Episodes
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
teletext People - Ian Westbrook BBC Ceefax
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Sunday Nov 06, 2022
Ian shares with us stories of how he became the last editor of Ceefax before is merger with the BBC web based service.
Sport was one of the most popular services on Ceefax and there are a few tales of sackings of Football managers and match winners that would not of occurred had it not been for Ceefax.
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music= William Rosati - Floating Also ♫ NO COPYRIGHT 8-bit Music
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
teletext People - Steve Rosenberg BBC News
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Russia 1991, the Soviet Union is collapsing, A chance meeting with engineers at a Moscow TV tower results in Steve becoming in charge Russia's first teletext services.
Steve explains his love for the medium and shares his recollections of running a teletext system during volatile times of the Eastern Bloc.
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Sunday Oct 23, 2022
teletext People - Mort Smith Ceefax & Intelfax
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
In the early 1970s Mort was the first BBC news Sub Editor to work on the new service called CEEFAX. He moved to the USA to start Chicago's Keyfax and then later returned to Blighty to run C4's upstart service 4TEL
I was privileged to speak with Mort and Julie to record their experiences working at all these teletext services.
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music= William Rosati - Floating Also ♫ NO COPYRIGHT 8-bit Music
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
My first Arcade Game - Depthcharge By Gremlin
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Sunspot Stories is the series where I recall the people, history & machines of my favourite arcade. This Episode I revisit Gremlin's Depthcharge and look into its gameplay.
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Byte High No Limit - Mark Parker - The Bearded Ladies
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
In this episode I catch up with my childhood friend Mark Parker. Mark played the machines in the Sunspot and when leaving school, embarked on an interesting career in the video games industry for Eidos & I.O. interactive. He is now Producer, Writer and Partner at The Bearded Ladies who are responsible for the highly rated Mutant Year Zero and The much anticipated Myasma Chronicles. Mark talks to me about the older systems, playtesting and of course the Sunspot Arcade!
Monday Sep 12, 2022
The Sunspot Arcade - Who built the tower?
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
What does a demolished amusement arcade in Jaywick, A Grade two building in Harrow and W.H. Smith have in common?
I speak to Professor Bruce Peter of the Glasgow School of Art to find out about the man who designed the most awesome building of my childhood.
Byte High No Limit
A pod series that covers the history of my favourite childhood arcade, the origin, the people and the machines.
Also the future of the site now the Arcade is gone.
Also the Teletext people series, where we speak to the people who made the UK's first TV info system work and others who now keep it's historic legacy going.
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