Square Peg: the Dream of British Satellite Broadcasting

1. E1. Squaring the Circle

   Jul 15, 2016 · 20m

   What satellite TV is and how it came to be, and how BSB came together.

2. E2. The Square-Off

   Jul 22, 2016 · 18m

   The arrival of Rupert Murdoch and how BSB had no plans at all for competition until they got some - which was loo late.

3. E3. Hollywood Squares

   Jul 29, 2016 · 21m

   How motion pictures became the front for a war that would leave both BSB and Sky in critical condition.

4. E4. Square Eyes

   Aug 5, 2016 · 19m

   The plan to get BSB off the ground before the nineties starts to fall apart, as fights break out over programming and the technology fails to arrive.

5. E5. Out of Square

   Aug 12, 2016 · 21m

   After failing miserably to launch in 1989, BSB picks itself up and limps toward the nineties instead. Including the sixth BSB channel!

6. E6. It's A Square World

   Aug 19, 2016 · 21m

   BSB finally goes on air! Surely all its troubles are behind it now? Of course they are not.

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