Tag Archives: BBC

The button box, the relic and global obsolescence

Posted on July 14, 2014 by memoirsofahusk

I took my button box out of the cupboard a couple of weeks ago. Ever since then I’ve found myself wandering over to look at it, or gazing at it when I’m sitting nearby. I don’t know exactly why. Am … Continue reading →

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Five have fun in Africa. A lost work by Enid Blyton?

Posted on November 21, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

‘Africa 2013. Countdown to the Rains.’ ‘Africa’? Just, ‘Africa’? OK, so it’s a common form of shorthand. But not one you find in Europe. I mean, imagine it, ‘Europe 2013: snow’s on its way. Join us as the ski season … Continue reading →

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A new BBC radio programme, please, to cheer up the world

Posted on June 7, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

I’m sitting in a classroom, in a temporary building on a patch of waste ground. The ‘hut’, as we call it, looks as if it’s been dropped here by a tornado, like Dorothy’s farm in the Wizard of Oz. We’re … Continue reading →

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The price of fame: a cigar for Jimmy Savile

Posted on October 27, 2012 by memoirsofahusk

I’m standing in the back of a British Telecom van, hanging onto a shelf. There are no windows. Jimmy Savile wants to arrive unseen in Leicester Square – he’ll be mobbed, he says, if we go in a car with … Continue reading →

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