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Through the Square Window

Through the Square Window

By: Samira Ahmed
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A podcast guiding you through the UK television we watched in decades gone by, presented by cultural journalist Samira Ahmed and TV journalist Graham Kibble-White.2025 Art
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  • EPISODE EIGHT: Barry Cryer
    Mar 25 2026

    Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White present a special extra episode for March 2025.

    Our previous instalment looked at shows from March 1979, including Thames TV's The Kenny Everett Video Show. Writer, comedian and actor Barry Cryer, who passed away in 2022, was a key contributor to that series and in 2019, Samira visited Barry at his home to record an interview with him about the programme, intended to run in a future edition of TV Years magazine.

    That future edition never transpired, and so we're presenting their conversation for the very first time.

    If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on email@squarewindow.co.uk

    Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk

    This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

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    41 mins
  • EPISODE 7: March 1979
    Mar 11 2026

    This month Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White are looking at programmes from March 1979. And they are...

    05:39: The BBC's sci-fi saga Blake's 7, and an episode from its second series, 'Countdown'.

    24:09: An edition of the documentary series, Man Alive, following a mum, dad and three children through a series of family therapy sessions.

    40:23: Star Signs - the Michael Aspel hosted BBC2 panel show, based around astrology, graphology and other means of divining the future. With special guests Joanna Lumley and Peter Cook.

    54:58: Thames TV's The Kenny Everett Video Show, featuring The Average White Band, Kiki Dee and David Essex.

    01:12:05: Stay tuned for details about an additional episode coming later in March.

    If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on email@squarewindow.co.uk

    Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk

    This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • EPISODE 6: February 1969
    Feb 11 2026

    This month Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White are looking at programmes from February 1969. And they are...

    06:00: The pre-Python children's comedy, Do Not Adjust Your Set.

    18:39: Civilisation - the groundbreaking BBC2 documentary, hosted and written by Kenneth Clark.

    35:56: Saturday Night Theatre, and the play MacNeil, written by Alun Owen and starring Sean Connery.

    48:20: Spy thriller Department S, specifically the episode 'One of Our Aircraft is Empty'.

    If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on email@squarewindow.co.uk

    Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk

    This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
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