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WELCOME TO SP/TLIGHT, 4-Tel's mini-
magazine which brings you all the 0
latest stories on what's what and 0
who's who on Channel 4... 0
On the following pages you can find
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AT LAST IT'S HOGMANAY
A preview of Channel 4's unusual 0
way of bringing in the New Year 0
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GRANADA IN THE SIXTIES
A look at Monday evening's selection
of programmes made by Granada TV in
the 1960s 0
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Edited by Barbara Jefferson 0
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AT LAST IT'S HOGMANAY
Channel 4 sees the New Year in with
a bang at 11.20 tomorrow with At 0
Last It's Hogmanay.
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The 'Big Yin' himself, Billy 0
Connolly, hosts the show with his
usual anarchic hilarity and
flamboyant lack of good taste. 0
Alongside him will be his equally
funny compatriot, comic Robbie 0
Coltrane.
As Ollie and Wally McCauley, they
introduce the festivities from the
Shandy McHarg Memorial Hall. 0
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AT LAST IT'S HOGMANAY
The two tartan-clad anti-heroes have
just completed a successful Pualic 0
Library tour of the West of 0
Scotland, where they sold nearly 0
seven copies of their latest LP.
They'll be introducing the cream of
Scottish talent - topping the bill
are the transvestite protest singer
Fiona McDade and the eminent poet
Elphinstone MacCorquadale. 0
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But despite these more serious
moments, there is also plenty of
musical entertainment. 0
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AT LAST IT'S HOGMANAY
Some of Scotland's finest rock acts
will be singing in the New Year - 0
amongst them Midge Ure, The 0
Communards, Gallagher and Lyle,
Maggie Bell and Jim Diamond.
And Benny Gallagher has brought 0
together some of Britain's best 0
session musicians to suit the 0
contrasting styles of the artistes
appearing on the show. 0
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At Last It's Hogmanay is on Channel
4 on New Year's Eve, starting at 0
11.20pm. 0
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GRANADA IN THE SIXTIES 0
The oldest programme company in ITV
celebrates its 30th birthday in 0
1986. 0
Granada Television, the only one of
ITV's original 'Big Five' companies
still supplying the network today,
put out its first programmes from 0
Manchester in May 1956. 0
Tonight at 8.30pm, C4 has assembled
an evening of programmes which were
shown on Granada television during
the Sixties.
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GRANADA IN THE SIXTIES
Granada is best known outside its 0
northern region for Coronation 0
Street, now 25 years old.
Channel 4 will be showing five black
and white programmes from the 1960s
including World In Action, The
Caesars, and the Music of Lennon and
McCartney. 0
Once upon a time, everyone wanted to
record a Beatles song. This
quintessential 1965 show presents
some of the artists who did - picked
by Lennon and McCartney themselves.
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GRANADA IN THE SIXTIES
The artists include Lulu (I Saw Him
Standing There), Marianne Faithfull
(Yesterday) and Cilla Black with a 0
Beatle haircut.
But the highlight of the programme
is Peter Sellars' interpretation of
Sir Laurence Olivier as Richard The
Third declaiming "It's Been A Hard
Day's Night".
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Of course, the Beatles themselves 0
appear, singing their releases from
December 1965, Day Tripper, and We
Can Work It Out. 0
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GRANADA IN THE SIXTIES
At 9.20pm Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser
star as Bootsie And Snudge in 0
The Bachelor Party.
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In this episode, Lord Possett (Bill
Rayner) wants to throw a stag party
for his friends. It is midnight and
Bootsie and Snudge are more than 0
ready for bed... 0
Snudge brightens when he thinks of
the tips he might get and opens up
the bar while Bootsie is barman. 0
It turns out to be a night neither
will forget... 0
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