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Somewhere between Jennifer Eccles and King Midas In Reverse."},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/-\/bbc+radiophonic+workshop?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=4"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/bbc%20radiophonic%20workshop"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/-\/bbc+radiophonic+workshop\/-\/bbc+radiophonic+workshop?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=5\u0026max-results=4"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"12"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"4"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-7638963184450865353"},"published":{"$t":"2019-04-08T17:01:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2019-04-24T14:49:00.094+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"armando iannucci"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bbc radiophonic workshop"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"chris morris"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"peter cook"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"radio 3"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"radio that time forgot"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the beatles"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Larks Ascending"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjUYtiax-gbnrxzSeou5I2UdnQHmm6Cfz7IEDqUj8n_5GxNLIhPuX3n8aZj2WSit13u_OEoZwPWAedCjX-5rnUBpRln0WdTRgZQ0fj32WDWccgqVByMojop-LkCvDqpEU0_PtWBVNayH2HP\/s1600\/larksfc-1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1061\" data-original-width=\"723\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjUYtiax-gbnrxzSeou5I2UdnQHmm6Cfz7IEDqUj8n_5GxNLIhPuX3n8aZj2WSit13u_OEoZwPWAedCjX-5rnUBpRln0WdTRgZQ0fj32WDWccgqVByMojop-LkCvDqpEU0_PtWBVNayH2HP\/s640\/larksfc-1.png\" width=\"435\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EThe Larks Ascending\u003C\/b\u003E is a complete guide to comedy, humour and downright oddness on BBC Radio 3, from Kenneth Williams’ archival documentaries about strolling players who never existed, through Rowan Atkinson’s academic profiles of public figures who never existed, right up to Armando Iannucci’s interval talks about composers who did exist, but they’re fitting around him and his using his ears whether they like it or not.\n\nThere’s Chris Morris interviewing Peter Cook (and getting in trouble), BBC Radiophonic Workshop hi-jinks, the first ever proper staging of Joe Orton’s unused film script for The Beatles, some sitcoms that definitely wouldn’t appeal to viewers waiting for Coronation Street, satire, silliness, and a couple of plays about cricket. And if that’s just not highbrow enough for you, then you could always enrol at The Half-Open University…\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFeaturing in-depth looks at little-known and little-heard works by Peter Cook, Sue Townsend, Ivor Cutler, Kenneth Williams, N.F. Simpson, Peter Tinniswood, Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, Malcolm Bradbury, John Sessions, Joe Orton, David Renwick And Andrew Marshall, Rowan Atkinson, Toby Hadoke, The National Theatre Of Brent, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop and more, \u003Cb\u003EThe Larks Ascending\u003C\/b\u003E is the full history of silliness and satire on the channel that Dr. Hans Keller called a 'daytime music station'. Priced at just a few pence*!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(*Please direct all complaints about actual price to Peter Weevil and John Throgmorton, Polyphonica Neasdeniensis)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/the-larks-ascending-a-guide-to-comedy-on-bbc-radio-3\/paperback\/product-24047716.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPaperback\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - \u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B07Q73NBVZ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EKindle\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nYou can hear me talking about the book and some of the shows featured in it here:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ciframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200px\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.simplecast.com\/2156002a?color=f5f5f5\" width=\"100%\"\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/7638963184450865353"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/7638963184450865353"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/the-larks-ascending.html","title":"The Larks Ascending"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjUYtiax-gbnrxzSeou5I2UdnQHmm6Cfz7IEDqUj8n_5GxNLIhPuX3n8aZj2WSit13u_OEoZwPWAedCjX-5rnUBpRln0WdTRgZQ0fj32WDWccgqVByMojop-LkCvDqpEU0_PtWBVNayH2HP\/s72-c\/larksfc-1.png","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-1819450000126662495"},"published":{"$t":"2018-11-16T12:32:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-11-20T12:44:26.745+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bagpuss"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bbc radiophonic workshop"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bbc records and tapes"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"moogs funks breaks"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"play away"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"satire"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"smallfilms"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"that was the week that was"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tv 'clown' (test card)"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tv 'girl' (test card)"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tv that time forgot"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Wake Up And Look At This Thing That I Bring..