Covid and cancel culture, I look back at my own childhood with a certain nostalgia.Take TV. OK, it wasn’t the on-demand, multi-channel affair it is now, but the popular shows were pivotal in family life.
We all watched them. Properly. Not while distracted by individual devices. They punctuated our week: Top of the Pops (Thursday); Starsky & Hutch (Saturday); and The Big Match (Sunday, ‘shhh, Dad’s watching Arsenal’).
Saturday also meant Sale of the Century with its signature intro: ‘And now, from Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week…’ Not Vegas, you understand.
Norwich. We never understood why the East Anglian city lent particular weight to the proceedings, but we went along with it anyway.We did have virtual reality of sorts.
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