WEBVTT 00:00:14.147 --> 00:00:21.286 I like that You say 3 to 1, and then you click events and clusters like 3 to 1. 00:00:21.388 --> 00:00:25.291 You can't be too prepared with these things, you know? 00:00:25.358 --> 00:00:30.864 Hi. Welcome to our friend The computer, A computer history podcast. 00:00:30.896 --> 00:00:32.698 I'm Camila Galaz. 00:00:32.698 --> 00:00:38.371 I'm a writer and visual artist, and I'm here with my lovely co-host, Ana. 00:00:38.604 --> 00:00:40.439 Hi, I'm Ana. 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:49.548 I work as a web developer and producer for online courses and, yeah, a podcast host. 00:00:49.548 --> 00:00:54.387 Now, as it Seems to be. Gotta update your LinkedIn. 00:00:54.387 --> 00:00:56.322 I know I've updated my website. 00:00:56.322 --> 00:00:57.356 I've added this. 00:00:57.356 --> 00:01:01.161 I've added our friend the computer website to my website. 00:01:01.161 --> 00:01:03.729 I have not done that. 00:01:03.729 --> 00:01:04.897 Oh yeah we have a website. 00:01:04.897 --> 00:01:13.338 Yeah we have we have a website that we're working on, but it's kind of it's minimal at the moment, but you know, it's just going to continue building. 00:01:13.338 --> 00:01:15.707 I think that's kind of nice. 00:01:15.707 --> 00:01:17.677 So we should we tell? 00:01:17.677 --> 00:01:20.680 Yeah. Tell the ether about it. Do it. 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:34.760 Ok so it's our friend the dot computer so it doesn't have like a dot org or dot com extension but it has a dot computer and then it's just like the name as one word otherwise. 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:44.304 And yeah, it's, it's got our podcast episodes on it for the time being, but we may have other plans for that space. 00:01:44.370 --> 00:01:50.510 But yeah, it's not I don't want like a minimal I want to have like a max. 00:01:50.609 --> 00:01:54.813 Yeah. Maximal Maximalist. 00:01:54.813 --> 00:01:57.250 I want like maximum amount. 00:01:57.250 --> 00:02:01.120 Lots of gifs all over. Mhm. 00:02:01.186 --> 00:02:08.961 And I just want to, I basically want it to be like a Neopets fan site from the twins. 00:02:09.062 --> 00:02:10.462 Yeah. We'll make that happen. 00:02:10.462 --> 00:02:13.399 So far we just have bubbles coming out of the cursor. 00:02:13.399 --> 00:02:16.336 That's the only interactive stuff we have. 00:02:16.336 --> 00:02:18.937 But it's. It's enough for now. 00:02:16.336 --> 00:02:18.937 It's enough. 00:02:18.937 --> 00:02:26.778 I love it. You did a really good job, but this is a bonus episode. 00:02:26.778 --> 00:02:42.729 So we've been doing our season on pre-Internet networks and we're doing these sort of little fun bonuses that are looking at different uses and services that were available on these networks. 00:02:42.794 --> 00:02:50.068 So we've been looking at a lot of video text networks, but this is about a teletext service. 00:02:50.068 --> 00:03:00.479 So we had a chat about teletext previously where video text is a two way communication so people could sort of interact with it. 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:13.893 Teletext was one way, so it was just like text that was supplied to you so it would pop up on your television screen and it, so it would be these like these screens that you could click through. 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:19.032 So we're looking at Oracle, which was a teletext service in the UK. 00:03:19.132 --> 00:03:22.901 It started in 1978 and it closed in 1992. 00:03:22.968 --> 00:03:33.913 And my favorite part is always what this acronym stand for and Oracle stands for Optional Reception of Announcements by Coded Line Electronics. 00:03:34.013 --> 00:03:43.423 Do you think that the name came first or do you think that what it stands for okay, this definitely the acronym for sure. 00:03:43.522 --> 00:03:52.598 It sounds evil and big and cool and the long name just sounds really vague, but so long. 00:03:52.664 --> 00:03:56.102 Like why are you going to make a name that's so long and make it vague at the same time? 00:03:56.102 --> 00:03:58.737 Because we just call it Oracle, just that. 00:03:58.737 --> 00:04:07.112 Okay, so, so it provided lines of text on the TV screen via a receiver. 00:04:07.112 --> 00:04:20.125 These included advertisements, news, TV listings, and then also some original content such as the daily soap opera named Park Avenue, which is what we're going to look at today. 00:04:20.192 --> 00:04:24.764 So Park Avenue was written by a guy called Robbie Burns. 00:04:24.863 --> 00:04:37.810 It began in 1988, and they ended up airing 1445 episodes, which is a lot of crazy content. 00:04:37.910 --> 00:04:43.583 And it ended it only ended with like the end of Oracle, which was four years later. 00:04:43.583 --> 00:04:45.250 So it was around for four years. 00:04:45.250 --> 00:04:49.021 Was it made by the BBC or something like that? 00:04:49.088 --> 00:04:49.656 I don't know. 00:04:49.656 --> 00:05:04.470 I actually yeah, I think I know it's like ITV, so because it kind of reminds me of I mean, we'll get into the way that the stories are written, then kind of displayed later. 00:05:04.470 --> 00:05:13.245 But it really reminds me of like the BBC for radio soap operas where you have maybe like five characters or something. 00:05:13.245 --> 00:05:21.387 I think it's The Archers and there's just like a storyline that follows and this like fictional life that they're living in like a suburb. 00:05:21.387 --> 00:05:29.661 And it really reminds me of like the storylines that they have with Park Avenue a little bit. 00:05:29.762 --> 00:05:33.966 But yeah, that's just a little tangential. 00:05:34.033 --> 00:05:47.879 I get no sense that this one was very low fi, but yeah, I mean, I guess it's all from the UK and I guess it's taking away from radio plays. Mhm. 00:05:47.980 --> 00:05:54.454 So it was a daily, it was a daily soap opera via, it's all via text though. 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:59.858 No audio and new episodes would arrive on the service daily at 5 p.m. 00:05:59.925 --> 00:06:09.267 and they included around like 6 to 10 pages of text and sometimes they'd include these like teletext images, like a pixel based image of the main characters. 00:06:09.267 --> 00:06:26.418 And it was funny because I think sometimes these images were actually they just sort of made teletext versions of other like they had source material that was like some someone on the, on like a cover of a, of a music album or something. 00:06:26.418 --> 00:06:32.358 And then later people realized that they just sort of copied these other images. 00:06:32.358 --> 00:06:38.064 Yeah, I really wonder how they made these images because like, they're all quite photorealistic. 00:06:38.064 --> 00:06:39.432 They're not like comics. 00:06:39.432 --> 00:06:48.440 They're kind of like someone took a photograph and then somehow converted that photograph into like an eight bit pixel image. 00:06:48.540 --> 00:06:54.413 So I really I wonder what the process behind that was also like. 00:06:54.413 --> 00:07:12.464 Speaking of the kind of low fi ness of teletext and video text, I kind of just realized that like these video texts and teletext can kind of be described as like web 0.0. 00:07:12.464 --> 00:07:24.877 Yeah, you know, you have web 1.0 where you have like an actual web page with like a scroll bar, but it's not really interactive at all and it's just like information on a screen. 00:07:24.944 --> 00:07:33.985 And then you have Web 2.0, which becomes more interactive, and you can start putting your own inputs as a user and chat and relate to people. 00:07:34.052 --> 00:07:42.762 And then you have Web 3.0, which is a little bit more like complicated with like the back end of how stuff is stored, but or who it's owned by. 00:07:42.829 --> 00:07:45.630 But yeah, Web one Web 0.0. 00:07:45.630 --> 00:07:47.966 I feel like that's quite a good analogy. 00:07:47.966 --> 00:07:51.471 You know, like the fact that there's no scrollbar. 00:07:51.571 --> 00:08:08.620 It's eight bit it's not really that interactive, but it's more of just like a yeah, like a news channel or radio being kind of converted into text. 00:08:08.687 --> 00:08:16.562 Yeah, I don't know that that was I feel like we should have called our podcast web 0.0. 