How We Used To Live (UK Educational Children's Show)

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This is a TV programme that just poppped into my head. A kind of period soap opera set at different points in the late 19th / early 20th century. We had to watch it at school, but I remember being fascinated by it and the storyline. IIRC there was a remarkably strong leftist bent to the show, with one plotpoint involving the formation of the Labour party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_We_Used_To_Live

Anyone else remember this?

cod latin (dog latin), Thursday, 9 July 2015 09:38 (nine years ago)

loved this, especially cos it used that bit of Lieutenant Kijé as its theme tune. also iirc there was a sweet Suez Crisis ep where some people made a guy looking like Nasser for the bonfire cos they were deluded tools of late imperialism

This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 July 2015 09:42 (nine years ago)

We never actually saw enough episodes in sequence to get a real sense of the storyline. I do remember that we'd watch it on a TV hooked up to a big clunky Philips video recorder that used those square VCR format tapes that looked really dated even in the early 80s.

passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Thursday, 9 July 2015 18:34 (nine years ago)


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