Thursday, 5 October 2017
805 Aids The Facts
First viewed : 27 February 1981
As part of the government's drive to educate the public about the dangers of the AIDS virus, there were a number of programmes on the subject on both the Beeb and ITV on Friday 27 February 1987. ITV had First AIDS or "AIDS - The Variety Show" with Mike Smith introducing various pop stars and comedians to bleat on about the subject for 90 minutes . I suspect a certain Chris Morris may have been watching but we opted for Blankety Blank and Dynasty instead.
The Beeb went for a more succint 10 minute slot after the Nine O Clock News broadcast on both channels . The odd duo of Janice Long and Ian Dury presented the then known facts and half way through Dury memorably demonstrated how to put a condom on an erect penis. It's not known if notorious rock groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster was responsible for the model used but if Dury was the, erm, model he had nothing about which to be ashamed. I remember Sharon, the young junior on our team, remarking how shocked she'd been to see it.
There was a debate hosted by the dreaded Robert Kilroy-Silk on after Rockcliffe's Babies but I went with The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross instead.
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They showed this to some vacuous 'celebriddy' airheads on that It Was Alright In The 80s series recently. Their reactions ran along the lines of 'is this like, a comedy?' No dears, it was a very serious issue at the time *sighs*
ReplyDeleteIndeed so, Mark - I'm just old enough to remember the ads and campaigns to get the feeling that "SEX=DEATH!" - through work experiences, I get the impression people today are a lot more lax about their personal safety in such regards.
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