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhHQEr71jQycYdi0DjU-ap0FgyOPa2SV_LyHumVR7Cemmx1etms5YB6C2R35WJMDENCJIwoYFkWPYJfl2Z-aOSW17TLtcce5BUQ41aTQY1SA4dvpAf7L7FQG5iIFpGfB-gCOcB3f5DIdIBr\/s1600\/frogp1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"556\" data-original-width=\"723\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhHQEr71jQycYdi0DjU-ap0FgyOPa2SV_LyHumVR7Cemmx1etms5YB6C2R35WJMDENCJIwoYFkWPYJfl2Z-aOSW17TLtcce5BUQ41aTQY1SA4dvpAf7L7FQG5iIFpGfB-gCOcB3f5DIdIBr\/s400\/frogp1.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nA look through Emily's shop window at a couple of things you might have missed if you haven't been following my main site (which you can find \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timworthington.org\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E)...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAnd You And I Would Call Them Dragonflies\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhROtsjiUp8jpPCRmKLIMZHohkxWNkhG7xDP4acriJXF4wiMEqvNy0-R6icfo61mFlt0fYch4eCZlVTGvPLRU9Lo97DKbbuEM478RTXk_NBE7b9wb6YDgn_sXXV6uFxWV0NgBO4iO-92FjP\/s1600\/frogp3.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"553\" data-original-width=\"723\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhROtsjiUp8jpPCRmKLIMZHohkxWNkhG7xDP4acriJXF4wiMEqvNy0-R6icfo61mFlt0fYch4eCZlVTGvPLRU9Lo97DKbbuEM478RTXk_NBE7b9wb6YDgn_sXXV6uFxWV0NgBO4iO-92FjP\/s400\/frogp3.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe story of my long search for the original recordings of the music from \u003Cb\u003EBagpuss\u003C\/b\u003E, with all manner of diversions about 'Acid Folk' and making tapes from off-air VHS recordings of Cable TV repeats, and a look at the new \u003Cb\u003EBagpuss\u003C\/b\u003E soundtrack CD. Which is handy. You can read it \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/11\/14\/and-you-and-i-would-call-them-dragonflies\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EShindig! Issue #85\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhAi13u4fOqpNw2WRTrSpXjkmo7syofVhbZOrOzse70GUbSGKxXDnvAUJoGiDnfNcdgZrtky3H_uWVY3kxxdqs1oohuy6Ybgg_LC7HxYxYhRt13j-3b0Rs_LmcS4MUcxbf4u5RVjsWf44mm\/s1600\/sd85.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"901\" data-original-width=\"637\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhAi13u4fOqpNw2WRTrSpXjkmo7syofVhbZOrOzse70GUbSGKxXDnvAUJoGiDnfNcdgZrtky3H_uWVY3kxxdqs1oohuy6Ybgg_LC7HxYxYhRt13j-3b0Rs_LmcS4MUcxbf4u5RVjsWf44mm\/s400\/sd85.png\" width=\"282\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI've got a feature in the latest issue of \u003Cb\u003EShindig!\u003C\/b\u003E about the hidden beat, psych and folk highlights in the BBC Records And Tapes catalogue, featuring everyone from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to the \u003Cb\u003EPlay Away\u003C\/b\u003E team, and even TV 'Girl' and 'Clown' (Test Card). Find out more about it \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/11\/01\/shindig-issue-85\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EI've Heard Of Politics, But This Is Ridiculous\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiakyJIvy4OldKqidy99j3Q6fLzxrSRIOeF0ZBOmqMWeSmlzOzOKMKq5BcO-88qn_dgNS9IcsvKASJqXseSN3azned4Yd58Osx25tPfY26cIyI5duyYm2pKW0HM_9hhVI7QrRfYrUCRyPEG\/s1600\/tw31.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"472\" data-original-width=\"634\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiakyJIvy4OldKqidy99j3Q6fLzxrSRIOeF0ZBOmqMWeSmlzOzOKMKq5BcO-88qn_dgNS9IcsvKASJqXseSN3azned4Yd58Osx25tPfY26cIyI5duyYm2pKW0HM_9hhVI7QrRfYrUCRyPEG\/s400\/tw31.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nNow that charity shops are better organised and make more money for \ncharity with sensible prices, it's a lot less fun rooting through them. \nAlthough they do smell slightly less of damp cardboard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBack in \nthe days when everything was stacked together in haphazard piles without\n any thought for genre, media or even size, though, you could chance \nupon something that literally changed the way you thought about \neverything. Well, that or fifteen copies of that \u003Cb\u003EThe Adriatic Formula\u003C\/b\u003E b\u003Cspan class=\"text_exposed_show\"\u003Eook.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis is the story of how I found an early sixties book based on a then \nlong-forgotten television satire show, and how that changed everything \nfor me. Read all about it \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2017\/08\/19\/ive-heard-of-politics-but-this-is-ridiculous\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"background: rgb(127, 0, 0); color: #7f0000; height: 2px; width: 90%;\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjV2tEd2M6RDdEgbRS___llTI8cQ-TDmgsn282LnTqaQ2Lk2ZB8tg_WqqN53sf9Fk1dItVrHPLEpBWzW1yUZCofnvo8OqYnceA-PmcXHp1SP3w8YSOb86CO_lSS5r9ZCCkyyHGSZ7khpO5w\/s1600\/epubcover.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"906\" data-original-width=\"560\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjV2tEd2M6RDdEgbRS___llTI8cQ-TDmgsn282LnTqaQ2Lk2ZB8tg_WqqN53sf9Fk1dItVrHPLEpBWzW1yUZCofnvo8OqYnceA-PmcXHp1SP3w8YSOb86CO_lSS5r9ZCCkyyHGSZ7khpO5w\/s200\/epubcover.png\" width=\"123\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\n\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou can find more tales of record collecting in dingy charity shops \nand hunting for obscure television soundtrack music in my book\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/books\/cant-help-thinking-about-me\/\"\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECan’t Help Thinking About Me\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, available in paperback\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/cant-help-thinking-about-me\/paperback\/product-23730103.