This week on Scarred for Life, it’s another good old-fashioned mailbag episode, as Andy Bush, Dave Lawrence and producer Nikki Druce dive into your childhood nightmares, forgotten television horrors and the pop-culture memories that have stayed with you for decades.
From terrifying children’s books and creepy cartoon characters to disturbing 1970s and 80s television, we’re revisiting the things that scared us silly when we were growing up. We discuss everything from Bedtime for Frances and The Warlock of Firetop Mountain to Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog and the rather unsettling world of anthropomorphic animals.
We also investigate some of your mystery memories, including a terrifying underwater car scene, a mysterious witch appearing at a country-house window and a forgotten collection of supposedly improving Christian children’s stories. Can our listeners help identify these long-lost television programmes and books? Plus, Nikki has some fascinating behind-the-scenes facts about Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, we discuss childhood fears of rabies and quicksand, and there’s some very exciting news to share…
Scarred for Life has officially been inducted into the British Library’s Sound and Moving Image collection!
It’s a celebration of childhood nostalgia, forgotten pop culture, collective memories and the things that have stayed with us long after the television was switched off. Sleep well.
Do have nightmares!
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