Teenage Hague lights up conferenceOn this day in 1977, at the age of 16, William Hague made his first speech at the Conservative Party Conference and achieved national notoriety as the archetypal ‘Tory Boy’.
Blue PeterBlue Peter, the world’s longest-running children’s television programme, was first broadcast on this day in 1958.
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7 December 1969
A dead star is born
The ‘Pet Shop Sketch’, better known as the ‘Dead Parrot Sketch’, was first broadcast on this day in 1969, in the ‘Full Frontal Nudity’ episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Read on...