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;or from the Kindle Store\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cant-Help-Thinking-About-Accidentally-ebook\/dp\/B07FSF39R4\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/1819450000126662495"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/1819450000126662495"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/wake-up-and-look-at-this-thing-that-i.html","title":"Wake Up And Look At This Thing That I Bring..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhHQEr71jQycYdi0DjU-ap0FgyOPa2SV_LyHumVR7Cemmx1etms5YB6C2R35WJMDENCJIwoYFkWPYJfl2Z-aOSW17TLtcce5BUQ41aTQY1SA4dvpAf7L7FQG5iIFpGfB-gCOcB3f5DIdIBr\/s72-c\/frogp1.png","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-8537908663112165839"},"published":{"$t":"2018-06-21T17:02:00.002+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-06-21T17:02:27.313+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bbc radiophonic workshop"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bbc records and tapes"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"brian cant"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jazz"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nick drake"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"paddy kingsland"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"play away"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"samira ahmed"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the changes"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"top of the box"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Tim Worthington Presents... Some Stuff About Jazz, Folk, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop And Play Away"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Here's a collection of recent highlights from \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timworthington.org\/\"\u003Emy new website\u003C\/a\u003E; because if you're reading this, you're probably not reading that. And missing out on the likes of...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhc0Hdpdj3HLrZXVyqA_6B8vylHkbjNwH3bFQWDiTRsyclonlB5nhMOFBwLwQ_nLo0zHPIeKwsKC_Q5YXrPbHNNw125g5OIasN0b5kaDmJ73VrhsVel-ltbSfXRe1IePGnrIikkoJ80wiKi\/s1600\/tonr.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"600\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhc0Hdpdj3HLrZXVyqA_6B8vylHkbjNwH3bFQWDiTRsyclonlB5nhMOFBwLwQ_nLo0zHPIeKwsKC_Q5YXrPbHNNw125g5OIasN0b5kaDmJ73VrhsVel-ltbSfXRe1IePGnrIikkoJ80wiKi\/s400\/tonr.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/06\/18\/all-its-wonder-to-know\/\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAll Its Wonder To Know\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - a look at where the original version of \u003Cb\u003EI Was Made To Love Magic\u003C\/b\u003E by Nick Drake has disappeared to, and why it deserves to come back.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhMGlYn0uGR_LN0mnP2KLg_ke7dEx7vGyDYdsb6jt8x1ZPe_wtP8FkuB24_1MnpDuWc94IvOQa_dOQqdbHlnF9GQwo54JHJg4YzFS4zIrItMnd9b9WelGTergGzfZwgqNEnBNwkbWBS4Omy\/s1600\/thechanges.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"550\" data-original-width=\"550\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhMGlYn0uGR_LN0mnP2KLg_ke7dEx7vGyDYdsb6jt8x1ZPe_wtP8FkuB24_1MnpDuWc94IvOQa_dOQqdbHlnF9GQwo54JHJg4YzFS4zIrItMnd9b9WelGTergGzfZwgqNEnBNwkbWBS4Omy\/s400\/thechanges.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/04\/21\/opening-theme-two-bands-of-incidental-music-and-closing-theme\/\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EOpening Theme, Two Bands Of Incidental Music And Closing Theme\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - the history of the soundtrack to mid-seventies Children's BBC near-future thriller \u003Cb\u003EThe Changes\u003C\/b\u003E. You can also hear me chatting to Samira Ahmed about \u003Cb\u003EThe Changes\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/02\/25\/looks-unfamiliar-14-samira-ahmed-they-all-had-hair-like-russ-tamblyn\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiudlZt3mJIKJ_Pga-BIs3fUxvNOoyB-amwcFA34Vz11qvI65C81WCAmWlJxWXtMxoZxJzx6l-kedaS60b7SstXeGMtO92uaXg9BcjEuG3bVuej5ZzrHCecnVZDKBlxvNcRC_RHp9zj_gbs\/s1600\/playaway.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"598\" data-original-width=\"600\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiudlZt3mJIKJ_Pga-BIs3fUxvNOoyB-amwcFA34Vz11qvI65C81WCAmWlJxWXtMxoZxJzx6l-kedaS60b7SstXeGMtO92uaXg9BcjEuG3bVuej5ZzrHCecnVZDKBlxvNcRC_RHp9zj_gbs\/s400\/playaway.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/05\/03\/if-youre-feeling-happy-tap-your-feet\/\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EIf You're Feeling Happy, Tap Your Feet\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - there are tons of officially released versions of the theme from \u003Cb\u003EPlay Away\u003C\/b\u003E, and none of them quite match up to what you would have heard on screen. This is a ridiculously comprehensive guide to all of them. And don't forget that \u003Cb\u003ETop Of The Box\u003C\/b\u003E, my book about every single released by BBC Records And Tapes (which also looks at \u003Cb\u003EThe Changes\u003C\/b\u003E) is still available from \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/books\/top-of-the-box\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi2qDTke4qlFEP0gqIRiJ2A-tYr6tY5rU25wzu_5Ul3N-RfVZpNSoVK5wBQqg3MDjDSq08RYFbKMslCef2H7KJEknWkbLopY6MbUJ6DK1Ban8BTh4ZsVmiGk2SsdDb2yA6FYOwkStQOtXSY\/s1600\/jazzonthecorner.