Tuesday, 11 August 2026
Five bits a day — one for the morning, one for the world, one for the football, one for the telly and one for the celebs.
- 🕰 Morning NostalgiaThe sweets you could buy with the change in your pocketSpangles, Anglo Bubbly and the paper bag that went see-through in your hand.
- 🕰 Morning NostalgiaThings from the Sears catalogue you begged your parents forThin pages, dog-eared corners, and a wishlist that could bankrupt Santa.
- 🌍 Midday WorldThe news events where you remember exactly where you were standingSome news you hear. Some news you remember the wallpaper.
- 🌍 Midday WorldNews anchors you trusted more than your own familyWhen Walter Cronkite said that was the way it was, nobody argued.
- ⚽ Afternoon FootballWhen every game kicked off at three o’clock on a SaturdayOne kick-off time, no live coverage, and a bloke on the radio reading out the classified results.
- ⚽ Afternoon FootballSuper Bowls where everyone in America watched the same thingOne game, one channel, and the entire country glued to the same screen.
- 🎬 Evening Films & TVThe programmes you weren’t allowed to stay up forSent to bed at nine, then listening to the theme tune through the floorboards.
- 🎬 Evening Films & TVSaturday morning cartoons, cereal, and absolutely no adult supervisionThree hours of cartoons, a mixing bowl of cereal, and parents who slept in.
- ⭐ Night CelebsWhen twenty million people watched the same thing at the same timeThree channels, one telly, and the whole street talking about the same programme in the morning.
- ⭐ Night CelebsElvis left the building and nothing was quite the sameAugust 16, 1977. The King died and America lost something it never got back.