All In The Best Possible Taste

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Television past as LP Hartley might have once said is another country. & in the early 1980s it certainly was a different beast. There were still only three channels to watch; the evenings programmes finished with the playing of the national anthem; & the biggest prize on TV was not Chris Tarrants million pounds but a speedboat on Bullseye.. . But as Tom Bromley suggests in this funny & warming memoir all that was about to change: The 1980s saw the end of the original golden era of television & the beginnings of TV as we know it today. In 1982 Channel 4 became the first new terrestrial channel for almost twenty years & by the end of the decade Rupert Murdochs Sky Television was vying to become Britains first multi-channel provider. The result of all this was that slowly but surely British viewers had more choice than ever before & the cost of this choice was the erosion of television as a shared national event. & no-one felt this change more deeply than Tom Bromley. Television played a large part in Toms childhood. His first word was two as in BBC Two & his earliest childhood memory is seeing Johnny Ball at a church fete. With great humour & affection Tom Bromley tells the story of a childhood spent with his three siblings & that other all-important family member; the television set.