00:08:16.629 --> 00:08:17.663 Yeah. 00:08:17.663 --> 00:08:18.163 Or what? 00:08:18.163 --> 00:08:26.805 Web 0.01 maybe because that's to be some existence of it. 00:08:26.906 --> 00:08:37.316 So the reason that we have like a lot of information about Park Avenue is that there is like organization graphical, someone that is archiving it. 00:08:37.316 --> 00:08:46.359 They go to Park Avenue archives on Twitter, that Park Avenue APK with a k k and their website is an email box UK. 00:08:46.359 --> 00:08:53.765 But they're doing this like amazing job trying to retrieve and archive all the episode scripts and like ephemera from the show. 00:08:53.832 --> 00:08:59.004 And they retweeted this short article from 1989 about the writer and I'm going to read it. 00:08:59.004 --> 00:09:06.946 I it's the article is called Revenge is Sweet Eric who subeditor Robbie Burns knows how to get his revenge. 00:09:07.113 --> 00:09:14.220 Anyone who messes Robbie about may find that he's become a character in Aka's new daily drama Park Avenue on ITV. 00:09:14.220 --> 00:09:23.663 Teletext page 126 The doors to this suburban street which Robbie found by sticking a pin in the A to Z opened last December. 00:09:23.763 --> 00:09:29.201 The soap aims to be topical, but there will be an element of Rob's revenge. 00:09:29.268 --> 00:09:30.503 And then there's a quote from him. 00:09:30.503 --> 00:09:37.777 Someone recently broke into my car and stole the stereo, so I immediately thought of a burglar getting caught in Park Avenue, he says. 00:09:37.842 --> 00:09:44.383 And as for whether Sarah stays with the estate agent, it depends on how my own agent gets on with selling my house. 00:09:44.482 --> 00:10:04.971 So some of the archived episode scripts from like recorded VHS tapes, I guess that people just still like Pat around and others are text printouts and they've archived 877 episodes so far and they have 568 still to go. 00:10:05.071 --> 00:10:12.945 So wait, so no screen casts or screenshots, No, no. 00:10:13.044 --> 00:10:22.721 Too Web 2.0 for that today I thought maybe we could like read some of the episodes because they're kind of fun. 00:10:22.788 --> 00:10:25.457 So we're going to read episodes one, two, four. 00:10:25.457 --> 00:10:33.432 So like the first four and then I want to skip and go to the very final episode, Episode 1445. 00:10:33.499 --> 00:10:38.336 So these were a page, so they had pages. 00:10:38.336 --> 00:10:40.740 So I'm going to read each episode. 00:10:40.740 --> 00:10:47.346 I'm going to read like this, the intro and then the first page, and then we'll like switch out the pages for each episode. 00:10:47.413 --> 00:10:50.015 Is that good with you on it? Sounds great. 00:10:50.015 --> 00:10:51.149 I'm ready. 00:10:51.149 --> 00:10:51.683 Okay. 00:10:51.683 --> 00:10:55.888 I'm excited to learn about what happens on Park Avenue. 00:10:55.955 --> 00:11:03.095 So episode number one was Thursday 1st December 1988. 00:11:03.162 --> 00:11:06.631 The story so far we really jump in here. 00:11:06.631 --> 00:11:12.738 I feel like Richard Gold and live in girlfriend Sarah right on getting on. 00:11:12.837 --> 00:11:17.208 She thinks he doesn't work hot enough and he thinks she works too hard. 00:11:17.308 --> 00:11:20.312 Rich's estate agency isn't doing too well. 00:11:20.479 --> 00:11:23.615 Susan Finder is running up a huge credit card bill. 00:11:23.883 --> 00:11:29.587 Local paper editor Dave Finder is set for a showdown with his and over the papers quality. 00:11:29.654 --> 00:11:33.225 Robert, find out, has shocked his parents by putting on an earring. 00:11:33.458 --> 00:11:36.995 Don Davie is desperately looking for an acting job. 00:11:37.062 --> 00:11:37.830 Right. All right. 00:11:37.830 --> 00:11:48.340 So first page, An investigation has been launched into a train crash in Newcastle in Sarah Riot switched off the radio slash alarm and yawned. 00:11:48.441 --> 00:11:52.211 She sat up in bed and stared at her boyfriend, Richard Gold. 00:11:52.278 --> 00:11:57.249 He wouldn't have to get up until 830 to open up his estate agency, Gold's. 00:11:57.316 --> 00:12:00.318 He had a reasonably easy life, she thought. 00:12:00.318 --> 00:12:05.291 Well, she had to work 100 hours a week as a junior doctor at Parkville Hospital. 00:12:05.390 --> 00:12:09.662 He owned megabucks, so she picked up very little for the hours she had to put in. 00:12:09.729 --> 00:12:14.432 She felt tired and irritable and wondered why I should ever study to be a doctor. 00:12:14.700 --> 00:12:17.269 100 hours a week is a lot of hours a week. 00:12:17.269 --> 00:12:20.239 That's crazy. 00:12:20.339 --> 00:12:22.173 Also, what is an M.D.? 00:12:22.173 --> 00:12:22.875 I don't know. 00:12:22.875 --> 00:12:30.014 I was like, Doctor, but I don't know why he would be in a showdown with his doctor over his papers, calling. 00:12:30.115 --> 00:12:31.649 Well, maybe we'll find out. 00:12:31.649 --> 00:12:33.251 Yeah. 00:12:33.251 --> 00:12:35.287 Okay. All right. Next page. 00:12:35.287 --> 00:12:36.922 Next page. 00:12:36.922 --> 00:12:38.823 Sarah scrambled out of bed. 00:12:38.823 --> 00:12:43.461 She'd finished at the hospital at midnight, and she was due in again at 7 a.m. 00:12:43.461 --> 00:12:46.831 as she opened day one of her advent calendar. 00:12:46.865 --> 00:12:50.402 She'd always had one. Richard woke up. 00:12:50.469 --> 00:12:52.403 What's the time? He mumbled. 00:12:52.403 --> 00:12:54.273 Six, said Sarah. 00:12:54.273 --> 00:12:57.676 And when you get in tonight, for Pete's sake, clean up the house. 00:12:57.710 --> 00:12:58.844 It's a tip. 00:12:58.844 --> 00:13:03.381 Have the night off the wine bar for a change and do something useful. 00:13:03.481 --> 00:13:08.953 Just I mean, I love I love this attitude. 00:13:09.053 --> 00:13:13.292 Stop nagging, moaned Richard, and put the duvet over his head. 00:13:13.292 --> 00:13:20.732 Sarah strode out into the morning to face her growing list of patients and banner waving nurses. 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:27.706 Oh, so the NHS strikes were on back then too. 00:13:27.807 --> 00:13:28.673 I mean, I get it. 00:13:28.673 --> 00:13:30.208 She she finished. 00:13:30.208 --> 00:13:33.211 She finished work at midnight. Yeah. 00:13:33.379 --> 00:13:35.214 And she has to be there at seven. 00:13:35.214 --> 00:13:39.585 So she, she got home at like one and has to leave at like six. 00:13:39.684 --> 00:13:43.188 All right, next page Sue find her. 00:13:43.221 --> 00:13:47.025 00 news and got ready to go out. 00:13:47.125 --> 00:13:52.464 She'd taken an afternoon off her part time secretarial job to do some Xmas shopping. 00:13:52.464 --> 00:13:54.332 The second post arrived. 00:13:54.332 --> 00:13:58.537 She owed £450 on her credit card but didn't worry too much. 00:13:58.770 --> 00:14:00.873 Her limit was £800. 00:14:00.873 --> 00:14:05.845 She'd been spending a lot on clothes recently as wife of a local newspaper editor. 00:14:05.845 --> 00:14:09.447 She went to a lot of dos and she liked looking good. 00:14:09.514 --> 00:14:16.422 As she walked to the bus stop, she thought about what she had to buy cards, clothes and little presents for the children. 00:14:16.455 --> 00:14:18.190 The turkey could wait. 00:14:18.190 --> 00:14:18.990 Okay, wait. 00:14:18.990 --> 00:14:21.527 So I'm just going to ignore it. 00:14:21.527 --> 00:14:28.200 Like any mention of monetary value in this, because when was this made? 00:14:28.267 --> 00:14:29.969 88. Yeah. 00:14:29.969 --> 00:14:38.543 So like, the currency would have just completely fluctuated since then and you know, the value would have increased. 00:14:38.610 --> 00:14:41.779 So she should be worried because it means she owes a lot more than 400 and. 00:14:41.880 --> 00:14:47.886 Yeah, yeah, that's like quite a lot for the time I guess. 00:14:47.952 --> 00:14:49.554 Okay, cool. 00:14:49.554 --> 00:15:02.368 So next page, Richard Gold was proud of the estate agents office he'd set up a year ago, but that was during the property boom and he and his partner Clive weren't making as much as they used to. 00:15:02.368 --> 00:15:04.068 Just six months ago. 00:15:04.068 --> 00:15:07.706 Look after the office, Carob, said Richard to the receptionist. 