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Friday, 25 November 2022

1976: Meet the COMMUTERS | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive

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Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Fourth Doctor rediscovering TARDIS second control room

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Genesis of the Daleks | Doctor Who (1975)

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Sunday, 20 November 2022

That's Life! Christmas special: BBC, December 1974

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Friday, 18 November 2022

1975: Kids Choose TRAIN SPOTTING | Nationwide | Voice of the People | BB...

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Tuesday, 15 November 2022

1972: How to commit COMPUTER FRAUD - 70s style | Tomorrow’s World |Retro...

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1979: Will WORD PROCESSORS start a HOME WORKING revolution? | Past Predi...

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Saturday, 12 November 2022

One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) | RetroFocus

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Wednesday, 9 November 2022

The Dudley Moore Trio - Bedazzled (1971)

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Monday, 7 November 2022

1977: Charles M. Schulz on CHARLIE BROWN | Everyman | Classic Interviews...

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Saturday, 5 November 2022

Jean-Luc Godard interview + audience Q&A with Jean-Pierre Gorin (1972)

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Interesting incidents

  • The 1973 oil crisis

Some readings

  • Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich (1970)
  • Four arguments for the elimination of television by Jerry Mander (1978)
  • Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (1970)
  • Gyn/Ecology: the metaethics of radical feminism by Mary Daly (1978)
  • Human Rights and American Foreign Policy by Noam Chomsky (1978)
  • Person/Planet: the creative disintegration of industrial society by Theodore Roszak (1978)
  • Post Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (1971)
  • Reyner Banham: Historian of the immediate future
  • Small is Beautiful by E.F.Schumacher (1973)
  • The Money Game by Adam Smith (1976 ed.)
  • The Postmodern Condition: a report on knowledge (1979)
  • Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich (1973)

Key films to watch

  • The Taking of Pelham 123 (Joseph Sargent, 1974)
  • The Ice Storm (Ang Lee 1997)
  • The Anderson Tapes (Sidney Lumet, 1971)
  • The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
  • Don't Look Now (Nic Roeg, 1973)
  • Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
  • Sweeney! (1976)
  • Jubilee (Derek Jarman (1977)
  • Frost - Nixon Interview, 1977
  • Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) (Slow Motion) (Jean Luc Godard, 1980)

Key zeitgeist indicators

  • '70s movie rewind
  • 1970s Project
  • Desert Deathstar and the little Japanese radio
  • Desolation Row: deserted housing pods in Taiwan
  • French Letraset catalogue from 1977
  • Hotel California: LA from the Byrds to the Eagles
  • Just look at this list of childhood obsessions to see what I mean
  • Life on Mars
  • Michael Palin's diaries
  • Royksopp - Remind Me - Video
  • Semi-Detached by Griff Rhys Jones
  • Shut It! The music of The Sweeney
  • That 70s Show
  • The BBC Test Card Club

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