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Chris @sofacat72.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did you notice actress/singer Kate Robbins in the concert sequence in the ‘James Paul McCartney ‘ tv show?

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Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fellow 70s (and 60s and 80s) kids should all listen to this episode of @squarewindowpod.bsky.social in which @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social talk to Playschool’s creator Joy Whitby. It’s brilliant. squarewindow.co.uk/podcast/epis...

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Giles Brown @polkapiquee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Excellent relevant podcast ... bsky.app/profile/squa...

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All the talk about reviving Playschool, you ought to listen to this… Our recent chat with the woman who created it back in 1964, the amazing Pioneering Joy Whitby.

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our first-ever Patreon-only episode is now available, in which @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social discuss the rise and fall of The Big Breakfast. Sign up to listen to it at www.patreon.com/squarewindow...

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J (he/him) @jaycookie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great episode. When I was at uni we went to a recording of Blockbusters. We didn't get to meet Bob but we did get to wander about on the set. He had a stash of mint imperials in a little glass bowl on his podium. Took one, kept it like some kind of holy relic for ages. Sadly lost now.

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Tamara Bumpdeeay @moiness.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I auditioned for Blockbusters when I was in upper sixth. Me and a couple of others were taken up to the production office in Birmingham by a teacher early one Sunday. We got interviewed together and got asked triv questions. I got all mine right! But they went with the pretty daft lad instead.

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David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thank you for the lovely shout-out. Can’t believe you’ve now been doing this a year. What a gold run of episodes. #Blockbusters #HotSpot

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Chris Shaw @chrisshaweditor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Would love to see Blockbusters hosted by kindly auntie Samira!

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Through the Square Window is growing! From this month, we're launching an additional Patreon-only episode and newsletter. More details in the podcast. And find us on Patreon at... www.patreon.com/squarewindow...

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Brand-new episode alert! And this one contains what @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social calls "my favourite thing ever - EVER - on television". Find out what that is as she and @gkw.bsky.social watch shows from September 1992. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Plus, we have news! See first reply...

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We've got a new episode out on Wednesday, in which @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social watch four shows from 1992. Namely...

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We've got a new episode out on Wednesday, in which @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social watch four shows from 1992. Namely...

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Trevor Smith @trevor29.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As a child of the 1960’s I loved the latest @squarewindowpod.bsky.social podcast and the interview with Joy Whitby who was involved with Watch With Mother and Play School. Happy memories.

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David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I can but hope to have that recall and eloquence should I reach Joy Whitby's age. It's so important to recognise the achievements of such TV pioneers. So thanks to the two of you for doing just that. Listening was both a touching and life-affirming experience.

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We're recording our next episode on Monday, so if you have something you want to say about our recent Joy Whitby interview (or anything from our recent eps), do reply below, and @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social or @gkw.bsky.social will likely read out your remarks.

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Darren Leathley @dmleathley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is an absolute delight.

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Stuart @ztubert.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Joy should have an OBE at least. Although I would argue that a Damehood would be more appropriate. Jackanory sparked a lifelong passion for books for myself and countless others.

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Mr Scarymole @scarymole.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'd never heard of her before listening to this episode of your podcast. What a lovely and interesting person she is... a literal joy to listen to

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Here's a house. Here's a door!” 🙂 Pretty sure my earliest TV memory was Play School, but I didn’t know it was actually two years older than me! This was such an enjoyable listen, & a reminder of familiar faces & voices from my childhood, some of whom are no longer with us. Joy Whitby is, though!

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Our new episode is out today! @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social sit down with Joy Whitby, creator of Play School and Jackanory, and the woman who brought us Catzweazle and The Book Tower, among many other children's TV shows. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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Chris Shaw @chrisshaweditor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Brilliant stuff, thank you! #TeamRoundWindow

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is absorbing listening.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Time to go Through The Square Window with the woman who wrote the line..

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you are good children and go to bed early tonight, guess what be waiting for you in the morning?

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A reminder that tomorrow's Through the Square Window features @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social in conversation with the wonderful Joy Whitby. Available wherever you get your podcasts!

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In other news, we're starting to beef up our YouTube channel, and there will be some video appearing there later in the year, so we'd be most grateful if you'd pay it a visit and even subscribe, please. www.youtube.com/@squarewindo...

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Today is Play School and Jackanory creator Joy Whitby's 96th birthday! She joins @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social in our next episode to talk through her 60-year career in children's TV.

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Darren Leathley @dmleathley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In light of today's sad news, I'm going to listen again to this with, alas, the last Goodie.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Such sad news about Bill Oddie, a Renaissance Man genius, but here's the lovely conversation we had about his amazing comedic musical contribution to The Goodies on Front Row back in 2018. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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Jonathan L. Howard @jonathanlhoward.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Cripes. Just had a very strange, emotional moment of recall. That image of the clock with the rotating pattern around it was one I'd consciously forgotten but was still lurking in my subconscious. It used to fascinate me when I was tiny. I'd forgotten all about it for all these years. Cripes.

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Scott K Andrews @scottkandrews.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

@squarewindowpod.bsky.social Great ep, thanks for the mention :-) Interestingly, BBC2 had tackled mental health before in another show that got completely memory holed - Maybury (1981). televisionheaven.co.uk/reviews/mayb...

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Dr. Edward Roebuck, a consultant at Maybury General Hospital, deals with numerous difficult cases in this ground-breaking drama that treated mental illness with humanity and grit, in the first British...

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feverwood.bsky.social @feverwood.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Once again I am joyed by your podcast that fills in a lot of details and exposes me to new shows that seem like I should watch. Thank you again.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Next Episode - most exciting yet!

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Gareth Bellamy @thebellow.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I attended a recording of Saturday Night Armistice in TVC. I remember the energy of the hosts bouncing around the studio cramming in as many surreal gags as poss, and being handed a plastic piece of meat when in-house cow-mad boyband Topside arrived. But also in awe of being in TV Centre.

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Chris Shaw @chrisshaweditor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is such an enjoyable, interesting and perfectly-hosted podcast by two of the best people. Yay! Highly recommended!

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Dr. K @kurleymcd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Loved Saturday/Friday Night Armistice back in the day. The absolute best episode (in the opionion of this Irish man) was the one addressing the orange order marches in the North. The opening, demanding to march into the women's toilets because it was a gents 200 years ago was genius.

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Our new podcast is out today, and this month, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social are looking at shows from 1996: The Friday Night Armistice, Carol Vorderman's Out of this World, Men Behaving Badly and Takin' Over the Asylum. Available wherever you get your podcasts!

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We have a new episode out tomorrow, with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social looking at shows that aired in 1996. Here's what's coming up...

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We have a new episode out tomorrow, with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social looking at shows that aired in 1996. Here's what's coming up...

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The latest @squarewindowpod.bsky.social was also great. I've always been fascinated by the programme James Paul McCartney and would love to know - as it was a contractual obligation - if ATV had much control over the content or if McCartney was given free rein? It's such an odd ragbag of material.

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I must just recommend @squarewindowpod.bsky.social for perfect heatwave listening - nostalgic and knowledgeable, and very nicely put together.

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our new podcast is out today, and this month, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social are with the Beatles, looking at four related TV shows: Around the Beatles (1964), James Paul McCartney (1973), The Music of Lennon & McCartney (1965) and Magical Mystery Tour (1967).

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Through the Square Window @squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Genuinely thrilled that the great Chris Shaw has listened to our ep. Thanks, Chris!

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