BEN FINLAY selects the ten best shows from the golden age of factual TV. Continue reading
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A Lost World (pt 1)
BEN FINLAY remembers the golden age of factual TV. Continue reading
Top 10: Trad Jazz
BEN FINLAY puts on his corduroy trousers and sandals to take you through the best of British trad jazz. Continue reading
Let us now praise: Weird kids’ TV
From Bagpuss to The Owl Service, BEN FINLAY celebrates the odder corners of old-school kids’ TV. Continue reading
Nuts in May at 50
Fifty years on and Mike Leigh’s play still resonates, says BEN FINLAY. Continue reading
Top 10: Yuletide
BEN FINLAY has some music to set the festive mood. Continue reading
Let us now praise: BBC Four
BEN FINLAY celebrates the BBC that used to be. Continue reading
The (rest is) History, Man
BEN FINLAY celebrates 50 years of Malcom Bradbury’s satire of fashionable left politics. Continue reading
Top 10: 1975
BEN FINLAY selects the best British albums of 1975. Expect the unexpected. Continue reading
Top 10: Prog rock
Fancy time-signatures, album-length songs and mystical lyrics – BEN FINLAY takes us through the best of prog rock. Continue reading
Top 10: British folk-rock
BEN FINLAY guides you through the best of British folk rock, from Nick Drake and the Fairports to Comus. Continue reading
Top 10: British blues
BEN FINLAY is your guide to the best of the 1960s British blues boom. Continue reading
