"Discovering English Churches" with Donald Sinden was a lovely series and I'm so disappointed that it's never been released on DVD or made available on iplayer.
Just over a month before BBC1 changed the look of the mirror globe adopting the double lined BBC1 typeface & changing the colours of the islands from yellow to light green.
The kind of Sunday evening line-up when school homework actually looked preferable. Not that there would've been any as it was the summer holidays. And I was too young for school homework in 1981... but you catch my drift.
I was 13 and transferring from a secondary modern to a grammar school( we still had these in Cumbria until 1984 when the last three grrammars went comprehensive). Actually the system was weird: everyone had to do 2 years in a secondary modern before being assessed by a head of house whether they should go to the grammar school or spend another 3 years doing CSEs in the secondary modern. There was no formal exam like the 11 plus and quite often pushy middle class parents would insist their offspring would attend the grammar school even if they weren't very academic. This meant the grammar school was watered down and I was in a class with 3 lads who had absolutely no interest in subjects like German and English Liit.
I wish the UK felt more early 1980s-ish.
Yes, and I was eleven. Having just left junior school, I would have been about to start senior school the following month!
@@angelacooper2661 I wasn’t born yet, not until 2001.
"Discovering English Churches" with Donald Sinden was a lovely series and I'm so disappointed that it's never been released on DVD or made available on iplayer.
Or maybe the entirety of the programme got wiped out and so they couldn't able to release it on DVD and iPlayer
That's an unusually late scheduled closedown for a Sunday night in that era.
Just over a month before BBC1 changed the look of the mirror globe adopting the double lined BBC1 typeface & changing the colours of the islands from yellow to light green.
The kind of Sunday evening line-up when school homework actually looked preferable. Not that there would've been any as it was the summer holidays. And I was too young for school homework in 1981... but you catch my drift.
To paraphrase Stuart Millard, 'I don't think I dreaded Sunday because it was nearly time for school, it was actually because That's Life was on'
I would have been eleven back then and on holiday, going from junior to senior school!
I was 13 and transferring from a secondary modern to a grammar school( we still had these in Cumbria until 1984 when the last three grrammars went comprehensive). Actually the system was weird: everyone had to do 2 years in a secondary modern before being assessed by a head of house whether they should go to the grammar school or spend another 3 years doing CSEs in the secondary modern. There was no formal exam like the 11 plus and quite often pushy middle class parents would insist their offspring would attend the grammar school even if they weren't very academic. This meant the grammar school was watered down and I was in a class with 3 lads who had absolutely no interest in subjects like German and English Liit.
43 years ago.
And some say TV was better back in the day!
I think it's more that it was Sunday in this case. Never the best day for TV.
And they always stuck the cricket on at "stupid o'clock."
Announcer Richard Straker