Growing Up With Vince & Jeremy
We grew up in the UK from 1970 to 1990. This show is all about the two of us looking back and putting bits of our shared past under the microscope, from the early ‘80s ‘Protect and Survive’ /Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear panic, to the theme music from The Incredible Hulk; from Wimpy Burgers to wimpy Orac from Blake’s 7; from the Falklands War to Falco’s Rock Me Amadeus. We look back with fondness and bafflement and sometimes with abject disbelief at what life was like when we were growing up.
Growing Up With Vince & Jeremy
S02E01 Surrounded and Confounded by Statistic Facts (Yorkshire Ripper 1975 - 1981 / Son of My Father by Chicory Tip (1972) / Summer of 1981 Royal Wedding, Riots, 'Botham's Ashes'
We're back for a second series!
This time round, in a packed episode, Vince recalls the grim and disturbing culture of the mid '70s to early-'80s when a maniac stalked the north, dropping bodies and running rings round the police: The Yorkshire Ripper. How prevalent was blatant prejudice towards sex workers? Did the 'Wearside Jack' tape send the investigation down a blind alley? Vince tries to make it all make sense as he works through his chronic anxiety about 'the north'.
We pause for a jolly bit of pop from Chicory Tip, with their baffling and Moog-tastic 1972 UK No 1 hit single 'Son of My Father'. Let's get those weird early '70s glam rock haircuts back in style!
Jeremy looks back at the summer of 1981, which was momentous for several reasons: he was in Chicago (the US city, not the soft rock band); there was a (doomed) Royal Wedding; 'Beefy' Ian Botham, super-charismatic cricket all-rounder, ran away with The Ashes; and there were race riots in several major cities. "This town... is coming like a ghost town..." Now you've got that in your head, haven't you? And believe me, it'll hang around for days.
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