00:15:07.773 --> 00:15:10.109 Clive and me are off to lunch. 00:15:10.109 --> 00:15:13.345 Richard and Clive walked down Parkfield High Street. 00:15:13.412 --> 00:15:15.480 How's that cracking girlfriend of yours, then? 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:17.448 Asked Clive Knox. 00:15:17.448 --> 00:15:21.486 A law replied Richard, That's when I get to see her. 00:15:21.486 --> 00:15:23.956 Of course, she's always at the ready hospital. 00:15:23.956 --> 00:15:30.729 I want to decode Ruddy the bloody hospital. 00:15:30.796 --> 00:15:32.530 Right next page. 00:15:32.530 --> 00:15:33.499 Can I join you? 00:15:33.499 --> 00:15:41.307 I've registrar at Parkfield Hospital, Paul Clinton asked Sarah right as she was having a quiet cup of tea in the hospital's canteen. 00:15:41.373 --> 00:15:43.942 Shah said Sarah So how's life? 00:15:43.942 --> 00:15:45.076 Asked Paul. 00:15:45.076 --> 00:15:51.517 Sarah felt a bit nervous in the presence of Paul, and not just because he was a bus. 00:15:51.582 --> 00:15:54.820 She had always rather like to even fancied him. 00:15:54.919 --> 00:16:01.460 They chatted for quite a while about how busy the hospital was, the long hours and the nurses regrading issue. 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:04.495 Paul suddenly said, Can I take you out for a meal sometime? 00:16:04.495 --> 00:16:05.563 Perhaps. 00:16:05.563 --> 00:16:06.498 Why not? 00:16:06.498 --> 00:16:07.599 Replied Sarah. 00:16:07.599 --> 00:16:10.001 She couldn't believe her luck. 00:16:10.001 --> 00:16:12.904 So that's why she's spending so much time at the hospital. 00:16:12.904 --> 00:16:19.077 Yeah, she's like, I have to work a hundred hour. 00:16:19.144 --> 00:16:21.279 I do? 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:23.248 Yeah. Yeah. 00:16:23.248 --> 00:16:23.916 Back home. 00:16:23.916 --> 00:16:29.120 What am I right? 00:16:29.221 --> 00:16:31.590 Okay, Next page. 00:16:31.590 --> 00:16:34.592 Christmas Muzak music. 00:16:34.692 --> 00:16:35.727 Muzak. 00:16:35.727 --> 00:16:44.302 Muzak blared out from the shops in Parkfield High Street, and Sue Finder walked around trying to decide what to buy first. 00:16:44.403 --> 00:16:47.373 She felt quite warm, considering it was now December. 00:16:47.605 --> 00:16:51.710 She paused to look in the new window of Parkfield Department store. 00:16:51.809 --> 00:16:55.980 Two men stopped as they passed her and when asked her for the time. 00:16:56.048 --> 00:17:03.389 It's Sue didn't quite finish the reply as one of the men grabbed her and the other tried to take her handbag. 00:17:03.455 --> 00:17:06.458 She held on and started screaming. 00:17:06.592 --> 00:17:10.762 Suddenly she felt a blow and blacked out. 00:17:10.863 --> 00:17:16.801 No. Oh, that's really that's really that's really sad. 00:17:16.801 --> 00:17:19.771 Shadegg. Yeah. I feel sorry for her. 00:17:20.005 --> 00:17:20.939 Yeah. 00:17:20.939 --> 00:17:32.917 She's never going to be able to listen to Christmas music in the same way she. All right, So then we have to wait a whole day to get to see what happens. 00:17:32.984 --> 00:17:33.285 Okay. 00:17:33.285 --> 00:17:38.289 That was episode two Friday, 2nd of December 1988. 00:17:38.356 --> 00:17:42.795 The story so far, Susan Finder, is running up a huge credit card bill. 00:17:42.827 --> 00:17:51.636 Even though she was just like, I'm so local paper editor of the same Think Day Finder is set for a showdown with his MD over the papers quality. 00:17:51.869 --> 00:17:56.275 Sarah agrees to go out for a meal with Paul Clinton from the hospital. 00:17:56.340 --> 00:17:58.576 Robert find a has shocked his parents. 00:17:58.576 --> 00:17:59.344 Oh, he was alright. 00:17:59.344 --> 00:18:02.080 This already checked his parents by putting on an earring. 00:18:02.080 --> 00:18:04.383 Dan DAVIES desperately looking for an acting job. 00:18:04.383 --> 00:18:07.352 Sue is mugged in Parkfield High Street. 00:18:07.419 --> 00:18:09.520 Och, mugged. Just mugged, then. 00:18:09.520 --> 00:18:10.622 Just mugged. 00:18:10.622 --> 00:18:13.092 We're going to discharge you, said Dr. Sarah. 00:18:13.092 --> 00:18:14.393 Right To Sue. 00:18:14.393 --> 00:18:18.630 Find who was lying in a hospital bed with her husband, Dave, at his side. 00:18:18.696 --> 00:18:21.066 Sue had a nasty bump on the head. 00:18:21.066 --> 00:18:22.000 Yeah. 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:26.404 I mean, this doesn't seem like a large town. 00:18:26.471 --> 00:18:31.343 Sue had a nasty bump on the head, and apart from a bad headache, she felt okay. 00:18:31.410 --> 00:18:34.712 I still can't believe you were mugged in Parkfield High Street in broad daylight. 00:18:34.712 --> 00:18:36.048 Said Dave. 00:18:36.048 --> 00:18:38.450 At least I didn't get much. Just ten quid. 00:18:38.450 --> 00:18:40.853 I had my credit cards in my pocket. 00:18:40.853 --> 00:18:43.221 You just got to keep them close. 00:18:43.221 --> 00:18:44.556 I was really scared. 00:18:44.556 --> 00:18:46.924 I just can't believe it happened to me. 00:18:46.924 --> 00:18:48.527 And there were so many people around. 00:18:48.527 --> 00:18:52.897 No one tried to help me even though I was screaming, said Sir. 00:18:52.964 --> 00:18:54.967 Could they find her? 00:18:54.967 --> 00:19:00.105 Walked out of the ward with Sarah as Sue prepared herself to leave the hospital. 00:19:00.204 --> 00:19:02.173 Are you sure she's going to be okay? 00:19:02.173 --> 00:19:03.674 Steve anxiously. 00:19:03.674 --> 00:19:05.309 Yes, said Sarah. 00:19:05.309 --> 00:19:06.778 But she'll have to take it easy. 00:19:06.778 --> 00:19:08.747 Have a week off from work. 00:19:08.747 --> 00:19:11.549 Have there been a lot of people, Mike, like that recently? 00:19:11.549 --> 00:19:12.750 Asked Dave. 00:19:12.750 --> 00:19:14.987 You work for the local paper, don't you? 00:19:14.987 --> 00:19:16.020 Said Sarah. 00:19:16.020 --> 00:19:25.430 Well, don't quote me, but we've had a lot of people in who have been mugged or attacked in the street, said Dave thoughtfully, once. 00:19:25.430 --> 00:19:28.000 Okay, that's a great crime. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:33.005 Spree Avenue investigation continues. 00:19:33.070 --> 00:19:41.547 I like his response, just like right next page, Sid said. 00:19:41.547 --> 00:19:52.523 Ivy Smith, interrupting her husband for the third time as he tried to read Edward and Me by TV Blond, a gripping story on the front page of the Daily Express. 00:19:52.590 --> 00:19:56.228 Yes, said Con, interrupting. 00:19:56.295 --> 00:20:00.832 We split up this house into flats to make money in our old age, didn't we, Ivy? 00:20:00.865 --> 00:20:02.800 Yes, replied Sid. 00:20:02.800 --> 00:20:05.503 So why haven't we had December's rent from Don? 00:20:05.503 --> 00:20:07.772 Alcohol. US Ivy. 00:20:07.772 --> 00:20:10.642 Well, they're only two days late. 00:20:10.642 --> 00:20:12.211 They've both been in trouble before. 00:20:12.211 --> 00:20:13.612 Ivy interrupted. 00:20:13.612 --> 00:20:17.915 All right, I'll go and see them, said Sid, returning to the Express. 00:20:17.982 --> 00:20:19.451 Ivy glared at him. 00:20:19.451 --> 00:20:22.788 He was too soft when it came to business. 00:20:22.887 --> 00:20:25.423 Yeah, landlord business. 00:20:25.423 --> 00:20:28.393 Yeah. Chases. 00:20:28.393 --> 00:20:28.926 We don't like. 00:20:28.926 --> 00:20:30.962 I don't like these two already. 00:20:30.962 --> 00:20:34.732 No. Day Finder drove his wife home. 00:20:34.833 --> 00:20:38.069 They went into the kitchen and Dave made them some tea. 00:20:38.135 --> 00:20:40.571 I've got to get back to work soon. 00:20:40.571 --> 00:20:42.074 Are you going to be okay? 00:20:42.074 --> 00:20:43.942 He asked, giving her a hug. 00:20:43.942 --> 00:20:46.944 They've been married for ten years and they were very close. 00:20:46.979 --> 00:20:53.951 Although there had been a few rows recently about their children, Robert and Jane. It's always your fault. 00:20:54.051 --> 00:20:56.255 That's the earring that we keep hearing about. 00:20:56.255 --> 00:21:00.392 Oh, yeah, I think so, said Sue. 00:21:00.392 --> 00:21:02.794 What's the latest on the work front? 00:21:02.794 --> 00:21:05.430 To be honest, I think I may be in trouble. 00:21:05.430 --> 00:21:08.000 The employee has asked to see me on Monday. 