This post is a collaboration with TV Licensing (a trademark of the BBC), but all thoughts and experiences are my own.
Memorable TV Moments
I don’t know about you but there are TV moments that I can look back on and feel like they impacted me in some way – whether in the short-term giving me the feels kind way or in the longer term, making a difference in life kind of way.
I thought I’d share a few of these moments with you today starting with a bit of a warm and fluffy one.
Interview with Tommy Lawrence
I can’t remember when I first saw the example I’m about to share with you,but I think I saw it on Match of the Day which is a TV show that reminds me of my Dad. The show always makes me smile thinking of my Dad coming home from the pub with a Chinese and settling in to watch it on a Saturday night. He loved his sports and used to watch pretty much any live sport on TV – from Athletics to Snooker and Cricket to Darts.
If you haven’t seen the interview with Tommy Lawrence, then you need to go and Google it because it made me super emotional.
A reporter was interviewing people ahead of the Merseyside Derby and was asking about memories of a specific match when he asked a lovely old man if he recalls a match many years ago between the two teams and the man replied with ‘I do, I played in it’ and has such an excited smile on his face. It turns out that they had stopped Liverpool’s former goalkeeper, Tommy Lawrence, without realising and the pride he had telling them he was part of the match was a lovely moment.
I’ve since seen clips of this many times on social media and always share it with others as it’s just a genuinely heartwarming moment that you can’t help but feel good about and it reminds me in no small way of my Dad who used to get such great pride from telling me about big sporting events that he had been to when he was younger.
One Love Manchester concert
One Love Manchester was a benefit concert and British television special on the 4th of June 2017 in response to the horrific bombing after the singer’s concert at Manchester Arena two weeks earlier. The bombing itself had a huge impact on me as my two were similar ages to the children who were injured or killed – I can’t imagine the pain those mothers felt.
We watched the concert together and it was such a surreal experience, watching a concert with so many good performers that I wanted to enjoy it but at the same time, my heart was breaking at the reason for the concert.
It brought it home to the kids during that concert, while we were sat at home in our living room together, that the world wasn’t always a nice place and that bad things happen for no reason sometimes. I think it took a little of their innocence that night to watch the concert and understand that bad people didn’t necessarily care who they hurt in their battles.
I’m glad that watching together and talking it through allowed me to be there for this realisation with lots of hugs and tissues!
David Attenborough sitting amongst the King Penguins
My Dad used to love a good old David Attenborough documentary and many of my memories of growing up include me sitting on the settee next to him while we watched various documentaries. I was fascinated by some of the scenes we watched and he enjoyed having me watch it with him.
I remember one particular scene where Sir David was sat among around half a million penguins. He was just sitting there in the middle of them and they weren’t bothered about him being there at all. I remember my Dad laughing at how stunned I was at the sheer volume of penguins and shouting to my Mam in from the kitchen to tell her to look at my face.
I do love penguins to this day and can’t see one without thinking of that scene and the feeling I used to get sitting with my Dad watching these documentaries. When he died, we found a stack of David Attenborough videos in a box that he’d hung onto despite not having had a video player to watch them on for years.
Susan Boyle’s Britain’s Got Talent Audition
I remember sitting watching Britain’s Got Talent with the kids every Saturday night when they were younger. It was one of our family traditions that Saturday nights were always family nights where we would all try and be free to spend the time together having a nice tea (usually homemade pizza), playing on the Wii or whatever board game the kids wanted to play and then watching some Saturday night TV.
I’m a little bit ashamed to say that when Susan Boyle walked onto the stage for her audition, we all judged her for the way she looked and discounted her before she started. I remember distinctly saying to the kids, ‘Here’s another one who’s going to be so bad that they’ll be buzzed off in seconds’ and they both agreed.
How wrong we were! I still remember the stunned silence in our living room when she started singing. But you know what? I never miss an opportunity to share a life lesson with the kids, so I turned it around and said I was wrong for judging her just because of the way she looked. I don’t know how much of my little Saturday nightlife lesson stuck with the kids, but it did with me, and I make a conscious effort not to judge based on appearances these days!
I’m sharing these moments as part of the BBC TV Licensing Moments That Connect Us Campaign.
Your TV Licence lets you enjoy a huge range of live TV. It covers you for:
– All TV channels, like BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Dave and international channels – but you don’t need a licence if you only watch non-BBC channels on-
– Pay TV services, like Sky, Virgin Media, and BT – but these are platforms that could have both live and on-demand services
– Live TV on streaming services, like YouTube and Amazon Prime Video
– Everything on BBC iPlayer.
This includes recording and downloading. On any device.
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