Most public information films from the 1970s were designed to scare you to death in order to prevent you from doing something the government thought silly. However, this week’s ‘Charley says’ focuses on a relatively unique public information film – one that recommended the best way to kill yourself.
Let the lovely Michael Palin talk you through the worst ways of ending it all, before revealing the one that’s largely guaranteed to work – it probably won’t be the one you were thinking of.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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