Stupid Rubbish by Dave Jeffery
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Getting Shirty
I don’t spend an awful lot on clothes, as they don’t interest me much. My wife makes fun of me because I wear everything until it utterly wears out, and I am quite happy to sew things or fix broken zip fasteners in order to make things last longer. I almost exclusively wear work-wear from…
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Presents Continuous
Explaining how I recreated the ABC Weekend Television start-up from the morning of Christmas Eve 1967.
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A Maze in Telly
How I arranged the 4-Square Maze theme for an orchestra in MuseScore 4.
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Remember the name
A look back at some bits and bobs I did as a favour for the late, and much missed, Rob Milburn.
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A Christmas Card
Explanation of how I created a Trumptonshire/BBC Presentation themed Christmas card for David Harper.
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Drawing the Curtains
A description of how I recreated the curtain that was used for magic buttons on Westward Television’s “Gus Honeybun’s Birthdays”
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Strings and Things
My efforts to reproduce the theme tunes to the BBC’s “Micro Live” and “Computers In Control” in different ways.
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Lemons Parking
A look at what the ground-breaking First Report/News at One theme would sound like if it had been played by an orchestra.
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Recurring Nightmare
A piece detailing the creation of an orchestral version of the Big Centre TV start-up and close-down themes in MuseScore.
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Torch and Go
Description of how music and graphics of the BBC Television Schools countdown from 1958 was recreated in MuseScore, Blender and Inkscape.
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Measure for Measure
BBC Television presentation had an inordinate amount of care put into it in the late 1950s and early 1960s. That may not seem surprising to people today, in an era when BBC Television presentation has a similar amount of effort put into it and has done for decades. However, there was a time between the…
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We will mend it…
At the end of June 2023, my friend Mark Simpson from BBC Northern Ireland’s presentation department wrote to me with a rather unusual request. “An incident has occurred with our BBC1NI globe. It seems a new cleaner has been into our Pres suite and wiped the legend with something which has taken some of the…