1970s Christmas

Seamus Heaney's Christmas garland, 1970

"There are all kinds of ways of celebrating Christmas"

"If we drop this we drop a clanger!"

"Today a new pupil has come to join the class... he's only three days old"

"All you need to make a bit of money at this game is a computer, a voice synthesiser, a radio-controlled robot..."

"White Christmas - because it did so much for me"

"I've been doing a bit of Christmas shopping, like a lot of mums, and I've bought some guns"

"Creating moments in movies - this I think is the most important thing"

"Christmas has become very much a television occasion"

"There's a good deal less of the traditional, home-spun entertainment about, but it's still there"

"A time for remembering those less fortunate than ourselves; the ones that society has left behind"

"We children know more about toys than Valerie or Richard"

"They're not entirely sure where he lives, but they're in no doubt that he's going to get their letters"

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