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Through the Square Window

Through the Square Window

By: Samira Ahmed
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A podcast guiding you through the UK television we watched in decades gone by, presented by cultural journalist Samira Ahmed and TV journalist Graham Kibble-White.2025 Art
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  • EPISODE 2: October 1990
    Oct 15 2025

    Welcome, stranger, to episode two of Through the Square Window!

    In this instalment, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White investigate a selection of UK TV shows that were airing 35 years ago, in October 1990: The TV pilot of cult topical comedy The Mary Whitehouse Experience; an episode on BBC One's teatime consumer affairs programme Watchdog; Anglia Television's sword and sorcery game show for children, Knightmare; and the first ever episode of Twin Peaks.

    If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on email@squarewindow.co.uk

    Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk

    This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

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    50 mins
  • EPISODE 1: September 1975
    Sep 17 2025

    In their first-ever episode, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White investigate a selection of UK TV shows that were also launching this month, albeit 50 years ago: The BBC1 hospital drama, Angels; Thames Television's spooky anthology series for children, Shadows (plus a look at BBC2's similarly occult-themed Leap in the Dark); BBC2 comedies Fawlty Towers and The Growing Pains Of PC Penrose; Samira's favourite, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Space:1999; and Graham's favourite, Yorkshire Television's glam rock-infused Animal Kwackers.

    If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on email@squarewindow.co.uk

    This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

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    52 mins
  • Through the Square Window - teaser
    Sep 7 2025

    The opening two minutes of episode one of Through the Square Window, a brand-new podcast hosted by Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White, guiding you through the UK TV shows we watched in decades gone by. Episode one launches later in September.

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    2 mins
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