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the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire television, where there was one in the living room. i want to watch an all-black show for a change. oh, where are you going to find one? here s one the los angeles lakers against the milwaukee bucks. young people were interested in relevant things. and so television began to reflect that. this is cbs. really it was very simple. you had three channels plus pbs. when the decade turned over into the 70s, television was very rural. hee haw! the beverly hillbillies. cbs had the beverly hillbillies. green ....
now, many of us remember the tv drama grange hill for its gritty storylines and very catchy theme tune. it first aired in 1978, running for 30 years, and now it is going to be turned into film with some of the original characters expected to return as grandparents. jayne mccubbin has been chatting to some of the original cast members. grange hill theme music plays. there was the theme tune. bom bom bom bom, ba na ba na nah nah, bam ba na ba na na, bow bow bow. there was the gritty realism. move your arm, fat man. it was just like a real british show, wasn t it? showing, like, kids in their natural habitats, so to speak. yeah, cheeky and naughty. what s he talking about? it s not true. controversial storylines. did you just say no in school? idid. good girl. just say no! now, like an unheard of decent school dinner, there is going to be a second helping. my name is neil mattocks. i am a higher level teaching assistant. i run a podcast about grange hill called sausage on ....
morning. they will transfer into northern england and north wales and the second half of the day. but for many it will stay dry and sunny. mandy, some weatherfronts but for many it will stay dry and sunny. mandy, some weather fronts on the charts, nowhere near as active. on monday. south will stay largely dry. temperatures starting to creep up, back to double figures across some southern and western areas. later in the week, some showers in england and wales. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: tennis star novak djokovic had a vaccine exemption to enter australia because he had covid in december, according to court documents. the us questions kazakhstan s decision. flat owners in the uk won t have to pay to remove dangerous cladding from lower height buildings under new government plans, the bbc understands. three white men who murdered ahmaud arbery in the us state of georgia are given life sentences his family say they never lost faith in justice. now on bbc ....
labour says the prime minister still has serious questions to answer over the refurbishment of his downing street flat. england battle back on the third day of the fourth ashes test asjonny bairstow hits an unbeaten century in sydney. a letter has made its way to a care worker in northern ireland without having his actual address on it itjust contained his life story instead. we ll hear more from the letter s recipient. hello and welcome to bbc news. new figures reveal a sharp leap in covid related absences in the nhs in england. according to the latest data, on average over 35,000 staff at acute nhs trusts in england were off due to covid during the week ending two january. this is an increase of al% on the previous week, but some regional authorities showed much higher absences than the national average. north west england reported an 85% week on week increase in absences in the last few minutes it has been announced the army will help the ambulance service in the ....
what is the two-year anniversary gift? why surely get each other? beer, that sounds good, beer works. joe anne marie and i have been traveling around to different or reason wineries and other establishments throughout the area telling stories of local history the the wild than usual the interesting, stories that slippeduat through the cracks wn it comes to talking about our local history. ltonight is kind of a special program because we are here at and historic site not to bury. my name is joseph rizzo i m the executive dr. of the t lowdn museum and it s always i m joined by travis shaw who is the director of education and the best dresser of the group. and the c-span crew complimented him on his shirt and his hair on his way in. the crew is one person. that is accurate. that is accurate. it wasn t the crew, it was one person. that is accurate. there ll be 150 people by the time the story is over and i m joined by anne marie chrieleisone the executive director o ....