A small family run TV station based in Hertfordshire UK, regularly attracts audiences in their Millions, screening Archive TV that the Big broadcasters no longer care to show.This was the motivation that Founder Noel Cronin and his Daughter
John conceived the idea and made the original design of Teletext in the early 1970’s whilst working at Philips / Mullard Central Application Laboratories (CAL) in London.He left Manchester university in 1970 with a passionate desire to wo
Allow me little bit of self indulgence!During the week of the 50th Anniversary of Ceefax in September 2024, Myself, Nathan Dane, Jason Robertson and Graham Lovelace were interviewed on BBC local Radio Stations.Here are interviews from BBC Es
Discovered from some reel to reel tapes made in the early 1970s was an account of a Roman ghosts in West Mersea in Essex as well as the unfortunate treatment of 'Witches' in Thorpe Le Soken, Saint Osyth and strange goings on in Great Leighs in
Teletext50: The StoriesA Byte High No Limit / illarterate co-productionIn 1974, a brand new technology called teletext was being rolled out. It would, over the next few decades, have far-reaching implications, not only in the UK but worldwi
James Domestic grew up in Essex, is a compulsive songwriter, a musician, occasional DJ, painter, poet, and punk.He holds a doctorate from the University of Essex, has toured the world and elsewhere with The Domestics, and made records with mor
Bob Pape's Dead Lights,Bob and I discuss Curious, Forgotten and Unusual films.In this Episode12:01pm (1990)He Never Died (2015)The Giant Claw (1957)I Woke Up Early The Day I Died (1998)Please do leave us feedback on the discord or X tw
This Episode I had the pleasure of the host of Floppy Days, Randy Kindig.11 years and 141 episodes so far and his quest to cover every home computer chronologically has only got him to 1984's Grundy Newbrain! what dedication.Randy Speaks to m
Yes, The Unpublished chapter!!Bob Pape is a computer game coder that came into prominence in the 8 bit world with his conversion of the Irem coin-op R-type to the humble ZX Spectrum.Around ten years ago he wrote an account of how he made the
Bob Pape is a computer game coder that came into prominence in the 8 bit world with his conversion of the Irem coin-op R-type to the humble ZX Spectrum.Around ten years ago he wrote an account of how he made the game and described a less than
At 23:32:19 BST on 23 October 2012, Schoolboy Nathan Dane witnessed the close down of BBC's teletext service CEEFAX. The following years a pursuit to revive the abandoned service was realised with NMS CEEFAX, a fully working and up to date tele
In this episode, I speak with the man in charge of Finland's YLE teletext service. He explains how he got into the industry, his battles with Nokia and the challenges for teletext in the future.Thanks to Dan Farrimond, who cleaned up this rec
I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with the extra terrestrial political force of nature that is his Excellency Count Binface. We discussed Ceefax, ZX Spectrum and less important subjects including Boris Johnson, Sadiq Khan & Teressa May.W
It's Max Headroom month! One November evening in 1987 local Chicago TV was invaded by a masked Max Headroom impersonator. For the following 37 years the question of who and why persist.Now well past a statute of limitations and the advantage h
Ricardo speaks to me about the CubanBoys ,teletext, Eurovision and the Poundshop boys. Being championed by Radio One DJ's Jo Wiley and John Peel catapulted Ricardo and his band mates into superstardom when they were spotted by EMI records. Ric
Joe Banks, producer of the art project Disinformation, has been working with Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio since the mid nineteen-nineties. His installations have been exhibited and performed worldwide and been shown on national TV & radio sta
Dan Farrimond and myself reflect on the Chunky Fringe live show, with Jamie Nemeth and Jason Robertson.The Audio was provided by Dan from his live stream that you can see with pictures on his YouTube channel.Thanks again to @grimfandango and
This is a live show hosted by myself and Dan Farrimond during Chunky Fringe, the teletext expo that took place at the same venue and day as the Digi Live 30 show held by Mr Biffo.We speak to Jason & Rich from What's wrong with Wolfie? Podcast
Stuart Ashen is a Actor, Screen writer, comedian and critic. He has near 1.6 million YouTube subscribers and 600 million views.I also got his name wrong in the intro, we discuss where it all started and the possible future trends as well as th
Dr Anderson has worked in AI for over a decade, she completed her Ph.D. in computed science and focused on machine learning and I was lucky to have a moment to speak to her about this remarkable technology.But what is AI? How is it transformin
Planet Sound was a cult music magazine that reached every teletext set n the UK, John Earls and his team championed many new acts of the 90s & 2000's including Artic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, Keane, Edito
Tim, better known to his thousands of followers as @ceefaux uses the distinct looks of old Ceefax tv listings to inject his brand of humour on to the social media world of twitter.His account is barley 15 months old but he has a amassed an avi
"We were the first people in the World to do this sort of thing..."Graham Norwood.Graham is a prolific travel writer and Formula One fan, but before all of this he cut his journalistic teeth at BBC Ceefax.Graham recalls the stories and eve
In this episode we enjoy the recollections of Patrick, @cgnfridays and Cody, @pranfunkels as they discus hacks and tricks to get free calls on phone systems like their hero, Matt Broderick and try not to get caught... with varying consequence
Dan Farrimond and myself discuss the evolution of techlores, originating from copiers to fax machine then to our beloved media of choice!But how many lores are there? Music from Mr Nissneness (as in Business) mrnissness.bandcamp.comWayne