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"723\" data-original-width=\"723\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi2qDTke4qlFEP0gqIRiJ2A-tYr6tY5rU25wzu_5Ul3N-RfVZpNSoVK5wBQqg3MDjDSq08RYFbKMslCef2H7KJEknWkbLopY6MbUJ6DK1Ban8BTh4ZsVmiGk2SsdDb2yA6FYOwkStQOtXSY\/s400\/jazzonthecorner.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/04\/19\/listen-here\/\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EListen Here\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E - Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller's compilation \u003Cb\u003EJazz On The Corner\u003C\/b\u003E is one of the best compilations I've heard in a long time and is full of exciting stuff from all genres and definitions of 'jazz'. I have a go at explaning why.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd don't forget to have a look around at the rest of the site while you're there - there's plenty of other new articles you might have missed, and more editions of \u003Cb\u003ELooks Unfamiliar\u003C\/b\u003E. And more coming soon! Including lots of extraneous uses of the word 'and'!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"background: rgb(127, 0, 0); color: #7f0000; height: 2px; width: 90%;\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhy1ocPWN8jhQDilyql8k2v1uPu6l8dF0snFSuPUF13NJ2YfnKUhjXAJ33eWC3kbBOtY9vQXmm0WHkSC3RhnmaGKNRoEqa4LnuIbw7veSPxZI5Et3Npby1PxWfaOxP-04v_K5pO0nlukpg6\/s1600\/cover.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhy1ocPWN8jhQDilyql8k2v1uPu6l8dF0snFSuPUF13NJ2YfnKUhjXAJ33eWC3kbBOtY9vQXmm0WHkSC3RhnmaGKNRoEqa4LnuIbw7veSPxZI5Et3Npby1PxWfaOxP-04v_K5pO0nlukpg6\/s200\/cover.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cb\u003ETop Of The Box - The Story Behind Every BBC Records And Tapes\u0026nbsp;Single\u003C\/b\u003E\u0026nbsp;is available in paperback \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/top-of-the-box\/paperback\/product-22454046.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E or from the Kindle Store \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Top-Box-Complete-Records-Singles-ebook\/dp\/B01MRSV95X\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E. And there's several other books to choose from \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.co.uk\/p\/books.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E...\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/8537908663112165839"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/8537908663112165839"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/tim-worthington-presents-some-stuff.html","title":"Tim Worthington Presents... Some Stuff About Jazz, Folk, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop And Play Away"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhc0Hdpdj3HLrZXVyqA_6B8vylHkbjNwH3bFQWDiTRsyclonlB5nhMOFBwLwQ_nLo0zHPIeKwsKC_Q5YXrPbHNNw125g5OIasN0b5kaDmJ73VrhsVel-ltbSfXRe1IePGnrIikkoJ80wiKi\/s72-c\/tonr.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1900616647854839749.post-6665194111400264822"},"published":{"$t":"2017-07-07T19:25:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2018-05-10T15:22:38.034+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bbc radiophonic workshop"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"children's bbc"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"monty python"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"play school"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"radio times"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"swap shop"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"top of the pops"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tv that time forgot"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"well at least it's free"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"zokko!"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"BWAMmM it’s ZOKKO!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEim4n2Gknug2z-9k8WGcWnBZr-nOAkjg4RplEcGOVeasG384_ZBtIBGXEkXix2vAdFSDw_39O0_x7ag4MPgGrOJKPJowIYouIldG3l4l6WHJ_mF7wsifaWfVIdyLjYttTR1ssa5-sD95-c8\/s1600\/zokko1-a.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"162\" data-original-width=\"190\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEim4n2Gknug2z-9k8WGcWnBZr-nOAkjg4RplEcGOVeasG384_ZBtIBGXEkXix2vAdFSDw_39O0_x7ag4MPgGrOJKPJowIYouIldG3l4l6WHJ_mF7wsifaWfVIdyLjYttTR1ssa5-sD95-c8\/s400\/zokko1-a.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EIt Started With Swap Shop\u003C\/b\u003E was the name of a light-hearted retrospective broadcast by BBC2 in 2006, ostensibly celebrating thirty years of Saturday morning television but concentrating on one particular key example of the genre; \u003Cb\u003ENoel Edmonds’ Multicoloured Swap Shop\u003C\/b\u003E.