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:10.669 I don't think he's like the last few issues. 00:21:10.669 --> 00:21:13.739 There's not much news around, replied Dave. 00:21:13.771 --> 00:21:16.575 Okay, so the M.D. 00:21:16.575 --> 00:21:22.580 is part of the investigation for Park Avenue, figuring out what it means. 00:21:22.647 --> 00:21:26.285 I feel like we're we're slowly getting to the. 00:21:26.351 --> 00:21:28.619 Is he the editor? 00:21:28.619 --> 00:21:30.122 Sounds like it. Yeah. 00:21:30.122 --> 00:21:33.424 Oh, like the guy that maybe owns the paper. 00:21:33.491 --> 00:21:36.994 And Dave, is that someone else in charge of what Dave is writing about? 00:21:36.994 --> 00:21:37.328 Yeah. 00:21:37.328 --> 00:21:43.402 So Dave really needs to get a story, and maybe this mugging is. 00:21:43.402 --> 00:21:45.037 Is the one. 00:21:45.037 --> 00:21:46.771 All right, next page. 00:21:46.771 --> 00:21:48.006 Here we are. Done. 00:21:48.006 --> 00:21:54.613 The stage is all yours, said John Hardy, owner of Park Stores near Don's flat. 00:21:54.613 --> 00:21:55.314 Thanks. 00:21:55.314 --> 00:21:58.016 And a packet of jacket, potato crisps. 00:21:58.016 --> 00:22:02.354 Probably all I'll have today done, Dave DAVIES said bitterly. 00:22:02.453 --> 00:22:04.990 Probably all of it occurs. 00:22:04.990 --> 00:22:07.826 Sounds good. It was a tailor. 00:22:07.925 --> 00:22:08.426 Yeah. 00:22:08.426 --> 00:22:11.730 It's not like I mean skins. 00:22:11.797 --> 00:22:15.901 Well, no, no, because a jacket potato is like a boy. 00:22:15.901 --> 00:22:17.803 Like a boiled potato. 00:22:17.803 --> 00:22:22.074 And you put stuff inside, and then potato chips are obviously chips. 00:22:22.173 --> 00:22:22.374 Yeah. 00:22:22.374 --> 00:22:29.114 So what the hell is this, like, hybrid combination of I want wanted potato cooking styles. 00:22:29.114 --> 00:22:32.084 Yeah, I want probably all I'll have today. 00:22:32.084 --> 00:22:34.185 Not David's and fiddly. 00:22:34.185 --> 00:22:37.622 Are you running short of money against John out of work? 00:22:37.622 --> 00:22:40.291 Actors don't get much for fight done. 00:22:40.291 --> 00:22:42.760 You never know. 00:22:40.291 --> 00:22:42.760 There might be a job in here. 00:22:42.760 --> 00:22:47.332 He opened the actors newspaper. 00:22:47.432 --> 00:22:50.301 I thought you were good pretending to play the fruit machine in that soap. 00:22:50.301 --> 00:22:51.803 Said John. 00:22:51.803 --> 00:22:53.471 My only part in three months. 00:22:53.471 --> 00:22:56.307 Great work done. 00:22:56.307 --> 00:23:00.010 And love your voice for. 00:23:00.077 --> 00:23:02.146 It's evolving the more I learn about it. 00:23:02.146 --> 00:23:04.082 You're an actor. 00:23:04.082 --> 00:23:06.050 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 00:23:06.050 --> 00:23:09.354 I couldn't do that for my bit. 00:23:09.421 --> 00:23:11.455 You were good, though, said John. 00:23:11.455 --> 00:23:16.595 It really looked like you were a man playing a fruit machine. 00:23:16.661 --> 00:23:18.130 Very funny. 00:23:18.130 --> 00:23:20.132 I've got to get a part soon. 00:23:20.132 --> 00:23:23.734 I'm just waiting for Sid to ask where December's rent is set. 00:23:23.734 --> 00:23:26.738 Done. Sid and I've are a nice old couple. 00:23:26.872 --> 00:23:28.740 They'll give you time, said John. 00:23:28.740 --> 00:23:29.574 Maybe. 00:23:29.574 --> 00:23:40.885 Maybe they started out until dawn, stared out into a rainy Park Avenue and wondered if he'd ever work again. 00:23:40.951 --> 00:23:42.788 Oh my God. 00:23:42.788 --> 00:23:46.825 So at this stage, the stage is the actor's neck is the acting. 00:23:46.924 --> 00:23:48.660 Oh, okay, cool. 00:23:48.660 --> 00:23:51.061 He looked at the stage again. 00:23:51.061 --> 00:23:52.530 Hang on, he said. 00:23:52.530 --> 00:23:53.798 What a good idea. 00:23:53.798 --> 00:23:57.169 He went home and grabbed the phone about the job. 00:23:57.269 --> 00:24:02.907 He said, Oh, that's a cliffhanger this time. 00:24:02.907 --> 00:24:04.942 Yeah. 00:24:04.942 --> 00:24:05.376 All right. 00:24:05.376 --> 00:24:07.511 Episode number three, Saturday. 00:24:07.511 --> 00:24:10.347 So it's a Saturday, 19th December 00:24:10.347 --> 00:24:13.951 05 p.m.. 00:24:14.019 --> 00:24:15.287 Put that on the teletext. 00:24:15.287 --> 00:24:17.855 The article we want know what's happening. 00:24:17.855 --> 00:24:23.828 Well they had a little putting on our shoulder pads flopping on. 00:24:23.894 --> 00:24:24.462 All right. 00:24:24.462 --> 00:24:28.799 The story so far, Susan fan still running up a credit card bill. 00:24:28.834 --> 00:24:33.939 They find it still set for a showdown about the paper. 00:24:34.005 --> 00:24:38.276 Sarah has agreed to go for a meal with Paul Clinton from the hospital. 00:24:38.343 --> 00:24:44.215 Oh. Neither Karl nor Dan Davie can afford to pay Sid and Ivy this month's rent. 00:24:44.281 --> 00:24:52.156 Don may have found a job and then Sue was mugged in the Parkfield High Street and she's returned home from hospital. 00:24:52.257 --> 00:24:54.425 Okay, first take look through, Sue. 00:24:54.425 --> 00:24:55.059 I know. 00:24:55.059 --> 00:24:57.162 And I feel like we've really with neglected her. 00:24:57.162 --> 00:24:59.998 She just needs to. 00:24:59.998 --> 00:25:01.500 The phone rang at 10 a.m. 00:25:01.500 --> 00:25:03.067 in the find a household. 00:25:03.067 --> 00:25:03.634 Sue, find. 00:25:03.634 --> 00:25:06.570 I picked up the receiver at her bedside. 00:25:03.634 --> 00:25:06.570 Oh, man. 00:25:06.570 --> 00:25:09.574 My grandparents had, like, a telephone next to bed. 00:25:09.574 --> 00:25:11.843 Really? Yeah. 00:25:11.843 --> 00:25:16.146 It's a really old school thing that I only see in the movies these days. 00:25:16.213 --> 00:25:18.782 Is Robert there? As the voice. 00:25:18.782 --> 00:25:22.820 Sue wearily shouted to her son Robert phone. 00:25:22.921 --> 00:25:25.891 She heard Robert go downstairs to take his call. 00:25:25.891 --> 00:25:28.727 Dave stood under the duvet. Who was that? 00:25:28.727 --> 00:25:31.262 He asked. A call for Robert. 00:25:31.262 --> 00:25:32.364 You've got to talk to him. 00:25:32.364 --> 00:25:33.964 He isn't doing any schoolwork. 00:25:33.964 --> 00:25:36.968 And he got an earring. Said sir. 00:25:37.067 --> 00:25:39.770 Yes, okay, said Dave, sitting up. 00:25:39.770 --> 00:25:42.106 More to the point. How are you? 00:25:42.106 --> 00:25:47.444 My head still feels a bit sore, and I keep thinking about what happened all the time, said Sir. 00:25:47.444 --> 00:25:50.181 I mean, she's probably got, like, post-traumatic stress. 00:25:50.181 --> 00:25:51.715 They just sent her home. 00:25:51.715 --> 00:25:52.217 I know. 00:25:52.217 --> 00:25:53.684 Where's the journalist? 00:25:53.684 --> 00:25:56.688 He's the journalist. Here he is. 00:25:56.688 --> 00:26:03.894 So let's go down the arcade and play the machines, said Robert's friend Jason down the phone. 00:26:03.894 --> 00:26:09.200 Okay, replied Rob, who seemed to spend most of his time in the arcade. 00:26:09.300 --> 00:26:12.470 Robert got dressed and took the bus down to the high street. 00:26:12.570 --> 00:26:17.174 He had £5, which soon disappeared as he played the fruit machines with Jason. 00:26:17.275 --> 00:26:19.109 Why don't we get tattooed? 00:26:19.109 --> 00:26:20.744 Suggested Jason. 00:26:20.744 --> 00:26:21.579 I don't know. 00:26:21.579 --> 00:26:26.250 My mum's already got mad about my earring, said Rob. 00:26:26.317 --> 00:26:29.119 I'll find out how much it costs, said Jason. 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:30.188 Have you got any money? 00:26:30.188 --> 00:26:31.388 I've run out. 00:26:31.388 --> 00:26:33.325 No, replied Rob. 00:26:33.325 --> 00:26:36.327 That machine's just taken my fiver. 00:26:36.461 --> 00:26:38.395 Wait, so he has a gambling problem? 00:26:38.395 --> 00:26:40.798 Is that what's a fruit machine? 00:26:40.798 --> 00:26:42.133 It's like a slot machine, right? 00:26:42.133 --> 00:26:45.303 Or is that. Yeah, like a do something else. 00:26:45.336 --> 00:26:46.270 Well, if. 00:26:46.270 --> 00:26:51.542 Yeah, it's like a slot machine, but like, in a game room, it's like an arcade. 00:26:51.542 --> 00:26:52.943 It's more of just like a gaming. 