KALEIDOSCOPE WELCOMES JULIET HARMER
AND DAVID "DIDDY" HAMILTON IN JUNE
Kaleidoscope is pleased to welcome two interesting and unusual guests to our summer event, David "Diddy" Hamilton and Juliet Harmer. In a remarkably varied career encompassing roles as diverse as continuity announcer, disc jockey, television presenter and match announcer for Fulham FC, David Hamilton has lots of memories of the industry going back decades. He will be talking at length about his time in the business. Best known for her starring role as Georgina Jones in Adam Adamant Lives!, former actress Juliet Harmer still has enduring appeal many years later. She will be joining us on stage for an illustrated retrospective of her acting career. Examples of both guests' work will also be showing at the event throughout the day.
Other screening highlights include the first episode of Roger Marshall's Travelling Man which sees the enigmatic Lomax begin a desperate search for his missing son against the backdrop of England's canals; supernatural chills with Leap in the Dark and Dramarama: Spooky and clever spy games in the superior seventies game show The Masterspy. The second viewing area will be showcasing some of the programmes returned through the Raiders of the Lost Archive campaign of 2007 which Kaleidoscope supported. Alfred Burke, Eric Portman and Michael Gough feature in "The Last Reunion", an episode of ABC (ATV) Playhouse and Cliff Richard can be seen in an acting role in Playhouse - "A Matter of Diamonds". Mrs Wilson's Diary, with Nigel Hawthorne and On the Buses' Bob Grant and Stephen Lewis also features previously unseen footage.
The event will take place on Saturday 7th June 2008 at our usual venue, Stourbridge Town Hall, Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK between 12:00 noon - 7:00 pm. Admission is free, but voluntary donations to our designated charity, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution are encouraged.
They will all take place between 12:00 noon - 7:00 pm at our usual venue:
Amblecote Room
Stourbridge Town Hall
Stourbridge
West Midlands
UK
Admission to the events is free but voluntary donations to our chosen charity are encouraged. Kaleidoscope is once again supporting the Royal National Lifeboat Institution throughout 2008.
Hope to see some of you at the events this year.
JEREMY PAUL AT
KALEIDOSCOPE'S MARCH EVENT
Kaleidoscope was pleased to welcome the prolific writer Jeremy Paul to our first event of the year. One of television's foremost writers for decades, Jeremy Paul has been responsible for much notable original work, contributions to many popular ongoing series and well-regarded literary adaptations. His credits include "The Flipside of Dominick Hide" and "Another Flip for Dominick" for Play for Today, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, A Little Princess, Blackmail, Out of the Unknown, Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Matchgirl, Jemima Shore Investigates, The Gold Robbers, Redcap, Upstairs Downstairs and The Duchess of Duke Street. Many of these were showing at the event throughout the day to complement Mr. Paul's appearance on stage, where he gave a fascinating insight into his work on many well known series, the changes in the industry over the years and the writing process.
Other highlights of the programme included two episodes of Second City Firsts from BBC Pebble Mill, one written by Alan Bleasdale and the other recently recovered by Kaleidoscope from Philips 1500 format; Television in School, an Associated-Rediffusion documentary in colour on schools programming of the day; another special presentation of vintage trailers, advertisements and continuity; Graeme Garden attempting to keep order as stars from Swap Shop and It Ain't Half Hot Mum take a Star Turn Challenge and the rarely seen Alf Garnett sequel Till Death... which finds Alf and Else living in Eastbourne. Comedy fans could also enjoy Ronnie Corbett in the recently discovered sole surviving episode of The Corbett Files while an historic What the Papers Say featured early press coverage of the Falklands War.
The event took place on Saturday 1st March 2008 at our usual venue, Stourbridge Town Hall, Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK between 12:00 noon - 7:00 pm. Once again in support of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, voluntary donations from the day raised £121.79, bringing Kaleidoscope's overall total for this worthy cause since 1994 to £9,348.04
Sue Coombes, Honorary Secretary of RNLI Stourbridge Branch, said:
"Thank you all for another superb day on Saturday - it was great to see so many people there. Jeremy Paul was fantastic - another really charming, modest man who was very supportive of the RNLI.
You will be pleased to know that £121.79 was raised from the buckets bringing the total raised by Kaleidoscope since 1994 to £9,348.04. We, and the RNLI's lifeboat crews, are very grateful as we face what will no doubt be another very busy year for the service.
Thank you all again - we really do appreciate your continued support."
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