Square Peg: the Dream of British Satellite BroadcastingA real-life Greek tragedy played out at the dawn of satellite broadcasting.
Squaring the Circle
Jul 15, 2016
What satellite TV is and how it came to be, and how BSB came together.
The Square-Off
Jul 22, 2016
The arrival of Rupert Murdoch and how BSB had no plans at all for competition until they got some - which was loo late.
Hollywood Squares
Jul 29, 2016
How motion pictures became the front for a war that would leave both BSB and Sky in critical condition.
Square Eyes
Aug 5, 2016
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.
Out of Square
Aug 12, 2016
After failing miserably to launch in 1989, BSB picks itself up and limps toward the nineties instead. Including the sixth BSB channel!
It's A Square World
Aug 19, 2016
BSB finally goes on air! Surely all its troubles are behind it now? Of course they are not.
Squared Away
Aug 26, 2016
BSB and Sky teeter on the brink of collapse. They can only survive by joining forces or fighting to the death. Somehow they end up with both.