00:26:52.943 --> 00:26:54.878 I don't think it's like a casino. 00:26:54.878 --> 00:26:59.851 I don't think it's like I do like they do in the eighties when they're. 00:26:59.917 --> 00:27:07.358 Yeah, but it's like the era getting Ted to play arcade games. 00:27:07.358 --> 00:27:07.726 Okay. 00:27:07.726 --> 00:27:09.094 Yeah, right. 00:27:09.094 --> 00:27:11.462 At least they're not drinking. 00:27:11.462 --> 00:27:16.067 I mean, maybe there's a lot of episodes that they need content for. 00:27:16.101 --> 00:27:18.936 So a good with kids then? 00:27:18.936 --> 00:27:27.412 The personnel officer at Park Fields Department stores asked Don Davey, who felt his interview for the position of Father Christmas had been rather tough. 00:27:27.511 --> 00:27:29.580 Yes, he says, the depressed one. 00:27:29.580 --> 00:27:33.652 Yes, I love Donald. 00:27:33.751 --> 00:27:34.285 Okay. 00:27:34.285 --> 00:27:39.624 I'm going to give you the job with time off for auditions if you need said the part, you start on Monday. 00:27:39.691 --> 00:27:47.731 It's great that the job hadn't really been what Don was after when he looked in the actor's paper at the stage. 00:27:47.731 --> 00:27:52.470 But at least he could pay Sipsmith the rent and buy his parents a decent present. 00:27:52.470 --> 00:27:57.776 Ho, ho, ho! He practiced as he took the bus home. 00:27:57.875 --> 00:28:03.748 So. Right, so tired and worn as she battled with another long day at the hospital. 00:28:03.815 --> 00:28:13.157 She did want to spend more time with Richard, but she had told him when they decided to live together that junior doctors worked long hours. 00:28:13.258 --> 00:28:16.227 Paul Clinton is that he's that commitment. 00:28:16.227 --> 00:28:17.362 Yeah, I said Clinton. 00:28:17.362 --> 00:28:18.962 Do you think it would be kind? 00:28:18.962 --> 00:28:20.898 I think it's Clinton. Yeah. Okay. 00:28:20.898 --> 00:28:27.404 A registrar interrupted her thoughts as they crossed in a corridor. 00:28:27.505 --> 00:28:29.874 Oh, Sarah, about that meal. 00:28:29.874 --> 00:28:32.210 How about Tuesday night? 00:28:32.210 --> 00:28:35.012 Um, yes, I suppose so. 00:28:35.012 --> 00:28:36.548 Great. 00:28:36.548 --> 00:28:40.852 Sarah felt nervous, but also excited at the thought of going out with Paul. 00:28:40.951 --> 00:28:44.221 She'd just tell Richard she was working anyway. 00:28:44.355 --> 00:28:47.357 She was only going out for a meal. 00:28:47.491 --> 00:28:50.494 Wow. Sarah. Wow. 00:28:50.561 --> 00:28:55.165 I mean, Paulson can't resist a sexy boss like her. 00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:58.001 I didn't say he was her boss. 00:28:58.001 --> 00:29:02.440 Said he was a boss. 00:29:02.507 --> 00:29:07.679 He's the boss. 00:29:07.746 --> 00:29:09.980 All right, next page. 00:29:09.980 --> 00:29:13.050 I still feel a bit nervous about going out to find a toad. 00:29:13.050 --> 00:29:16.855 Dave as he watched the football results rolling in on the TV. 00:29:17.087 --> 00:29:19.590 Not. That's hardly surprising. 00:29:19.590 --> 00:29:23.627 Yeah, it's like receiving. 00:29:23.627 --> 00:29:25.797 It's hardly surprising after your ordeal. 00:29:25.797 --> 00:29:28.799 Look, let's go to the cinema tonight and take the kids. 00:29:28.866 --> 00:29:31.803 You should be okay with all those around you. 00:29:31.803 --> 00:29:33.037 I suppose so. 00:29:33.037 --> 00:29:39.410 I just keep going over what happened in my mind, said Sir Robert and Jane came into the room. 00:29:39.510 --> 00:29:40.178 Oh, no. 00:29:40.178 --> 00:29:43.080 Bloody football, moaned Jane. 00:29:43.080 --> 00:29:45.884 We're all going to the pictures tonight, announced Dave. 00:29:45.884 --> 00:29:50.922 Even if Robert. 00:29:51.021 --> 00:29:54.625 So yes, we're all going to the pictures tonight, announced Dave. 00:29:54.659 --> 00:29:58.596 Even if Robert swaggered here. 00:29:58.663 --> 00:30:03.500 Robert wondered what his dad would think of him being tattooed. 00:30:03.601 --> 00:30:08.239 So much so misunderstood and ostracized. 00:30:08.306 --> 00:30:11.175 Or porcelain. Rubber. 00:30:11.175 --> 00:30:16.480 I like the underdogs. 00:30:16.513 --> 00:30:24.255 The Finder family settled down to watch a fish called Wanda Field Cinema. 00:30:24.255 --> 00:30:26.257 They were all enjoying it. 00:30:26.257 --> 00:30:37.101 Although Jane, an animal lover, was upset when a little dog was squashed in parentheses by a lump of concrete in this film. 00:30:37.101 --> 00:30:39.136 I need to see this film. 00:30:39.136 --> 00:30:40.838 I do. 00:30:40.838 --> 00:30:44.041 But I don't remember anything. 00:30:44.107 --> 00:30:45.676 Sounds great. 00:30:45.676 --> 00:30:52.150 Sue was feeling nervous, and suddenly she felt claustrophobic and found it hard to breathe. 00:30:52.349 --> 00:30:55.220 Oh, PTSD coming in. 00:30:55.220 --> 00:31:00.224 She stood up, breathing heavily, moved along the aisle and rushed to the exit. 00:31:00.325 --> 00:31:03.595 Dave ran after her. What's the matter? 00:31:03.694 --> 00:31:06.064 Take your son to the floor. 00:31:06.064 --> 00:31:09.000 What's the matter? 00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:10.768 I don't know. 00:31:10.768 --> 00:31:12.369 GASPS Sue. 00:31:12.369 --> 00:31:14.638 Can you take me home? 00:31:14.638 --> 00:31:18.643 Sorry. That's really silly. 00:31:18.710 --> 00:31:19.210 Okay. 00:31:19.210 --> 00:31:20.211 I feel really bad. 00:31:20.211 --> 00:31:27.218 This is quite interesting to see the way that mental health issues are being portrayed. 00:31:27.285 --> 00:31:30.288 I feel really like she's not okay. 00:31:30.288 --> 00:31:37.628 No, And it's all very kind of like blunt and cold and only depending on her symptoms, like she's actually not. 00:31:37.694 --> 00:31:40.365 Yeah, people aren't asking her anything. 00:31:40.365 --> 00:31:40.565 Yeah. 00:31:40.565 --> 00:31:49.973 And she kept saying, like, I keep I keep remembering, I keep flashing back and then everyone's like, yeah, I mean yeah, that happened. 00:31:50.074 --> 00:31:53.377 That did in fact happen. 00:31:53.443 --> 00:31:53.978 All right. 00:31:53.978 --> 00:31:57.248 So episode four Sunday, 00:31:57.315 --> 00:32:02.487 05 p.m.. 00:32:02.553 --> 00:32:04.756 We've all got to go to work tomorrow. 00:32:04.756 --> 00:32:06.758 The story so far. 00:32:06.758 --> 00:32:14.464 I mean, it's the same Suzanne Find has still got a credit card debt bill they find is waiting for stuff. 00:32:14.531 --> 00:32:18.068 There's a showdown with them over the papers quality. 00:32:18.135 --> 00:32:22.640 Sarah has agreed to go for the meal with Paul Constant from the hospital. 00:32:22.740 --> 00:32:28.078 Neither Karl not on Dave can afford to pay Sid and Ivy this month's rent. 00:32:28.145 --> 00:32:31.281 Dawn gets a job playing center at the department store. 00:32:31.481 --> 00:32:41.259 Robert Finder spends £5 on the fruit machines and Sue is still nervous about going out after the mugging and has a panic attack. 00:32:41.326 --> 00:32:42.993 It's my first page. 00:32:42.993 --> 00:32:45.696 Robert Finder came down the stairs. 00:32:45.696 --> 00:32:48.165 He was the first to stare on Sunday morning. 00:32:48.165 --> 00:32:52.703 Oh, it's just occurred to me that this is literally like day. 00:32:52.703 --> 00:32:57.775 The day it's the day, the day that it's being broadcast. 00:32:57.775 --> 00:32:59.676 Yeah, that's cool. 00:32:59.676 --> 00:33:03.448 He walked down the hall and saw his mum's handbag on the floor. 00:33:03.513 --> 00:33:17.127 Oh, he stopped still to listen if anyone else was up and then opened the bag and took £10, he thought to himself that he a lot of money back then. 00:33:17.194 --> 00:33:21.865 It's double what he lost on the first double what put it now. 00:33:21.865 --> 00:33:26.636 Probably if he'd put it back he'd win loads on the machines. 00:33:26.703 --> 00:33:30.474 Rob Sister Jane came down the stairs and Rob tried not to look guilty. 00:33:30.708 --> 00:33:32.509 Morning, said Jane. 00:33:32.509 --> 00:33:36.780 I said, Rob, shame we missed the end of the film last night. 00:33:36.847 --> 00:33:38.782 Yeah, agreed. Jane. 00:33:38.782 --> 00:33:40.317 I don't know what's the matter with Mum. 00:33:40.317 --> 00:33:43.887 She's in a funny mood now. She was mugged. 