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A prelude to Jon Dear’s much anticipated Headpress book, No Diggin’ Here, on the history of the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas.
JOHN SINCLAIR passed away recently, activist, poet, manager of MC5, and immortalised in a song by John Lennon. DAVID KEREKES remembers buying lunch together.
In anticipation of his upcoming book, PURE: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers, Jared Stearns tells us what led him to write about this icon of the 1970s.
King Penda and composer Edward Elgar visit a teenage boy in this archive BBC production that made little sense to director Alan Clarke.
In these extracts from his forthcoming Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers, Jared Stearns details how the star landed her two most important roles.
Helloa! Below there! A look at The Signalman, part of the BBC’s festive A Ghost Story For Christmas thread, originally aired in 1976.
From Joy Division to “Gordon is a moron”, Graham Fellows talks in the vernacular about his broken-hearted punk rock incarnation, Jilted John.
The creepy, supernatural themed Misty comic first appeared on British newsagents’ shelves in early 1978. Jennifer Wallis reviews and reminisces.
Modern Britain by way of monsters, hauntology, and darker legends. DAVID KEREKES investigates The Horror Show! exhibition.
Traditional folk music with a peppermint flavour. David Kerekes reviews Deep In The Woods: pastoral psychedelia & funk folk 1968-1975.
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton
