... and twenty-eight years ago Shoestring was only on VHS ...

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I don't have many Radio Times clippings but I do have a couple of interesting ones. Although, it has to be said, not in the best conditon.

Artemis 81 was a baffling film from, well er..., 1981. Baffling to the sixteen year old watching it at the time at any rate. However, I still kept the clipping.

I haven't seen this film since it was first aired but I do have it on VHS conversion. I must dig it out one of these days to see if this same sixteen year old, who is now forty-six, can make head or tail of it.

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This is one of the first handful of audio-tape to CD-R conversions that I did. Made on my very first PC: a Hewlitt-Packard Club 77 with 64mb of Ram, a 10GB hard-drive and Windows 98SE.

It isn't that bad for its day. I had got to know the recording program's settings, having done a rather poor tape conversion of Toyah's 'Sheep Farming In Barnet'.

However, there appears to have been a problem with the tape itself - I think I found it in a boot fair - as there is a noticeable tape noise throughout the last three tracks.

This is still brought out from time to time for the Quatermass theme, although I no longer have the tape that I converted this from.

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I was given one of the new 2012 Olymipic coins this week and at a quick glance the picture, on the coin, resembles a Dalek.

Yes, I know it's a shuttlecock, but at a quick glance...

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In 1993 I wrote to the BBC about the reported cancellation of a thirtieth anniversay special - The Dark Dimensions - for Doctor Who. They wrote a nice letter back to me but the franking, on the envelope, was rather ironic.

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To this day, I can't believe that I found this BBC cassette tape in a charity shop in Dartford. I also can't believe that I have never managed to play it; something made more difficult now that I don't appear to have the facility to.

I'm very familiar with the track "The Astronauts" as this was on the B-side of the 7" to David Howell's version of the Doctor Who theme (circa 1980).

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The only Betamax tape that I have ever owned and, after being so used to VHS tapes, I find it quite cute.

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Above is one of my earliest cassette tape to CD-R recordings: Doctor Who's State Of Decay talking book (appears on the Television Archive On Other Formats page). If you look very closely you can even see that the make of CD-R that I used was Kodak. Very much from the early days as sticky labels never go anywhere near my CD-Rs and DVD-Rs now.

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After Channel 4's excellent Vampire series Ultraviolet (1998) finished, I wrote to Channel 4 to show my appreciation. They wrote back to drop a big hint that it wouldn't continue. And it never did.

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