24 February 2001

Saturday

2001-02-24

Publications

 * John Peel's Family Album column in Radio Times.

TV

 * BBC One
 * 9.00 am Live and Kicking Katy Hill, Ortis, Trey Farley and Sarah Cawood welcome Irish megastars Westlife, who perform their brand new song for Comic Relief.
 * BBC Two
 * 8.50 pm I Love the Eighties Continuing the series recalling the fads, fashions and films, and the stars and sounds of the eighties. I Love 1985. Pop icon Grace Jones looks back at the year she made her mark with Slave to the Rhythm. It was also the year when Bob Geldof staged Live Aid, the music event of the decade, in aid of the Ethiopian famine. Wayne Hemingway of fashion label Red or Dead recalls perennial footwear favourite the Doc Marten, Levis ruled supreme, anarchic comic Viz went national and American football made it to Britain on Channel 4.