re in the Endgame now, as this tape is the first one on my final 4 terabyte hard drive. I finished the actual digitising of these tapes in July 2016, but because I could do several tapes a day, and...
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Doctor Who – K9 And Company – tape 1617
Back to when UK Gold were repeating classic Doctor Who – in fact, this was for the 30th anniversary, so I make that 1993. And this story is apparently the winner of the best monster – Warriors Of The...
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Alligator – V – tape 21
Today we’re going way back to one of the earlier tapes in my collection. The film today is Alligator, ranking third in the late 70s/80s monster movie pantheon, fairly far behind Piranha and Jaws. This...
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