Near and Far / how I was afraid of an early 80s schools geography programme
One of my mother's favourite 'oh lets trot out some old shit story from the past to embarrass Hedonist in front of friends/relatives/girls' etc was my morbid fear of an 80s Geography programme called Near and Far that BBC 2 used to put on in the early 80s. Apparently when I was little, the programme used to come on the TV around lunchtime and the sinister minor key music would scare the living bejesus out of me.

Fast forward a few years and during an evening of nostalgia I looked it up on the internet and found it on TV Cream - the music is still utterly terrifying to this day. Thankfully I am not alone - there seems to be great swathes of people now in their early 30s that have been psychologically damaged by this music.

I can only imagine that it was halloween in the BBC Radiphonic Workshop when they wrote the fucker.

Watch, if you dare: youtu.be/83er9jJjciY

Also: even the countdown music is sinister!
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 8 Apr 2011, 9:46, 2 replies)

Wooah… that was spooky indeed. You're sick
(fatbob pfffft…, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 10:23, closed)

That's nothing, can you remember wordy, from "Words and Pictures" and the space boy one, I'm still freaked out by backwards writing.
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 22:51, closed)