\nLike so many other light-hearted histories of the timeslot, this made the mistake of implicitly crediting Edmonds and company with the invention of the show format and pretty much the first ever use of the timeslot full stop. There were in fact a handful of now pretty much forgotten antecedents of \u003Cb\u003ESwap Shop\u003C\/b\u003E, although the reasons for their being left out of such an overview are quite understandable. \u003Cb\u003ESaturday Scene\u003C\/b\u003E, dating from 1973 and effectively the first use of the now-familiar Saturday morning format, was an ITV show, while the BBC’s own previous attempts at finding something suitable for this awkward timeslot were, to be blunt, just too downright weird to revisit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nPrior to 1968, neither the BBC nor ITV had really paid much attention to Saturday mornings. Although attendances were already dwindling, there still remained a strong and long-established tradition of Saturday morning cinema clubs, which provided young audiences with several hours’ worth of cartoons, serials and onstage games and entertainment. With broadcast technology still in its infancy, there seemed little point in starting up transmission for the benefit of an audience that would mostly be otherwise engaged. Usual practice – as far as the BBC was concerned – was simply to run an old film serial or an imported cartoon series after their transmission tests early in the morning, then possibly another before \u003Cb\u003EGrandstand\u003C\/b\u003E started at midday, and leave screens blank for the remainder of the morning.\nEarly in 1968, as part of a general overhaul of their output instigated by incoming departmental head Monica Sims, the BBC Children’s Department began to look into the idea of introducing structured programming to Saturday mornings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjOWWu5KndzH3HNh2BAF3CcheXxI4ijowPpt6fnhSaKB8ITWGy0ZLiMyEUhLGoIdy-Zl1IosAiHxRjFKWo0AEu137Cuy3JWpSfV90wimzNWZj4XQGjj4-lOd2C1PhgJX71G7P0rI0_3GPZC\/s1600\/whoosh.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"400\" data-original-width=\"464\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjOWWu5KndzH3HNh2BAF3CcheXxI4ijowPpt6fnhSaKB8ITWGy0ZLiMyEUhLGoIdy-Zl1IosAiHxRjFKWo0AEu137Cuy3JWpSfV90wimzNWZj4XQGjj4-lOd2C1PhgJX71G7P0rI0_3GPZC\/s400\/whoosh.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBetween 30th March and 22nd June 1968, an experimental – in both senses – magazine show called \u003Cb\u003EWhoosh!\u003C\/b\u003E was added to the Saturday morning schedules. Devised by former \u003Cb\u003EPlay School\u003C\/b\u003E production team Cynthia Felgate and Peter Ridsdale-Scott, \u003Cb\u003EWhoosh!\u003C\/b\u003E featured \u003Cb\u003EPlay School\u003C\/b\u003E presenter Rick Jones, ballet dancer turned comedienne Dawn Macdonald - who got the job after sending Felgate a photo of herself pulling a ridiculous face - and former child actor Jonathan Collins in what \u003Cb\u003ERadio Times\u003C\/b\u003E described as ‘a place where anything can happen’ – in other words a surreal, psychedelically-decorated studio set full of eccentric prop machinery, where they tried to solve riddles and puzzles with the occasional filmed insert cued in to show them venturing ‘outdoors’. While this was some way away from the later style of Saturday morning shows, it nonetheless anticipated their energy and interplay, and predilection for offbeat storyline-driven formats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhile \u003Cb\u003EWhoosh!\u003C\/b\u003E was certainly successful, and viewers enjoyed the heavy element of write-in interactivity, Sims felt that a more loose and fast-moving format akin to a televised comic was more appropriate for Saturday mornings, and was inclined to dispense with human presenters altogether. Eventually an experimental thirteen-week slot was decided on, and Children’s Department veteran Molly Cox, who had partly devised \u003Cb\u003EJackanory\u003C\/b\u003E and acted as its first director, was asked to come up with a suitable format in collaboration with newcomer Paul Ciani. Cox and Ciani shared Sims’ feelings about the kind of material appropriate for the timeslot; Saturday cinema had been a rowdy, colourful affair with plenty of action and comedy, and as such they took advantage of the perceived lack of need for a human presenter as an opportunity to pack as much action, comedy and pop music as possible into the available timeframe.\nThe result of this meeting of minds was \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E, an 'electronic comic' that would zip between short features at high speed, and sought to replicate the effect of a reader flicking through an actual comic in search of their favourite strips and features. The show would contain a combination of in-house animation, stock footage, pop music, and a small amount of specially shot light entertainment material, all cut together using ‘pop art’ editing effects and graphical design that might more normally have been found on shows like \u003Cb\u003ETop Of The Pops\u003C\/b\u003E or Spike Milligan’s \u003Cb\u003EQ5\u003C\/b\u003E. The overall effect of this was, needless to say, disorientating and deeply strange.\nIntroduced by a lengthy \u003Cb\u003ERadio Times\u003C\/b\u003E piece urging viewers to 'Place a regular order with your television set NOW!', accompanied by an eye-catching Roy Lichtenstein-like pop-art illustration proclaiming 'BWAMmM it’s ZOKKO!', \u003Cb\u003EZokko\u003C\/b\u003E! began its first thirteen-week run on 2nd November 1968.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n‘Perplexing’ is not too strong a word to use about \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E, and it virtually defies description even today.\nIn place of the rejected human presenter, the production team opted instead for a talking pinball machine. Built by BBC Visual Effects designer Mike Ellis (father of later \u003Cb\u003EBlue Peter\u003C\/b\u003E presenter Janet), this was a fully functioning prop, with its electronic voice provided by Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. This would link the entire programme by autoplaying games, with each score corresponding to a different item, which would appear ‘through’ the holes in the pinball table as the robotic voice intoned the appropriate announcement (\u003Ci\u003E“Zokko … Score 15 … Serial”\u003C\/i\u003E). Some of these items were made up of handy filler material that happened to be available, such as stock footage of racing car speed tests and bulk-bought Disney extracts, but unusually for a programme of this nature the vast majority were specially made in-house.