This Nationwide item is a legend in my family. I well remember watching it live, aged 9, back in 1974 (Christ!):
(Via BoingBoing)
Gruts
keep your ear to the grindstone
This Nationwide item is a legend in my family. I well remember watching it live, aged 9, back in 1974 (Christ!):
(Via BoingBoing)
Fer crissakes! We used to have an empire…the greatest nation on earth…surely somebody, NATIONWIDE, got killed, arrested or robbed that same day? Much as I love being british, this is so embarassing.
Viv Stanshall was influenced by this to use a similar scenario in one of his Rawlinson End sketches for John Peel (the village populace is jumping on faces etc.)