Going for a Song

Welcome back to the podcast celebrating growing up as a child in 1970's Britain and the central part that television played in our lives then. In this episode, our host Oliver wonders whether our society is more materialistic than in the 1970's and uses television schedules to compare and contrast. From Homes Under the Hammer, Cash in the Attic and Flog It! it appears that the schedules are full of programmes about turning a fast profit, even the supposedly superior Antiques Roadshow depends ...