\nAs well as basic animations telling corny jokes (many of them penned by moonlighting novelist Ted Lewis) and short silent films of surreal slapstick gags, each edition of\u003Cb\u003E Zokko!\u003C\/b\u003E included a running serial, pop records, and a live variety act.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjFV_QDXmrScpvtD4-zxnNrZOuW0Zys7JVocvmDRsENlPDZU2-H4KYirTzAil1p1lhkBr2fmBmOf8t5rhOKL_-05Cylg7Szyg3wSS_Wgg1XyIHIdSxyG6vlfJE6hlkozgVRCPYpu5fH_GPb\/s1600\/zokko1.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"416\" data-original-width=\"231\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjFV_QDXmrScpvtD4-zxnNrZOuW0Zys7JVocvmDRsENlPDZU2-H4KYirTzAil1p1lhkBr2fmBmOf8t5rhOKL_-05Cylg7Szyg3wSS_Wgg1XyIHIdSxyG6vlfJE6hlkozgVRCPYpu5fH_GPb\/s640\/zokko1.png\" width=\"352\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSpanning the entire run, the sci-fi adventure yarn \u003Cb\u003ESkayn\u003C\/b\u003E – concerning the theft of a gravity-wave-hologram capable of causing the Earth and the Moon to collide – was told through huge blow-ups of comic strip-style panels drawn by Leslie Caswell, with a pre-recorded dialogue track provided by prolific character actors Gordon Clyde, Sheelagh McGrath and Anthony Jackson.\nUnconventionally presented and drenched in bleeping Radiophonics, the serial segments came across as strangely tranquil and hypnotic, contrasting effectively with the loud and frenetic style of the rest of the programme. Leaning strongly towards jazzy ‘beat’ outfits like The Alan Price Set, Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames and The New Vaudeville Band, the pop tracks were accompanied by extremely well directed shorts reflecting the lyrical themes of the chosen numbers, some of which were also used in editions of \u003Cb\u003ETop Of The Pops\u003C\/b\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nMeanwhile, the variety acts simply turned up and did their stage performance within the very cramped confines of the \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E studio, doubtless causing severe logistical problems for the numerous jugglers. Even the basic list of artistes who appeared on the show makes for fascinating reading, featuring such evocative and long-forgotten names as The Tumblairs, The Skating Meteors, and The Breathtaking Eddy Limbo and ‘Pat’. A handful of more established acts would also show up including conjuring legend Ali Bongo; veteran brother and sister acrobatic duo Johnny and Suma Lamonte; visiting American Phil Enos and his Amazing Comedy Car; and popular illusionist and judo expert Geoff Ray, who though now retired still proudly includes \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E on his CV. Most notorious however were Arthur Scott and his Performing Seals, who left the tiny studio reeking so strongly of fish that recording was disrupted for days afterwards.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf this all sounds like a rather mindbending assembly of entertainment, its disorientating nature was amplified to nightmarish and jaw-dropping proportions by the adoption of a deeply psychedelic ‘Swinging London’ visual style, complete with flashing designs that looked garish even in black and white, captions written in lettering that would not have appeared out of place in an advert for a Carnaby Street boutique, and crash zooms on a modishly redesigned poster of Lord Kitchener. Even by the standards of the day this was a visually arresting approach, but the target audience seem to have taken it in their stride and \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E proved highly popular, with so many viewers writing in about the programme that the production team eventually had to start sending out postcards ‘from’ the talking pinball machine.\nIndeed, \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E was promptly repeated in full in the regular Wednesday afternoon children’s’ schedules from 6th August 1969, and Brian Fahey’s catchy theme music was released as a single, with the Band Parade music that also featured in the show on the b-side.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg_6ZEDucEZY9ipcuysf-pSi372ZqTlplzqvUYYwbYBLOBWLJP3CLxxhFP4C6bsqQ9FPDx5VYWcGlT4hFAEQwZ9GVwveXboOsUbkacM7QDdiC5VRtn9IBlgWJ3u6TOLm_SdepQZ9UpZLTvH\/s1600\/zokrt2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"291\" data-original-width=\"217\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg_6ZEDucEZY9ipcuysf-pSi372ZqTlplzqvUYYwbYBLOBWLJP3CLxxhFP4C6bsqQ9FPDx5VYWcGlT4hFAEQwZ9GVwveXboOsUbkacM7QDdiC5VRtn9IBlgWJ3u6TOLm_SdepQZ9UpZLTvH\/s400\/zokrt2.jpg\" width=\"298\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhile the BBC had reverted to their regular Saturday morning pattern of a lone edition of \u003Cb\u003EDeputy Dawg\u003C\/b\u003E once the first run had finished, a second series of \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E had been planned from very early on, and indeed would follow virtually straight on from the repeat run.