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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Blast from the past

STORY! Jackanory Night, BBC4, from 9.00pm

Every so often in the life of LOWCULTURE, there comes a time when we find ourselves suggesting that our loyal readers tune into BBC4. We have no problem in doing so, but we always find it interesting when this happens because BBC4 usually tends towards the highbrow and serious side of events, which doesn't fit in with our perspective very much. Sometimes, however, it will bring its attention to something that we hold dear to our hearts, and there are few better examples than tonight, when the channel decides to do a Jackanory retrospective.

For the benefit of our readers who are too young to remember the programme (by the way: we hate you), Jackanory was a children's TV show of yesteryear which featured celebrities reading stories directly to the camera, and...well, that was pretty much it. Obviously in this modern, crazy, short attention span world it ended up getting the axe, but there's hope for a revival in the future - or at least there was when Alison Sharman was controller of CBBC; whether her predecessors decide to keep it on the agenda is yet to be revealed.

Our abiding memory of the show will always be Victoria Wood reading Roald Dahl's Matilda; the chill that went down our spine when one episode ended on the revelation that the evil Miss Trunchbull was Miss Honey's aunt is still a vivid memory even today. Sadly that one will not be getting a repeat airing tonight, but there is a slot on the schedule for Rik Mayall's equally ace reading of George's Marvellous Medicine if that's the sort of thing that tickles your fancy.

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