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Category: Cultural Review

The Pogles: Banned by the BBC?

Post author By Mark
Post date July 13, 2023
2 Comments on The Pogles: Banned by the BBC?

Did the BBC ban the children’s television programme The Pogles and if so why? In this nostalgic post I reflect on what happened, or at least what I think happened.

Tags Banned by the BBC, Children's Television, Oliver Postgate, Peter Firmin, Pogles' Wood, Small Films, The Dragons' Friendly Society, The Pogles

Cultural Review

Exploring Nature and Psychedelic Consciousness at Breaking Convention 2023

Post author By Mark
Post date April 27, 2023

A verdant reflection on participating in Breaking Convention 2023 at Exeter University and exploring magical worlds within nature.

Tags @breakingcon, breaking convention 2023, BreakingConvention, MindandMetaphysics, psychedelic consciousness, PsychedelicSemantics

Cultural Review

Teenage Engineering PO for Pixel: Silver Birch Sampled

Post author By Mark
Post date February 12, 2023

Embryonic work using videos of trees to create new sounds and new images using the PO for Pixel.

Tags PO for Pixel, Pocket Operator for Pixel, Sampling, Teenage Engineering, Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator

Cultural Review

Book Review – Forward Arsenal! By Bernard Joy (1952)

Post author By Mark
Post date January 24, 2023
1 Comment on Book Review – Forward Arsenal! By Bernard Joy (1952)

Christmas 1952, my Dad read Forward Arsenal!, seventy years later, it’s Christmas 2022 and I am reading my Dad’s copy of Forward Arsenal! This is my review.

Tags Armoury Square, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Football Club, Arsenal History, Bernard Joy, Forward Arsenal!, Herbert Chapman, Herbie Roberts, Is he Arsenal?, Oswestry, Tom Whittaker