\nWith the Radio Times proudly proclaiming 'All For Fun! Fun For All! Tar-rah!', \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E returned for another thirteen week residency on Saturday mornings, starting from 6th December 1969. Although the new series retained the same production team, some significant changes were made; the sometimes excessively psychedelic design elements were toned down slightly in favour of a stark ‘two tone’ approach, and the pinball machine device was dropped altogether. The reasons for this decision have never been disclosed, although it is rumoured the expensive prop was damaged in storage and the cost of repairs would have been beyond the means of the meagre budget allocated for the second run.\nDespite this, \u003Cb\u003ERadio Times\u003C\/b\u003E’ introduction to the new series promised the return of 'the old favourites and some new ones', alongside 'a brand new music machine, the like of which has never been seen before'. Said device was essentially a scaled-down \u003Cb\u003ETop Of The Pops\u003C\/b\u003E set with a revolving stage, festooned with flashing lights and surrounded by gigantic bubbling test tubes, and resembling an antique pipe organ rebuilt to the specifications of the set designer of \u003Cb\u003EWilly Wonka And The Chocolate Factory\u003C\/b\u003E. Filmed with camera angles better suited to a raucous pop music show - and more than likely the inspiration for the remarkably similar ‘Jackie Charlton and the Tonettes’ sketch in the second series of \u003Cb\u003EMonty Python’s Flying Circus\u003C\/b\u003E, recorded shortly after the second series of \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E had aired - the indefinable contraption would pump out excerpts from stage musicals and instrumental pop hits while punningly appropriate inanimate objects revolved in the centre.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhile this occupied the linking role formerly occupied by the pinball machine, the actual contents of the show remained much the same and just as mind-frazzling as ever. The animations, pop films, awful jokes, Disney extracts, stock footage, jarring bursts of exclamation marks and electronically treated voices were all back on board. \u003Cb\u003ESkayn\u003C\/b\u003E returned for a new eight-part adventure, this time sent to investigate saboteurs at large on a moon colony, and the final five shows of the run were given over to the big top crime thriller \u003Cb\u003ESusan Starr Of The Circus\u003C\/b\u003E, with voices provided by Jennifer Hill, Alan Devereux and Stanley Page,.\nThe variety acts, meanwhile, remained as deliriously esoteric as before, top acts this time including The Skating Fontaines ('Thrills at Speed'), Ronny Cool ('Fantasy in Flames'), The Tricky Terriers ('Dog-gone Fun!'), Paul Fox ('The Act That’s Full of Bounce') who amusingly shared his name with the then-controller of BBC1, and Annalou and Maria, who promised 'A Feather and Fur Fantasy' that was doubtless far more innocent than it sounds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E was last sighted on television screens on 28th February 1970, but its brief burst of ragged psychedelic lunacy had certainly left an impression on viewers, and would prove to have a more enduring legacy. Clearly undeterred by the sheer oddness of the results, the BBC would continue to allow Ciani to carry out equally unhinged experiments at finding a suitable format for Saturday morning television. \u003Cb\u003EEd And Zed\u003C\/b\u003E, which enjoyed a brief run later in 1970, paired Radio 1 DJ Ed Stewart with a robot assistant named Zed (voiced by Anthony Jackson) for a similar menu of low-key serials and Disney excerpts, although they were allowed to have proper bands in the studio this time. That said, given said musical acts included former Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band ‘mad scientist’ Roger Ruskin-Spear and his performing robots, this may not have been as much of a concession to sensibility as it might appear. This was followed in 1973 by \u003Cb\u003EOuta Space!\u003C\/b\u003E, a show ‘presented’ by a pair of disembodied alien hands at the controls of a spaceship, in which the ever-present Disney footage rubbed shoulders with a familiar diet of pop-soundtracked films, semi-educational inserts on dinosaurs, and the gripping storyboard serial \u003Cb\u003EVidar And The Ice Monster\u003C\/b\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj3XJqHXJ6-BsriNBdgYIM_HBEJxnY7orhbG6_YSt96N_RHSdwaQ3D52nfyrbZxHcR52lyaqOdJjlbsOE5gmum72udf9gnVy3w4Hy5I9HuVzmwbsZriooFkrBMx-VqSLkxx4Sw2suTaiNDz\/s1600\/edzed2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"489\" data-original-width=\"216\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj3XJqHXJ6-BsriNBdgYIM_HBEJxnY7orhbG6_YSt96N_RHSdwaQ3D52nfyrbZxHcR52lyaqOdJjlbsOE5gmum72udf9gnVy3w4Hy5I9HuVzmwbsZriooFkrBMx-VqSLkxx4Sw2suTaiNDz\/s640\/edzed2.png\" width=\"282\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAlthough it may seem something of a massive jump from these insane early efforts to the more familiar format that has pretty much defined Saturday morning television from the arrival of \u003Cb\u003ESaturday Scene\u003C\/b\u003E and \u003Cb\u003EMulticoloured Swap Shop\u003C\/b\u003E onwards, the truth of the matter is \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E and company are essentially a rough pencil sketch of the final format. This is particularly pertinent when \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E is compared directly to early editions of Swap Shop; the obvious difference of an avuncular unscripted presenter and live interaction with viewers aside, they have much in common, with the musical inserts simply replaced by proper bands and the Hanna Barbera and Gordon Murray animations standing in for bulk-bought Disney. Even the whimsy and corny jokes are essentially similar; all that \u003Cb\u003ESwap Shop\u003C\/b\u003E really did was to give them more structure and bring in John Craven as a comedy straightman.