Byte High no Limit

In her glittering career, Sara Scott-Rivers worked extensively with both Viewdata and teletext. 

Following designer-editor roles with Prestel in the 1980s, she joined Teletext Ltd prior to its launch in 1993.

Sara was kind enough to share her recollections of working with the blocky mediums with me in this podcast series. 

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Byte High no Limit is a series about all aspects of Technological history and it's social connections.

Fans of the teletext series should not despair as there will be more interviews on the way, In the meantime here is an update of the channel and and item I recorded about WE ARE INSTAR, an art collective that are exhibiting in my childhood town of Jaywick in Essex.

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Paul Rose is a BAFTA nominated  writer for Children's TV and also writes for Mainstream Adult audience programming.

He is fondly remembered and held in high regard for his work on Teletext Ltd's Digitiser Magazine as Mr Biffo which he launched 30 years ago!

Paul very kindly spoke to me about his time at teletext, his motivations and what he is doing now.

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You can find out more about Paul here... http://www.paulrosewriter.com/

Probably one of the BBC computer's killer Apps, Elite started a series of games that continue today.

Acorn Nut Mark Moxon decided that this iconic game needed a port to the teletext medium and in this episode he explains his motivations an experiences of creating this wonderfully playable adaption.

You can play the game yourself here. https://www.bbcelite.com/hacks/teletext_elite.html 

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The Teletext revival is a shop window, but without the goods in the stock room nothing can happen.

Alistair's ZX Net Teletext editor and online Viewers have been the glue that enables artists, archivists and new services to make their concepts a reality.

We discuss how it all happened and what projects are on the go at the moment.

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Dan's interest in teletext art was a spring board for many other artists who have adopted this medium to express their artwork long after it's greatly exaggerated demise.

Part of the 'TeletextR' movement, he has been instrumental in the high profile that the blocky medium enjoys today in the media.   

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In this episode, we find out how Jason developed a way of restoring lost teletext from tape,  how he found long lost services and a curious Audio service that was hidden in plain sight from millions of UK television viewers.

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Ian Irving was one the medium's first ever recognised artist and is cited as a contemporary of many pixel artists who used the format.

Ian tells us his story of working at Ceefax then moving to Intelfax and 4-Tel. 

Ian also worked on a ground breaking project for deaf children 'Hands Up!' on Channel four was a completely unique programme that can be viewed on YouTube. 

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Graham worked at CEEFAX at the beginning of the 1990s and was given the opportunity to run a new teletext service for commercial TV just after the biggest shake up of television regulations in the UK at the time.

He explains how he manged to get the service going and make a success of it, then foresee the trouble coming down the pipe from non- broadcast competition and the attempts to adapt. 

today Graham is a media consultant and can be reached at www.lovelace.co.uk 

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Ian shares with us stories of how he became the last editor of Ceefax before is merger with the BBC web based service.

Sport was one of the most popular services on Ceefax and there are a few tales of sackings of Football managers and match winners that would not of occurred had it not been for Ceefax. 

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