hah.... just remembered... In 1980 or 81 I wrote an essay for the very competitive application procedure for what at that time was the prestigious Coventry Poly Communications degree. The essay subject was concerning the values and problems of public service TV broadcasting. That was at a time when we only had the BBC and ITV, and home video recorders were still a novelty status symbol... btw.. how did I get on...??? Weeks prior to the interview, I was hitching down from Bradford, and decided to drop off and spend an afternoon in Coventry City Centre to have an informal look at the Poly. I found the area so overwhelmingly depressing I gave up on it and went to Bristol Poly instead.. .. where I met the mrs...
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