\nAlthough Molly Cox would soon return to the relative normality of factual programming, her subsequent credits including \u003Cb\u003ETake Hart\u003C\/b\u003E, \u003Cb\u003ERoy Castle Beats Time\u003C\/b\u003E and \u003Cb\u003EWhy Don’t You?\u003C\/b\u003E, Paul Ciani would later put the lunacy he had learned on \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E and its follow-ons to good use. Most prominently he would serve as the longtime director and producer of \u003Cb\u003ERentaghost\u003C\/b\u003E (again featuring Anthony Jackson), \u003Cb\u003EThe Basil Brush Show\u003C\/b\u003E and\u003Cb\u003E Crackerjack!\u003C\/b\u003E, but also helmed a number of long-forgotten yet fondly-remembered offbeat children’s comedy shows such as \u003Cb\u003EHope And Keen’s Crazy House\u003C\/b\u003E, \u003Cb\u003EBonny!\u003C\/b\u003E and \u003Cb\u003EGreat Big Groovy Horse\u003C\/b\u003E, as well working on many top-rated light entertainment series including \u003Cb\u003EThe Kenny Everett Television Show\u003C\/b\u003E, \u003Cb\u003EThe Paul Daniels Magic Show\u003C\/b\u003E and \u003Cb\u003ETop Of The Pops\u003C\/b\u003E, where he somehow resisted the temptation to fill the stage with bubbling test tubes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSadly, but not entirely unpredictably, very little of \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E now survives in the archives. The original master tape of the final second series edition escaped wiping by pure chance, and more recently a telerecording of a compilation edition of highlights from that run was recovered from a private collector. On the plus side this does mean that both Skayn and Susan Starr have had their adventures - or at least a fragment thereof - preserved for posterity, but unfortunately, bar a couple of photographs, nothing remains of the talking pinball machine that seems to have burnt itself indelibly onto so many memories.\nIt’s a fair bet that even the slightest thought of \u003Cb\u003EIt Started With Zokko!\u003C\/b\u003E would be enough to give documentary and clip show producers weeks of psychedelically-flashing radiophonically-doused nightmares, but in all fairness \u003Cb\u003EZokko!\u003C\/b\u003E really was where it all began. Well, unless you count \u003Cb\u003EWhoosh!\u003C\/b\u003E.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhUngbxwOXI8p50P4PRu1j5bmkTXvoYderyMeQB6PQiKvOwU_lVCiPxW8toAUE-TduJlMYrLIdyXYv-nyNZl87q0TD0IUQTjdPWajAHKuo51h8qbxOr0x2mbifhE1agXx7SqR-ZprEE7Wr8\/s1600\/zokko3.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"364\" data-original-width=\"471\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhUngbxwOXI8p50P4PRu1j5bmkTXvoYderyMeQB6PQiKvOwU_lVCiPxW8toAUE-TduJlMYrLIdyXYv-nyNZl87q0TD0IUQTjdPWajAHKuo51h8qbxOr0x2mbifhE1agXx7SqR-ZprEE7Wr8\/s400\/zokko3.png\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"background: rgb(127, 0, 0); color: #7f0000; height: 2px; width: 90%;\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIf you're interested in the obscure and now largely lost corners of sixties television, then you might also enjoy this feature on \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/timworthington.org\/2018\/03\/03\/a-story-of-a-london-family-adapting-to-life-in-a-country-town\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Newcomers\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Chr style=\"background: rgb(127, 0, 0); color: #7f0000; height: 2px; width: 90%;\" \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgxHqMS-48uo-IkM094zA541cuYye6zdlqcHqaz_sqBadN1itPYhXTme7nMC3oKW-hJlAgOK5oxQ6L4h_FG5gdngcWOTb_81g925ecvqHwW5vfZOMc3Q_EBhNxETCMjjfTCMRmG7Ig0nSE1\/s1600\/wellatcov2.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1067\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgxHqMS-48uo-IkM094zA541cuYye6zdlqcHqaz_sqBadN1itPYhXTme7nMC3oKW-hJlAgOK5oxQ6L4h_FG5gdngcWOTb_81g925ecvqHwW5vfZOMc3Q_EBhNxETCMjjfTCMRmG7Ig0nSE1\/s200\/wellatcov2.png\" width=\"133\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003EThis piece is adapted from \u003Cb\u003ENoise! Adventure! Glitter!\u003C\/b\u003E, an article featured in my book \u003Cb\u003EWell At Least It's Free\u003C\/b\u003E. You can get \u003Cb\u003EWell At Least It's Free\u003C\/b\u003E in paperback \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/tim-worthington\/well-at-least-its-free\/paperback\/product-22018388.html\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E or from the Kindle Store \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Well-At-Least-Its-Free-ebook\/dp\/B01M6BBQ9J\/\"\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/6665194111400264822"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/1900616647854839749\/posts\/default\/6665194111400264822"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/timworthington.blogspot.com\/2017\/07\/bwammm-its-zokko.html","title":"BWAMmM it’s ZOKKO!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Tim Worthington"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/05135653945070797299"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEir5WSawHwPXHWPXucWVdkl7vIrEHsadrppC7m0BjltungMuHppwnepv4Jh4wi-tGMTLbBQGQB6-3TOtIkpTSTHTt_Id7vQi5UIHl9P6E3CcW3t9Q3qhryOKtauUSPXMUY\/s113\/profilebackup.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEim4n2Gknug2z-9k8WGcWnBZr-nOAkjg4RplEcGOVeasG384_ZBtIBGXEkXix2vAdFSDw_39O0_x7ag4MPgGrOJKPJowIYouIldG3l4l6WHJ_mF7wsifaWfVIdyLjYttTR1ssa5-sD95-c8\/s72-c\/zokko1-a.png","height":"72","width":"72"}}]}});