00:33:43.954 --> 00:33:45.022 Yeah, man. 00:33:45.022 --> 00:33:47.025 Bad vibes in that house. 00:33:47.025 --> 00:33:50.627 Mugged and now mugged by her own son. 00:33:50.795 --> 00:33:56.334 Yeah, she's okay. 00:33:56.334 --> 00:34:01.939 Don felt good as he went to get the Sunday papers from park stores. 00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:04.608 He had a job which would help pay the rent. 00:34:04.608 --> 00:34:08.646 Yes. Is playing Santa Claus at Parkfield Department store from tomorrow? 00:34:08.913 --> 00:34:11.715 Don asked store's owner John. 00:34:11.715 --> 00:34:13.885 Well done, said John. 00:34:13.885 --> 00:34:15.719 But I thought you hated kids. 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:24.394 I love said like action on the love, Love I love. 00:34:24.461 --> 00:34:32.170 Don went home and climb the stairs past it in Evie's flat and then met fellow tenant cattle Murphy on the stairs. 00:34:32.235 --> 00:34:35.572 I can't pay the rent yet, said cattle confidently. 00:34:35.672 --> 00:34:36.974 I can't either. 00:34:36.974 --> 00:34:39.876 We'd better not answer our door, said Don. 00:34:39.876 --> 00:34:41.846 Ran, strike, ran straight. Right. 00:34:41.846 --> 00:34:46.617 So it must be hard that they're like living in the. 00:34:46.684 --> 00:34:49.186 Yeah. Building. Yeah. 00:34:49.186 --> 00:34:50.588 The watchful eye. 00:34:50.588 --> 00:34:52.722 Yeah. Of Ivy. 00:34:52.722 --> 00:34:54.992 The King. Next page. 00:34:54.992 --> 00:35:00.965 I can't believe you've got a whole day off, said Richard Goad, as he and Sarah scanned the Sunday papers in the living room. 00:35:01.065 --> 00:35:08.039 I know it's great not having to worry people for a day, she said. It's so bad for her. 00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:12.710 In her hectic schedule, the doorbell rang and Sarah opened the front door. 00:35:12.710 --> 00:35:14.545 It was Dave finder. 00:35:14.545 --> 00:35:16.813 I wondered if I could have a word he said. 00:35:16.813 --> 00:35:18.483 It's about my wife. 00:35:18.483 --> 00:35:20.451 Sarah invited Davey and enlisted. 00:35:20.451 --> 00:35:28.025 Pace listens patiently as he told her that Sue was frightened to go out after her mugging and had had a panic attack when Dave left. 00:35:28.025 --> 00:35:32.496 Robert said so much for not having to worry about people for a day. 00:35:32.563 --> 00:35:40.304 Sixsmith knocked on his tenant cattle Murphy's door no answer, but said was sure he could hear movement. 00:35:40.403 --> 00:35:44.307 He knocked again, then went upstairs and knocked on Dan DAVIES door. 00:35:44.375 --> 00:35:45.208 No reply. 00:35:45.208 --> 00:35:50.447 Although the smell of freshly made toast wafted out into the corridor. 00:35:50.547 --> 00:35:53.451 Got God, the landlords like his. 00:35:53.451 --> 00:35:54.251 It's just like that. 00:35:54.251 --> 00:35:57.722 Like smelling, smelling, smelling. 00:35:57.722 --> 00:36:01.324 If there's humans inside should went back downstairs. 00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:03.661 Well, did you get the rent from them? 00:36:03.661 --> 00:36:05.362 Demanded Ivy Smith. 00:36:05.362 --> 00:36:07.164 They aren't in said said. 00:36:07.164 --> 00:36:09.032 I bet they are, said I've. 00:36:09.032 --> 00:36:12.036 We've got to catch them on the stairs. 00:36:12.170 --> 00:36:17.641 Well I'm not spending all day sitting in the corridor, said said five, said Ivy. 00:36:17.708 --> 00:36:21.077 If we get no rent we don't get Christmas dinner. 00:36:21.179 --> 00:36:27.585 So Sarah said, you'd have to go to your GP and maybe see a specialist If you carry on being nervous about going out. 00:36:27.717 --> 00:36:28.318 They find it. 00:36:28.318 --> 00:36:32.255 Told his wife, Well, that's a fat load of help, replied Sue. 00:36:32.322 --> 00:36:35.860 By the way, I seem to have lost the £10 note. 00:36:35.927 --> 00:36:38.929 Maybe you dropped it in the cinema last night, suggested Dave. 00:36:39.063 --> 00:36:41.298 I suppose I must have done so. 00:36:41.298 --> 00:36:43.201 Oh, well, never mind. 00:36:43.201 --> 00:36:48.072 Don't forget you promised to speak to Rob about his schoolwork and the earring. 00:36:48.172 --> 00:36:50.106 I'm more worried about this meeting with the M.D. 00:36:50.106 --> 00:36:50.907 tomorrow. 00:36:50.907 --> 00:36:54.579 I hardly think I'm going to get a pat on the back, said Dave. 00:36:54.644 --> 00:36:58.014 I want to know, like, what's up with his paper and why it's struggling. 00:36:58.014 --> 00:37:01.485 So yeah, maybe he needs work more. 00:37:01.686 --> 00:37:02.152 She said. 00:37:02.152 --> 00:37:03.253 He barely goes to work. 00:37:03.253 --> 00:37:07.592 I think he needs to work like 100 hours. Hmm. 00:37:07.657 --> 00:37:08.259 Right. 00:37:08.259 --> 00:37:12.563 You just need another £5 and we can get our tattoos done. 00:37:12.630 --> 00:37:17.001 Robert finds his friend Jason told him as they wandered around town center. 00:37:17.134 --> 00:37:20.036 And there's this acid house party on next weekend. 00:37:20.036 --> 00:37:23.474 If you fancy it. Acid house. Amazing. 00:37:23.574 --> 00:37:24.742 I don't know if it's actually a house. 00:37:24.742 --> 00:37:26.510 I think it's. No, I think it's a house. 00:37:26.510 --> 00:37:32.882 Is it a house party where they do acid house after party At house party. 00:37:32.882 --> 00:37:33.217 Yeah. 00:37:33.217 --> 00:37:36.987 There's like acid house party house phrase. 00:37:36.987 --> 00:37:40.324 Hyphenated acid is one word rather. 00:37:40.391 --> 00:37:44.061 I mean acid house, house hyphenated and then party. 00:37:44.161 --> 00:37:45.161 There's no hyphen here. 00:37:45.161 --> 00:37:46.998 So I think we can choose whatever. 00:37:46.998 --> 00:37:47.632 Yeah, true. 00:37:47.632 --> 00:37:50.867 Whichever way we want to go with. 00:37:50.967 --> 00:37:53.070 Yeah, great, replied Robert. 00:37:53.070 --> 00:37:55.172 See you at school tomorrow. 00:37:55.172 --> 00:38:02.579 He went home just in time for Sunday lunch as he passed his sister's room, he noticed a pile of change in a glass bowl. 00:38:02.646 --> 00:38:08.552 He looked around, slipped into the room, took out some pound coins, and started to put them in his pocket. 00:38:08.652 --> 00:38:11.889 He turned round and saw Jane, you thief. 00:38:11.922 --> 00:38:17.961 She said, Oh, turn, turn, turn. Wow. 00:38:18.061 --> 00:38:18.528 Cool. 00:38:18.528 --> 00:38:21.931 Okay, so that's that's we're going to do the final episode now. 00:38:21.931 --> 00:38:27.438 But like, there's a lot that they packed into your day to unpack here. 00:38:27.538 --> 00:38:28.806 Yeah. 00:38:28.806 --> 00:38:40.050 I mean it's and it's also interesting, like the social commentary of the time and even the stuff about like generational things like with the tattoos and. 00:38:40.284 --> 00:38:41.117 Right. Yeah. 00:38:41.117 --> 00:38:52.096 Like what kind of like blasphemy kind of meant then, which was like basically not paying your rent on time and wearing earrings and stealing. 00:38:52.096 --> 00:38:56.500 I guess stealing was kind of bad. 00:38:56.599 --> 00:38:57.367 I mean, I don't know. 00:38:57.367 --> 00:39:00.403 I feel like your values were a bit different, I guess. 00:39:00.403 --> 00:39:04.108 Yeah, definitely a lot more conservative than the stealing is. 00:39:04.175 --> 00:39:07.043 I imagine the stealing is going to get more and more intense. 00:39:07.043 --> 00:39:08.945 Yeah, and something will happen. 00:39:08.945 --> 00:39:14.050 Also, tattoo's so cheap and that is true. 00:39:14.117 --> 00:39:18.255 Like 16, £15 for two tattoos. 00:39:18.322 --> 00:39:22.693 And Jason, what did Jason say that he said so. 00:39:22.793 --> 00:39:34.003 So he had he stole ten Rob stole £10 and then Jason said, we just need another five and then we can get our tattoos done. 00:39:34.105 --> 00:39:36.440 Oh, yeah, that's crazy. 00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:40.510 But then again, like this, the value was a lot lower. 00:39:40.577 --> 00:39:42.713 I mean, a lot higher. 00:39:42.713 --> 00:39:44.280 Yeah, but not. 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:48.719 Not like I feel like tattoo is a very expensive, Bill. 00:39:48.786 --> 00:39:51.322 Yeah, they're like 60 quid, I think. 