Queuing for the bioscope
Once or twice a week.
Pay your threepence, take your chance.
Charlie Chaplin or a nice romance.
Then came the BBC.
Muffin the Mule, Potter’s Wheel.
1953 buy a set
To watch the Queen get crowned.
Coronation Street, EastEnders,
Neighbours from Down-under.
Soaps and soaps and Brookside.
Then there was Four.
Down to the video store
To rent the latest film.
Violence, classics, sport
Star Trek III – Rocky IV
Cable and satellite channels,
More than you’d ever need.
Sports, films, soaps, gold,
24 hours a day.
Every programme ever made
Digital video on demand.
But how do you choose
From a world of choice?
Director’s cuts or direct yourself.
Orwell was so wrong.
Big brother’s not watching you
You are watching Big Brother!