{"id":46100,"date":"2020-10-22T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=46100"},"modified":"2020-10-22T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:30:08","slug":"pete-rediscovers-the-1984-channel-4-film-c-q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/pete-rediscovers-the-1984-channel-4-film-c-q\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete rediscovers the 1984 Channel 4 Film &#8220;C.Q.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-08.24.48.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46102\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-08.24.48.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-08.24.48.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-08.24.48-300x179.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-08.24.48-768x457.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-22-at-08.24.48-624x371.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/weedsuptomeknees.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Madtone,<\/a> who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was coming home from my tai chi class in the local park yesterday and remembered this play that I watched a long time ago. Please tell me you don&#8217;t know it!<\/p>\n<p>[In] the credits at the end it has another radio connection: the UK reggae DJ (BBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Rodigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Rodigan<\/a>. Great eh?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;Life changes dramatically for radio amateur Norman when he gets in touch with a round-the-world yachtsman who introduces him to a different life &#8211; and a taste of fame.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RL4VWJMU_q4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Pete! I was not at all familiar with this TV Movie, but I absolutely<em> love<\/em> the nostalgia factor!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post readers:<\/strong> Anyone familiar with &#8220;C.Q.&#8221;&#8211;? Do you remember watching it when it was first broadcast in 1984? Please comment!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, \u00a0Pete Madtone, who writes: I was coming home from my tai chi class in the local park yesterday and remembered this play that I watched a long time ago. Please tell me you don&#8217;t know it! [In] the credits at the end it has another radio connection: the UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,305,43],"tags":[8897,4102,7455,5506,34],"class_list":["post-46100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-c-q","tag-ham-radio","tag-pete-polanyk","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bZy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44148,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/radio-lavalamp-broadcast-on-july-12-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":46100,"position":0},"title":"Radio Lavalamp broadcast on July 12, 2020","author":"Thomas","date":"July 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Pete Madtone who shares the following announcement from Radio Lavalamp: Can you pass the ham radio test? 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