BEN BAKER returns to talk about his book THE DREAMS WE HAD AS CHILDREN

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 7th 2024

Forty years ago this very week, after experimenting with the format through a strand called WATCH IT! during the previous three years or so, CHILDREN’S ITV was launched as an attempt at a coherent approach to children’s television output with linked presentations transmitted across the whole of the ITV network in the afternoon slot from 4:00pm to 5:15 on weekday afternoons.

And, to a lesser or greater extent, with an eventual switch to a designated Freeview Channel, the CITV brand managed to stagger on for nearly forty years until the plug was finally pulled in September last year, and Children’s programming was shifted to ITVX.

This fascinating era produced a whole wealth of fondly – and not so fondly -remembered programming of course, as Children do become very attached to their favourites, and, after far too long an absence from VISION ON SOUND which is all down to me sometimes being a little bit forgetful about these kinds of things, BEN BAKER is back this week to talk about the very personal book he has written THE DREAMS WE HAD AS CHILDREN which picks out his personal choice of the very best CITV had to offer between 1983 and its demise in 2023.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.