Today is Play School and Jackanory creator Joy Whitby's 96th birthday! She joins @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social in our next episode to talk through her 60-year career in children's TV.
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Varifocals, balding; the whole package. He/him.
Our new podcast is out today, and this month, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social are looking at shows from 1996: The Friday Night Armistice, Carol Vorderman's Out of this World, Men Behaving Badly and Takin' Over the Asylum. Available wherever you get your podcasts!
We have a new episode out tomorrow, with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social looking at shows that aired in 1996. Here's what's coming up...
This is a great listen. @gkw.bsky.social & @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social clearly having fun going through a selection of Beatles/related tv shows. I often picture an exasperated George trying to get his songs recorded watching The Music of Lennon and McCartney! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
EPISODE 11: The Beatles on TV
Podcast Episode · Through the Square Window · 10 June · 1hr 9min
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Our new podcast is out today, and this month, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social are with the Beatles, looking at four related TV shows: Around the Beatles (1964), James Paul McCartney (1973), The Music of Lennon & McCartney (1965) and Magical Mystery Tour (1967).
We're back tomorrow as @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social present a special Beatles-themed episode. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
This week, I spoke to Ken Barlow about missing episodes of Coronation Street. A piece on the “dry run” pilots of Corrie now up on the Telegraph site (£): www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2026/05/2... @telegraph.co.uk @gkw.bsky.social
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Farewell Michael Keating. I came to appreciate his Vila Restal in Blake's 7 thanks to talking to @gkw.bsky.social about it on @squarewindowpod.bsky.social sites.libsyn.com/592215/episo...
Our new episode is out today! @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social look at the following shows from May 1987: Moonlighting, Every Second Counts, The Ritz and Network 7. Huge thanks to @mrstevelevine.bsky.social for talking to us about the N7 theme tune.
We have a new podcast episode out on Wednesday, with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social, looking at shows from May 1987. Including...
Say,"Yes Paul!" Another look ahead at next Wednesday's episode, where @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social will be looking at shows from 1987. Available wherever you get your podcasts!
If your name's not down, you're not coming in (actually, you're all welcome). In next Wednesday's podcast, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social are looking at shows from May 1987, including John Godber's The Ritz.
There's a new episode of Through The Square Window out on Wednesday 13 May (available wherever you get your podcasts). @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social are looking at shows from 1987, including...
It's a seven-decade saga that charts the changing fortunes of the very long desk, co-starring ashtrays, telephones, banquettes, pulpits, piano lids and an over-enthusiastic electric fan. My history of BBC election studio furniture: nearertotheend.co.uk/2026/04/25/b...
BBC election studio furniture
Cliff Michelmore at his desk during the BBC’s 1970 general election coverage A live television broadcast that spends six to seven hours confined mostly to one studio, disappears for a short b…
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So @gkw.bsky.social and my @squarewindowpod.bluesky.social is Pick of the week in the tv mag of the Sun…
Call us needy, but if you're so inclined, please do let us know if you've listened to our interview with Graeme... and what you made of it.
Through the Square Window@squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur new episode is out today (link in the first reply) featuring @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social's epic interview with Graeme Garden. The conversation covers The Goodies, Star Turn, Twice a Fortnight, Bodymatters, The Adventure Game, Engelbert Humperdinck and much more!
And @gkw.bsky.social and I have got a bonus ep of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social to see you through the weekend. With the evil genius of The Goodies, Graham Garden... podfollow.com/through-the-...
Our new episode is out today (link in the first reply) featuring @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social's epic interview with Graeme Garden. The conversation covers The Goodies, Star Turn, Twice a Fortnight, Bodymatters, The Adventure Game, Engelbert Humperdinck and much more!
"They call him the Doctor". Been a while but I've collaborated with my brother @jackkibble-white.bsky.social on a new BF trailer.
Big Finish Insider@bigfinish.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Fifth Doctor's adventures in time and space continue: bgfn.sh/helter ⋆｡ﾟ🪐｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ The brand-new audio drama, Helter Skelter, is now available as a download to own and collector's edition CD box set.
Next Wednesday's Through the Square Window is @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social's epic interview with Graeme Garden. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
In January, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social visited the home of Graeme Garden to talk about his life in TV for next Wednesday's episode of Through the Square Window. Samira's written about the encounter for our website: squarewindow.co.uk/podcast/grae...
@feelinglistless.bsky.social in today's The Rest is Entertainment! Nice work.
In 2019, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social visited Barry Cryer at home to talk about his time working with Kenny Everett. And now you can hear that conversation on today's new episode of Through the Square Window: pod.fo/e/3bf3b0
Through the Square Window: EPISODE EIGHT: Barry Cryer
Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White present a special extra episode for March 2026. Our previous instalment looked at shows from March 1979, including Thames TV's The Kenny Everett Video Show. Wri...
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I feel I’ve been waiting all my life to be commissioned to write this feature about Space:1999 for today’s Telegraph.. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c7afbc1...
This Seventies TV show was Britain’s answer to Star Trek – until it wasn’t
At the time, Space: 1999 was the most expensive series ever made, but a US producer and pulpier plots saw it lose its way
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++ADDITIONAL EPISODE++ Just a reminder that, next Wednesday, we're releasing @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social's interview with Barry Cryer, recorded in 2019. This is Barry on the record about all things Kenny Everett. AND IT'S ALL IN THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE!
Joy is a powerhouse - loved meeting her. The conversation covers Play School and Jackanory (of course), but also her ITV years: Catweazle! Tom Baker on The Book Tower! Behind the Bike Sheds! And (slams on the caps) THE GIDDY GAME SHOW! Plus loads more. The podcast will be out later this year.
Samira Ahmed@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis weekend @gkw.bsky.social & I went through the square window with the woman who made it possible; Play School and Jackanory creator, Joy Whitby. Coming soon to @squarewindowpod.bsky.social
