Teletextr

In honour of All Fools' Day Version 20.20, we look back at some popular legends surrounding teletext in this myth-busting special. Separating fact from fiction, we offer our verdict on these folk teletext tales.

This episode was guest edited by Kyra.

Matti Ramo has been a journalist with Finland’s YLE Text for 19 years. Not only has he written and formatted thousands of articles and teletext pages, but has somehow found the time to be an internationally renowned travel writer. His bicycle journey through the Himalayas has been the subject of a documentary on the YLE television network.

TART2020 (Teletext Art 2020) is the latest teletext art festival to be organised by FixC, edited by Matti on behalf of collaborators YLE Text. Matti speaks about his contributions to the artform and the future of teletext in Finland.

Much like a washed-up 80s rock star who’s run out of cash to pay his TV license, the Teletextr Podcast has returned for a new decade of text ‘n’ bugs ‘n’ remote controls.

We begin 2020 with the sad news that the BBC would like to close their Red Button teletext service. Having received a stay of execution in January, will it survive beyond spring?

Recorded LIVE at Block Party Cambridge 2017! Prepare yourself for more good oranges and bad apples.

Apples, oranges and raspberries are the subject of this pre-Block Party babble.

Paul ‘Minitel’ Rose joins Carl (‘C-Man’) and Dan for some 18+ chat about explicit teletext art, controversial Ceefax news items, cross dressing gentlemen and enormous mice. This podcast is sponsored by Jacob’s Clock Crackers.

Teletextr goes all Top Gear circa 1998 with a nostalgia-heavy teletext-head edition. Vroom! What was teletext like in Canada? Hosts Dan and Carl invite Bruno St Gelais into the studio to chat about why Telidon was the most engaging thing on national television. What was teletext like in the UK? Hosts Dan and Carl invite Russty Russ over to Teletextr HQ for tea ‘n’ biscuits. And to talk about Ceefax, the death of Oracle and how Teletext Ltd ruled the (pixellated) world.

A musical mini podcast of out-takes from Teletextr 02. Marry Crestmas.

It’s the Teletextr Podcast: The World at Your Fingertips! Carl and Harry are back to discuss teletext at art galleries, physical and analogue, in 2015 for our Teletext Art Special. There’s also some juicy discussion on teletext porno, such as it is, teletext’s ongoing fight against the evil lizards and the world’s first teletext song… perhaps.

“But guys,” we hear you cry. “How on earth can you represent teletext, a naturally silent medium, in audio form?” Well, Carl and Dan weren’t quite sure at first but, thanks to an unnatural determination when it comes to telemetext, began fumbling blindly for ‘relevant’ topics. And do you know what? I don’t think they had any problems finding talking points… I’ll let you be the judge of that, however.