I had a splendid time in Swansea today, speaking about Terry Nation and the Daleks at the Dylan Thomas Festival's special Doctor Who day. Many thanks to Leslie McMurty for making it such fun, and to Matthew Kilburn, who was wonderful.
In the event that Tyrone is reading this: grand to see you - please email me sometime via my website.
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Thank you very much Alwyn, I thoroughly enjoyed the two talks and our conversations during the breaks. The references to the Beatles, Kitchen sink drama, the Profumo affair, Tony Blair...I mean Harold Wilson...I can't think of a better way to spend a Saturday morning! 1963 seems in some respects quite alien (no pun intended!) and yet its most significant events and phenomena resonate today. I was also reminded of the reconstituted British 60s in the mid-90s. On a lighter note the reference to Larkin's Annus Mirabillis reminded me of the probable fate of Poor old Paul Nicholas's stage play about Profumo soon to be overshadowed by Andrew bloody Lloyd Webber! Even the creator of such execrable pop slop as 'Grandmas Party' does not deserve this fate?!
Later in the day Trefor was thrilled to meet 'Leela' actress louise Jameson as well as various Dr Who writers and an array of Dalek-related ephemera! She read three Dylan Thomas poems beautifully. There were a few gloriously gregarious Tom Baker-style scarf wearers in attendance and they literally added colour to the event! Full praise to the organisers!
I've just picked up a second hand copy of a late 90s book called OVERLOADED: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE FUTURE OF FEMINISM by Emelda Whelehan! It covers many of the then current issues surrounding the media portrayal/objectification etcetera of women. More to the point it is very good on such phenomena as 'Lad Culture', 'Loaded', 'Men behaving badly', 'The Spice Girls', Zoe Ball and so-on. Of course the book is very polemical and makes some interesting/compelling points about sexism in the media and wider society. The cultural references and the prescriptions Whelehan advocates ensures this book is very much a period piece!
In the previous comment I'd forgotten to ask you if you had read the above book?!
I've not come across Overloaded, rather to my regret. It sounds very fine, and just the kind of thing I should have read before writing about the 1990s. I'll look it up.
Nice to see Paul Nicholas's Profumo play getting good reviews - maybe it'll have a chance to establish itself before the musical takes over.
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