This Feels Like a Punishment
Greg James explores the 成人快手 Archives. This week: Sooty, vampires, Petula Clark, and John Noakes climbing lots of tall buildings.
Izzy wizzy Greg gets busy as this week's he's joined by a certain magician bear while searching through the 成人快手 Archives. He digs out an argument between Sooty creator Harry Corbett and the 成人快手 about whether Sooty should have a girlfriend. Did the little bear get his way?
As a new film version of Nosferatu hits cinemas, Greg goes vampire hunting. He tracks down some blood-sucking bats in the archive, and the various 成人快手 presenters who've been bitten - or wanted to be bitten - by them.
One of Greg's highlights of 2024 was climbing the O2 venue in London with singing superstar Billie Eilish. This inspires him to look for other 成人快手 presenters who've climbed tall buildings. Chief among them was John Noakes, Blue Peter's resident daredevil who, over the course of 12 years, climbed tens of thousands of feet, from Big Ben to Mount Etna, sometimes without a safety harness. Greg looks at some of Noakes's breathless climbing highlights.
And 60 years ago, Petula Clark's hit single Downtown went to number one in the States. She now has the longest career of any British entertainer ever, beginning when she was just nine years old during an air raid in London. Greg finds out more about Petula's extraordinary career, from that beginning to a seminal TV broadcast with Harry Belafonte, and the fact that she recorded Downtown in several different languages.
Producer: Tim Bano
An EcoAudio certified production.