Through the Square Window

In January 2026, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White visited the home of comedian, actor, author, artist, television presenter, writer, master of panel shows, medical doctor and - of course - Goodie, Graeme Garden to look back at his life in television.
Our conversation covers the full gamut of his TV career, from Twice a Fortnight through to Star Turn, Bananaman, Bodymatters, The Adventure Game and If I Ruled the World, and via oddities such as the panel show about concepts The Very Idea, Graeme sharing teatime trivia with Nanette Newman on Tell Me More, and appearing on Barry Norman's proto-HIGNFY quiz, Scoop.
Running through all of that is The Goodies; Graeme telling us about the trio's appearances on Top of the Pops, how a strike impacted upon one of their greatest-ever series, why they ended up working with Engelbert Humperdinck, salary discrepancies between the threesome and why the BBC fell out of love with the show.
We really hope you enjoy this episode, and if you would like to contact us, please drop us a line on [email protected]
Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk
This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White present a special extra episode for March 2026.
Our previous instalment looked at shows from March 1979, including Thames TV's The Kenny Everett Video Show. Writer, comedian and actor Barry Cryer, who passed away in 2022, was a key contributor to that series and in 2019, Samira visited Barry at his home to record an interview with him about the programme, intended to run in a future edition of TV Years magazine.
That future edition never transpired, and so we're presenting their conversation for the very first time.
If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on [email protected]
Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk
This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

This month Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White are looking at programmes from March 1979. And they are...
05:39: The BBC's sci-fi saga Blake's 7, and an episode from its second series, 'Countdown'.
24:09: An edition of the documentary series, Man Alive, following a mum, dad and three children through a series of family therapy sessions.
40:23: Star Signs - the Michael Aspel hosted BBC2 panel show, based around astrology, graphology and other means of divining the future. With special guests Joanna Lumley and Peter Cook.
54:58: Thames TV's The Kenny Everett Video Show, featuring The Average White Band, Kiki Dee and David Essex. 
01:12:05: Stay tuned for details about an additional episode coming later in March.
If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on [email protected]
Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk
This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

This month Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White are looking at programmes from February 1969. And they are...
06:00: The pre-Python children's comedy, Do Not Adjust Your Set.
18:39: Civilisation - the groundbreaking BBC2 documentary, hosted and written by Kenneth Clark.
35:56: Saturday Night Theatre, and the play MacNeil, written by Alun Owen and starring Sean Connery.
48:20: Spy thriller Department S, specifically the episode 'One of Our Aircraft is Empty'.
If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on [email protected]
Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk
This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.

HELLLLOOO!!!
And a Happy New Year. This month, Samira Ahmed and Graham Kibble-White are looking at programmes that greeted the New Millennium in January 2000. And they are...
05:07 - Blue Peter's first edition of the year, in which they unearth the time capsule buried on the show back in 1971.
15:33 - The Coronation Street hour-long New Year's Day special, revealing how the residents of Weatherfield rang in 2000.
29:28 - The very first episode of Dom Joly's Trigger Happy TV.
41:35 - The BBC's grand, ill-fated "social" experiment, Castaway 2000.
If you would like to contact the podcast, please drop us a line on [email protected]
Our website is: www.squarewindow.co.uk
This is a Square Window production, with music by Local Teenagers. Podcast logo by Stuart Manning.