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Through the Square Window · Oct 15, 2025 · 50 min

EPISODE 2: October 1990

Welcome, stranger, to episode two of Through the Square Window! In this instalment, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White investigate a selection of UK TV shows that were airing 35 years ago, in October 1990: The TV pilot of cult topical comedy The Mary Whitehouse Experience; an episode on BBC One's teatime consumer affairs programme Watchdog; Anglia Television's sword and sorcery game show for children, Knightmare; and the first ever episode of Twin Peaks. If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on email@squarewindow.co.uk Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

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Welcome, stranger, to episode two of Through the Square Window!

In this instalment, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White investigate a selection of UK TV shows that were airing 35 years ago, in October 1990: The TV pilot of cult topical comedy The Mary Whitehouse Experience; an episode on BBC One's teatime consumer affairs programme Watchdog; Anglia Television's sword and sorcery game show for children, Knightmare; and the first ever episode of Twin Peaks.

If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on email@squarewindow.co.uk

Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk

This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

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