Through the Square Window

HELLLLOOO!!!
And a Happy New Year. This month, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White are looking at programmes that greeted the New Millennium in January 2000. And they are...
05:07 - Blue Peter's first edition of the year, in which they unearth the time capsule buried on the show back in 1971.
15:33 - The Coronation Street hour-long New Year's Day special, revealing how the residents of Weatherfield rang in 2000.
29:28 - The very first episode of Dom Joly's Trigger Happy TV.
41:35 - The BBC's grand, ill-fated "social" experiment, Castaway 2000.
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This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

And so this is Christmas...
In their first-ever feature-length festive spectacular, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White are joined by special guest Mark Gatiss, as all three nominate their favourite and least-favourite Christmas specials. They are...
6:58 - Samira's least-favourite: The Star Wars Holiday Special
13:31 - Samira's favourite: The Goodies: 'Earthanasia'
26: 38 - Graham's least-favourite: Russell Harty Goes... Upstairs, Downstairs
35:36 - Graham's favourite: Minder on the Orient Express
51:52 - Mark Gatiss joins us to talk about his A Ghost Story for Christmas for 2025, The Room in the Tower, which airs on BBC2 on Christmas Eve. And then...
55:57 - Mark's least-favourite: The 'wrong' film at Christmas
1:01:11 - Mark's favourite: The Ghosts of Motley Hall: 'The Christmas Spirit'
Plus, listeners' emails, and a salute to the magic of Woolworth's Christmas adverts. And you can find Steve Berry's Woolies YouTube playlist here.
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This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

Eyes down for episode three of Through the Square Window!
In this instalment, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White investigate a selection of UK TV programmes that were airing 41 years ago, in November 1984: A blistering edition of BBC1 game show Bob's Full House; Ray Davies' Channel 4 TV film Return to Waterloo; we compare and contrast two female-led police dramas, both screening on Saturday nights, Juliet Bravo and The Gentle Touch; and we're joined by TV director, producer and former Blue Peter editor Richard Marson to discuss the final ever episode of Rentaghost.
Richard's book, Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children's Television: 1967-1997 is published on November 17 by Ten Acre Books.
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This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning

Welcome, stranger, to episode two of Through the Square Window!
In this instalment, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White investigate a selection of UK TV shows that were airing 35 years ago, in October 1990: The TV pilot of cult topical comedy The Mary Whitehouse Experience; an episode on BBC One's teatime consumer affairs programme Watchdog; Anglia Television's sword and sorcery game show for children, Knightmare; and the first ever episode of Twin Peaks.
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Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk
This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

In their first-ever episode, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White investigate a selection of UK TV shows that were also launching this month, albeit 50 years ago: The BBC1 hospital drama, Angels; Thames Television's spooky anthology series for children, Shadows (plus a look at BBC2's similarly occult-themed Leap in the Dark); BBC2 comedies Fawlty Towers and The Growing Pains Of PC Penrose; Samira's favourite, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Space:1999; and Graham's favourite, Yorkshire Television's glam rock-infused Animal Kwackers.
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This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.