Tales Out of School

Tales Out of School was a series of four plays by David Leland which were screened on TV in the early eighties. The most famous was 'Made in Britain' with Tim Roth.
'Birth of a Nation' featured Jim Broadbent as a newly qualified teacher who is appalled at the level of corporal punishment being doled out at a comprehensive school.
The whole series has recently been released on DVD.

Gloy Glue

Screenshot from 'The Golden Vision'; a Wednesday Play from 1968, directed by Ken Loach, and written by Neville Smith and Gordon Honeycombe, the ITN newsreader.

Comicalamities etc

Children's Theatre

From a 1962 book by Otto Maurice Forkert titled 'Children's Theatre ....That Captures its Audience'

Faber Books

Here are lots more beautiful book covers from Faber books.

Arthur Lipsett

A few years ago I bought an album called 'Arthur Lipsett: Soundtracks' which is a collection of audio recordings from Lipsett's films, that were produced for the National Film Board of Canada.
I've not actually seen any of the films - apart from this one; the others are elusive....

People Like Us

I discovered People Like Us in the much missed Rough Trade shop in Covent Garden, and later online in Vicki's WFMU show DO OR DIY which is amazing and still available in archive form. 'Wide Open places' - a Western montage piece made with Wobbly and Matmos, is one of my favourite albums, and it was really great to see that the latest material on the PLU website does not disappoint...and just to balance things up, since Ergo Phizmiz is the co creator of this vidoe, here's the mix he made for 'illegal art' a while ago.

"Chess" by People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz from Vicki WFMU on Vimeo.