00:39:51.322 --> 00:39:53.023 Like a small one. 00:39:53.023 --> 00:39:54.324 Yeah, that's true. 00:39:54.324 --> 00:39:56.927 No, the, the difference is crazy. 00:39:56.927 --> 00:40:04.235 And it's cool that they're sort of looking at this landlord, landlord and stuff. 00:40:04.300 --> 00:40:05.135 Yeah. 00:40:05.135 --> 00:40:07.838 They're all really not likable characters. 00:40:07.838 --> 00:40:08.204 Yeah. 00:40:08.204 --> 00:40:16.380 I mean, except the guy from the, from the store was like, they're nice old people, but they're not being portrayed nicely at all. 00:40:16.380 --> 00:40:17.981 Yeah, Yeah. 00:40:17.981 --> 00:40:26.724 Also, though, we have to remember this all comes from the mind of Robbie Burns, who has said that he is taking like, revenge on people in his own life. 00:40:26.724 --> 00:40:33.731 So maybe he had some really bad experiences with the landlord and like, I got to get that on paper. 00:40:33.797 --> 00:40:38.168 All right, so let's skip to very final episode. 00:40:38.402 --> 00:40:41.639 So this is episode 1445. 00:40:41.704 --> 00:40:45.208 So that's there's been a lot of story that's happened. 00:40:45.275 --> 00:40:50.981 It is Wednesday, the 30th of December 1992. 00:40:51.081 --> 00:40:56.052 So we're going to do the story so far was pretty much the same in all this other ones, but it's quite different now. 00:40:56.052 --> 00:41:09.934 So the story so far, Sarah and Harriet are being attacked by what they think is Richard's ghost may Harriet is hit by a book. 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:22.045 The rector is also scared when he tries to exorcize the ghost, Jane wins her battle, her grades are improved and lecturer Richards is suspended. 00:41:22.112 --> 00:41:24.849 But Richards threatens Jane near her landlady. 00:41:24.849 --> 00:41:30.788 This house, they find, is working on a brilliant scheme which he'll reveal on New Year's Eve. 00:41:30.954 --> 00:41:35.592 Karl comes back on Christmas Day and is reunited with Mary. 00:41:35.693 --> 00:41:46.536 Okay, so like the drama has significantly increased real shift in genre turned to a psychedelic horror. 00:41:46.536 --> 00:41:47.505 Yeah, Yeah. 00:41:47.505 --> 00:41:53.177 That acid house party really changed people. 00:41:53.277 --> 00:41:55.813 Okay, so some new characters here. 00:41:55.813 --> 00:41:58.181 Harriet is the rector. 00:41:58.181 --> 00:41:59.650 Jane is the daughter. 00:41:59.650 --> 00:42:02.452 I think the one that was like you sees. 00:42:02.452 --> 00:42:05.155 Oh, yeah, They find her still there. 00:42:05.155 --> 00:42:09.226 Mm. And Sarah was the one that was at the hospital, right? 00:42:09.326 --> 00:42:13.329 Yeah. Okay. All right. 00:42:13.429 --> 00:42:17.201 This is firstly, this isn't capital, which is insane. 00:42:17.367 --> 00:42:20.003 How are you feeling? Richter asked. 00:42:20.003 --> 00:42:21.271 Sarah. 00:42:21.271 --> 00:42:25.643 I'm all so the clergyman sitting up in bed at the hospital. 00:42:25.742 --> 00:42:31.114 I think they're going to discharge you, said Sarah, you've got a bit of a nasty gash. 00:42:31.181 --> 00:42:35.786 I'm very worried about this violent, ghostly presence of yours at the Rector. 00:42:35.853 --> 00:42:38.155 It's Richard, said Sarah. 00:42:38.155 --> 00:42:42.458 Even when he's dead, he causes trouble. 00:42:42.525 --> 00:42:44.295 Okay. 00:42:44.295 --> 00:42:48.298 It's Richard, the curse Richard got right. 00:42:48.298 --> 00:42:54.637 So Richard is her husband from earlier, and she was cheating on him. 00:42:54.637 --> 00:42:56.907 Going to cheat on him with that? 00:42:56.907 --> 00:42:57.840 With Paul. 00:42:57.840 --> 00:43:02.913 So? So Richard died at some point, so she's free. 00:43:02.913 --> 00:43:12.389 I just realized that now that, you know, I was like, why is it in capitals how you feel Like they've just changed the format and now every new page starts in capitals. 00:43:12.556 --> 00:43:14.157 Oh, okay. 00:43:14.157 --> 00:43:16.393 That makes sense. 00:43:14.157 --> 00:43:16.393 I'm not going to do with that. 00:43:16.393 --> 00:43:18.494 You can do it that way. 00:43:16.393 --> 00:43:18.494 You want it to be good. 00:43:18.494 --> 00:43:19.730 Like dramatic start. 00:43:19.730 --> 00:43:22.199 Just to wait to wake our audience up. 00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:31.507 Yeah, Myanmar are staying with you and Dave, said Sarah, it doesn't seem safe to stay in the house because it's all because it's not that. 00:43:31.507 --> 00:43:37.981 Yeah, I'll have to consult people in the church who have more expertise in this than myself, said the Rector. 00:43:38.047 --> 00:43:41.150 Oh, no more exorcists, Alice. 00:43:41.150 --> 00:43:44.521 He doesn't seem to be following us around, said Sarah. 00:43:44.588 --> 00:43:48.525 I do feel that Ghost is very dangerous, said the rector. 00:43:48.626 --> 00:43:50.893 One of you could easily be killed. 00:43:50.893 --> 00:43:55.132 Stay away from the house, okay? 00:43:55.231 --> 00:43:57.166 Absolutely. Everyone. 00:43:57.166 --> 00:44:00.403 Was it Dave and Sue's New Year's Eve party? 00:44:00.503 --> 00:44:05.108 Jane had brought Andy, who was hopeful they were going to get back together. 00:44:05.175 --> 00:44:07.710 Don and Angela looked happy. 00:44:07.710 --> 00:44:13.282 Carl and Mariam held and looked very much like a couple in love. 00:44:13.317 --> 00:44:17.588 Jocasta and Mary danced happily to the music. 00:44:17.655 --> 00:44:24.260 Sarah and Harriet chatted to Terri, whose eyes opened wide when he heard of the ghost haunting the house. 00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:29.733 At a party just before midnight, Dave called everyone together. 00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:33.971 He held what looked like hundreds of pages of computer printouts in his hand. 00:44:33.971 --> 00:44:36.273 Oh, the computer is introduced. 00:44:36.273 --> 00:44:43.213 I think Hector, our friend Ray, our friends, the confused friend, the computer character. 00:44:43.347 --> 00:44:45.048 Someone turned the music off. 00:44:45.048 --> 00:44:47.050 This could be too good to miss. 00:44:47.050 --> 00:44:48.052 I hope this is good. 00:44:48.052 --> 00:44:50.586 After all the big build up, said Sue. 00:44:50.586 --> 00:45:06.302 My friends, the computer said, Dave, What I have to say may come as a shock, but I do think you'll find it interesting at the end of my page what I hold in my hand. 00:45:06.302 --> 00:45:13.777 A details of all your lives and the events that have happened in the Avenue in the last four years, he said. 00:45:13.844 --> 00:45:19.750 Just think of it all my battles at the paper, my wife leaving me and coming back. 00:45:19.750 --> 00:45:26.190 Mariam getting kidnaped, Kojo stealing money to gamble the siege. 00:45:26.255 --> 00:45:31.061 Siege, of course, Sid and Ivy Smith winning a million. 00:45:31.061 --> 00:45:33.429 All those landlords want $1,000,000. 00:45:33.429 --> 00:45:33.963 Oh God. 00:45:33.963 --> 00:45:46.777 Richard Ratings, Sarah The failure of the Hotel Ivy Seeing aliens, Jane burning and these clothes to name but a few things. 00:45:46.844 --> 00:45:48.411 What about the evil twins? 00:45:48.411 --> 00:45:50.780 Do they come round at some point? God, I don't know. 00:45:50.780 --> 00:45:52.248 What's that? What's the final page? 00:45:52.248 --> 00:45:54.150 And read it out? 00:45:54.150 --> 00:45:55.786 Dave continued. 00:45:55.786 --> 00:46:04.094 Basically, I've written a soap called Park Avenue and you know, ceefax the teletext service. 00:46:04.327 --> 00:46:08.231 It's going to screen all these adventures as a written soap. 00:46:08.331 --> 00:46:13.202 It'll be on the air every day and it'll revolve around everything that's happened. 00:46:13.469 --> 00:46:16.440 I'm going to give you all a percentage of the money. 00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:19.909 My pseudonym will be Robbie Burns. 00:46:20.010 --> 00:46:22.713 Yeah. 00:46:22.713 --> 00:46:23.146 Oh, my God. 00:46:23.146 --> 00:46:27.550 It's like the Matrix. 00:46:27.650 --> 00:46:30.721 Well, forgive me, said Carl Cattle. 00:46:30.721 --> 00:46:36.193 I've been saying this whole time, the end and that is, says Dash. 00:46:36.193 --> 00:46:46.670 Ah I, I, I may have degraded, I would say yeah, that's a really good meta ending. 