Are you old enough to remember the 1970s? Are you familiar with the county and equestrian show circuit? Maybe you can help me identify where, and possibly when these pieces of footage were filmed.
Tag: Show
That Time I Stood Up The Princess Royal
The most common, clichéd way to describe this whole nightmarish episode would be to say it was 'surreal' but technically, surrealism is generally light and frivolous in tone. This was a much darker level of mind-bending. More Hieronymus Bosch than Salvador Dalí. We couldn't even bring ourselves to watch it on television. Anything with horses involved was far too painful.
That Time I Worked Out ‘Cupid Stunt’
I remember liking things that I knew were popular before Kenny Everett but I think it’s fair to say that his show was among the first things I liked because I knew it was ‘cool’. I also can’t think of anything before Ken that I loved specifically because it was subversive. You knew it often skated along the ragged edge of what humour could get away with - which made it all the more appealing.
That Time I Presented The Prizes At HOYS
20 years ago: NEC Arena, Birmingham, UK – 11th October 2002For two years, we were the main sponsor of the Prince Phillip Cup, the most prestigious competition in the sport of Mounted Games, with the final held at the Horse of the Year Show at the NEC in Birmingham. Helen and I were asked to …
That Time I Saw The Match In A Caravan
40 years ago | Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, UK | 11th July 1982This was my view of the 1982 World Cup Final, from a grainy black-and-white portable TV in a caravan on a showground in Harrogate. I was there (aged eight) as we exhibited at the Great Yorkshire Show. I don’t remember much about the …
Archived: Ringo Starr, Man of the People Or What?
Originally published as a FB Note, on 20 May 2008 at 22:09 So, it's Friday night, Johnathan Ross is back on and his big guest is one time skin-beater Richard Starkey. As you'd expect, he's got an album out so it's hardly like he's on there because he wants to be anyway and boy did it …
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