Join me and The Quality Seven™ for a massive wedge of documentaries and fun nuts.
16:00 – Library music mix
\ Heavyweight French production grooves plus a pre-millenium drive – in Ipswich!
16:30 – Henry’s Cat
\ Switched-on cartoon comedy from Bob Godfrey.
16:45 – Database
\ I don’t remember ITV making a magazine show about microcomputers but here’s the bleeping proof.
17:15 – Talk About
\ Andrew O’Connor thrusts himself into another game show format.
17:40 – Down Your Ear (Radio 4)
\ Satisfying precision daftness as Armando Iannucci probes the world of sounds and radio.
17:50 – Gentlemen Of Letters
\ Short modern documentary about sign painters in Dublin.
18:10 – Four Corners – TikTok
\ Australian TV documentary about the distorted, censorious and covert machinations of the kiddies’ social media platform.
18:55 – The Chrysler Building
\ Short BBC documentary segment about NY’s shiny prong of the industrial-capitalist age, panegyrised by John Malkovich.
19:05 – Wannacry – The Marcus Hutchins Story
\ Documentary on the 2017 ransomware attacks that crippled computer systems across the world, including many NHS systems.
19:35 – Evidently John Cooper Clarke
\ A celebratory retrospective of the tall thin Mancunian performance poet.
20:35 – The Thick Of It
\ The Department of Social Affairs endures another political shitstorm.
21:05 – Musical interlude
\ Live scratch pyrotechnics from Mix Master Mike.
21:20 – FILM: Erase And Forget (2017)
\ A tangled and sometimes disturbing peer into the operations and investigations undertaken by Bo Gritz – Lieutenant Colonel, whistleblower and alleged inspiration for much of Hollywood’s military folklore.
22:55 – 500 Bus Stops
\ John Shuttleworth packs his Yamaha Portasound and heads out on the first leg of his world tour – to Bakewell Library.
23:25 – Music mix
\ A groovy and slightly twisted late-night mix from Osymyso.
00:20 – Closedown
Bonus nonsense bollockry throughout. Thanks to Damo for shuffling OTH II to Wednesday to accommodate.