00:46:46.670 --> 00:46:47.704 I like that. 00:46:47.704 --> 00:46:52.876 I'm shocked by all the things that happened in the four years I know. 00:46:53.043 --> 00:46:58.014 I kind of want to know about them, but also maybe not. 00:46:58.014 --> 00:47:11.327 But yeah, it's interesting what you said earlier about how it's written by Robbie Burns, who has like obviously this built up this kind of distrust in his community, from his community. 00:47:11.427 --> 00:47:15.398 And he's obviously like, yeah, I've written out the story. 00:47:15.398 --> 00:47:27.010 I mean, yeah, I guess it's like, I like that Robbie Burns, the real life Robbie put himself and let credit himself in the final, final. 00:47:27.110 --> 00:47:29.045 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:47:29.045 --> 00:47:38.722 But also interesting that, that like then in this way it's like the real world and the teletext world coming together. 00:47:38.822 --> 00:47:42.291 And what does that mean about Robbie Burns then? 00:47:42.291 --> 00:47:54.503 Like if you look back at all the shit that Dave that Dave did that was in our weird combined universe, that means that was Robbie Totally. 00:47:54.570 --> 00:48:00.710 And then also like, it's very ironic that the computer was introduced in that last scene. 00:48:00.710 --> 00:48:10.554 Like, why did they mention the computer, when then like towards the end he was like, Oh, it's all going to be written on Ceefax until it is. 00:48:10.753 --> 00:48:11.420 But it's funny. 00:48:11.420 --> 00:48:20.664 I mean, I don't know if they like, put that much thought into it, but it's interesting to think about his then computer printouts, which is just like printed text. 00:48:20.731 --> 00:48:35.177 So I guess that he the idea is that he's been like secretly typing this for years, which makes sense because he's a journalist in your early hours saying, Oh, it's meant to be describing that day that it's being broadcast. 00:48:35.278 --> 00:48:38.215 Yet this is basically saying it's four years late. 00:48:38.215 --> 00:48:41.617 So like for the past four years, he's been writing down everything happened. 00:48:41.851 --> 00:48:42.885 So have we. 00:48:42.885 --> 00:48:45.889 And then it's going to be broadcast on the teletext. 00:48:45.922 --> 00:48:51.929 So it's like, have we actually what we've been what we were what people had been reading every day. 00:48:52.094 --> 00:49:00.670 Is that actually like his private notes or is that this was like set in four years early. 00:49:00.771 --> 00:49:02.105 Don't know. There's just a lot. 00:49:02.105 --> 00:49:05.608 I feel like there's a lot in there to unpack. 00:49:05.842 --> 00:49:34.503 Yeah, multiple Trixie definitely because yeah I mean the fact that like the telex, this telex soap opera was aired on the day that it was said for the story to be happening, then yeah, the fact that you said that that was actually all in the past, it means that like it in like IRA time when people were reading these these stories every day, they were actually like, looking into the future. 00:49:34.503 --> 00:49:35.972 That's quite cool. 00:49:35.972 --> 00:49:38.641 That's a fun little play on time. 00:49:38.641 --> 00:49:49.353 What what do you think about, like the idea that this was a really popular soap that ran every day for four years? 00:49:49.418 --> 00:49:50.286 They're really short. 00:49:50.286 --> 00:49:54.590 It's a really like digestible chunk of text. 00:49:54.590 --> 00:50:01.264 I mean, it's basically just like, you know, three or four tiny little paragraphs. 00:50:01.264 --> 00:50:09.472 And it's I can I can imagine that happening if you don't have like other forms of entertainment with ceefax. 00:50:09.572 --> 00:50:23.552 But it is also like really, really similar to The Archers on BBC Radio four, which to be fair, I do listen to what I like cooking my dinner on, on like a Sunday or something. 00:50:23.586 --> 00:50:25.155 How long the episodes? 00:50:25.155 --> 00:50:26.922 Oh God, I don't know. 00:50:26.922 --> 00:50:30.860 Maybe 15, 20 minutes. 00:50:30.860 --> 00:50:32.461 Like not that long. 00:50:32.461 --> 00:50:35.731 But even if you skip, like, even if you skip an episode, you. 00:50:35.798 --> 00:50:42.405 There's still the same characters and everything happens really slowly and there's like, drama and gossip. 00:50:42.405 --> 00:50:50.947 Good things, bad things happen, but you're able to kind of like make sense of the general gist of the story with missing a couple of episodes because the people are obviously busy. 00:50:50.947 --> 00:51:08.065 So it's kind of a nice like chill way of following a soap opera, which isn't so like intense and heavy as it is now, where you like binge watch Netflix TV shows and it takes up like, you know, a day or two of your life and then like, lost that time basically. 00:51:08.130 --> 00:51:10.534 So I can imagine it being popular. 00:51:10.534 --> 00:51:20.643 It's cool to see the way that they've made drama and like intrigue just through text. Mhm. 00:51:20.710 --> 00:51:20.976 Yeah. 00:51:20.976 --> 00:51:34.891 I mean I guess the, the there are like dramatic kind of soap opera books and things but I guess I think of soap opera as being very visual and audio based especially like people's reactions. 00:51:34.958 --> 00:51:36.092 Yeah. I think yeah. 00:51:36.092 --> 00:51:46.769 They played a lot with the fact that it was really dialog heavy but also because it was so minimal, like it allows for so much imagination for the reader. 00:51:47.003 --> 00:51:47.971 That's really cool. 00:51:47.971 --> 00:51:54.010 I like that it's minimal even though we are into maximalism now, I guess. 00:51:54.110 --> 00:51:59.382 I mean, you and me, we and our website are into maximalism, but yeah, yeah. 00:51:59.449 --> 00:52:01.650 Park Avenue on our website. 00:52:01.650 --> 00:52:04.554 Well, thanks for reading that with me. 00:52:04.554 --> 00:52:05.355 Thank you. 00:52:05.355 --> 00:52:06.590 That was really fun. 00:52:06.590 --> 00:52:17.134 We had a laugh going to work on my British British accent, something I've been doing for like ten years and I. 00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:25.775 So next episode we're going to go back to a heavy research, one that's looking at the Japanese video text network. 00:52:25.842 --> 00:52:28.311 Captain, do you have any updates? 00:52:28.311 --> 00:52:34.818 What's happening with external pages, external pages kind of on a hold at the moment? 00:52:34.818 --> 00:52:41.224 I've just been I've just been like working and like traveling a lot. 00:52:41.257 --> 00:52:47.097 So so my seeing my mom and my friends in various countries. 00:52:47.097 --> 00:52:55.472 So yeah, I've, I've been slacking a little bit with my like digital creative things, but that's fine too. 00:52:55.539 --> 00:53:04.681 I'm just slacking, you know, It's not acting, it's not slacking because nothing was like nothing was set up in the first place for for for next steps. 00:53:04.681 --> 00:53:06.983 So that's the key. That's the key. 00:53:06.983 --> 00:53:09.286 I just don't want any don't set up. 00:53:09.286 --> 00:53:12.021 Don't expect anything. 00:53:12.021 --> 00:53:13.190 What about you? 00:53:13.190 --> 00:53:15.692 Yeah, I've got a couple. I'm working on a few things. 00:53:15.692 --> 00:53:22.398 I've got I've got a few sort of writing projects that I've got coming out soon to be nice. 00:53:22.398 --> 00:53:26.101 Yeah, just developing a bit of film that I'm starting to develop. 00:53:26.101 --> 00:53:34.443 And I just finished a film project that might be showing screening sometime soon, so maybe I'll have some snacks. 00:53:34.443 --> 00:53:36.746 First episode, maybe. Yeah. 00:53:36.746 --> 00:53:40.684 So thanks everyone for being with us for this. 00:53:40.684 --> 00:53:45.054 If you want to read the rest of them. 00:53:45.121 --> 00:53:47.791 This, you know, more than half of them are available. 00:53:47.791 --> 00:53:55.065 It's at New Mailbox UK, which is the Park Avenue Archives, and they have a great Twitter account. 00:53:55.130 --> 00:54:02.639 Yeah, we'll put all the accounts and links in the show notes which you can check on our website. 00:54:02.639 --> 00:54:06.976 But yeah, thanks everyone and we'll see you next time. 00:54:07.210 --> 00:54:09.512 Yeah. Bye bye.