"Auntie Knows Best"

I recently stumbled over a blog posting made by CMP lecturer and one half of the Shuffle boys, Adam Hodgkins speaking about his disgust of the BBC and their treatment of experimental and specialist output made even more notable by the axing of Mixing It on BBC Radio 3.
The comments made on the BBC's current radio output are spot on, but even more relevant is the fact that the BBC rely heavilly on their archive of material from the last 30 years, and how the material they are producing now won't be regarded as fondly in years to come.

Whilst Adam's post covers experimental music, the same issues are just as relevant to other areas of the corporations output.
This came to mind over Christmas when they broadcast the Swap Shop programme celebrating 30 years on Saturday morning television and how shows such as "The Saturday Show" and TMi won't be as well remembered as Swap Shop and Going Live!

On a similar subject I stumbled across this clip of Going Live! from 1990 where Cliff Richard lends his hand into helping out with the prize picks which until the introduction of e-mail and texting was an integral part of that show and in Live And Kicking in it's early days. It was certainly the era when bobs were in fashion as shown by Emma Forbes and Sarah Greene in the above clip and I demand that hairstyle to be brought back into fashion!