Many thanks to Phil and Pat, who have kindly left me a comment to let me know that I am on the BBC Four home page!
I don’t know how long the link will be there, but in the “Overheard on the Web” section (bottom right), next to a youthful picture of Cliff Richard, is a link to the blog entry I wrote about Pop Britannia.
Now I am sort of embarrassed, and wishing I’d edited the post into a more concise review, instead of waffling on about all sorts of nonsense. But hey! I’m on BBC Four!
We stayed up past our bedtime on Friday evening watching the third installment (which you can watch again here), and thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, we spent much of the weekend talking about our own experiences of pop music during the seventies, eighties and nineties, and discovered that a five-year age gap can make an enormous difference to your musical experience.
We also talked about writing to BBC Four, to let them know how much we’d enjoyed the programmes, and to say that we would very much like to see them expanded into a longer series. I appreciate that they have a lot of ground to cover in a very limited time, but the last programme particularly was notable to us for the sheer number of bands who had been left out. This is inevitable when you’re trying to cover the best part of three decades in only an hour, but it left us feeling as though we could have happily watched two more episodes.
If you missed the Pop Britannia programmes, all three are being repeated tonight, back to back, from 9pm on BBC Four.