Sunday, April 27th, 2025 on 5 at 7:30pm

Prepare to take a trip back in time as we remember the precious products from the 1970s that meant so much to us.

Narrated by Hayley Tamaddon and featuring Susan Calman, Vanessa Feltz, Richard Blackwood, Isla St Clair and Christopher Biggins, 70s Things We Loved and Lost celebrates the must-have toys, cutting edge tech, tastes and even the smells from that most chaotic and colourful of decades!

From Jackie magazine to the Camberwick Green annual; Angel Delight to Cheese and Pineapple on a stick; the On the Buses board game to the simple pleasures of the Viewmaster.

Vanessa Feltz recalls her days of teenage snogging and how spraying herself with Charlie perfume was a big part of that.

Farmers Rob and Dave Nicholson go head-to-head in the great Buckaroo challenge.

Susan Calman remembers looking up her teachers’ addresses in the phone book and is stunned by the entries in Jackie magazine’s ‘Cathy and Claire’ problem page.

Richard Blackwood explains his mother’s disapproval of 70s convenience food and, five decades on, finally gets to try some Smash.

By Eastieoaks

From Cwmderi to Walford, I have been watching soaps for more than 30 years and there is always a story to come.

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