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Denzel Dominique's avatar

I hope for a future where thousands of people work in a kind of European Restoration industry, searching out pre-Rainbow documents, film, photography, literature, etc. and recreating life as it was - the opposite of 1984's Records Department; going into the memory hole and undoing the censorship, the uncreation, the falsification we're living through. I can imagine Woes as the maverick genius who pioneers the whole project, raising public awareness of what was lost, going to King Morgoth for funds, and then recruiting idealistic young men and women for the great work.

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Ralph Blunsom's avatar

A great shame, and thank you for acknowledging the loss.

You introduced me to Manhunt and The Guardians, both which I love, so in your own small way have been an archivist of these lost treasures by occasionally eulogising these forgotten shows.

Hopefully another company will come along and take up the reins, so that future generations can still witness a time when British television actually made honest, articulate and intelligent work.

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