It is amazing how much our attitude to watching TV has changed over the past half a century. Then again think of the way entertainment changed between 1875 and 1925. By 1875 Music Hall was the big thing. The working classes flocked to see and hear variety acts ranging from Little Tich to Marie Lloyd.Continue reading “Turn on your tv and switch off your mind as you binge watch”
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We’re baby boomers ‘cos our parents went to war
Nowadays they talk about baby booms as occurring nine months after a specific incident – such as a national blackout – but the baby boomer generation refers to those born after the end of the Second World War. In the US they give it a 20-year span with the first boomers born in 1946, basedContinue reading “We’re baby boomers ‘cos our parents went to war”
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