Andrew Collins, sometime Eastenders script writer, Back Row presenter, regular contributor to Top Ten xxx and I Love the 19xx, and now Radio Six DJ has written this entertaining memoir of life growing up.
Based largely on a diary he kept throughout his childhood, this brings homes the minutiae of toys, comics, TV programmes, music and life in general as a child at that time. I’m about five years youger than him, so it isn’t quite the right age for me, but it’s close (and it also demonstrates how just a few years can have quite a significant difference in terms of toys, games and the like, with technology coming on with leaps and bounds).