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BBC Radio Norfolk SpecialNexus: Norfolk's Forgotten TV StationNexus down the decades

The University of East Anglia's student TV station was formed at the end of the 1960s.

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Nexus member Ed Goodridge sets up a camera in their studio in the mid-1970s (Photo: David Matthewson)

Ed regularly presented the Nexus News and the music show Sounds Peculiar.

  • An ambitious outdoor recording between the library and the lecture theatres, sometime in the 1970s (Photo: UEA:TV)
  • Nexus's own cameras in their small studio upstairs in University House in the mid-1970s (Photo: David Matthewson)
  • A glimpse inside Nexus's control room in the mid-1970s (Photo: David Matthewson)
  • Nexus member Ed Goodridge sets up a camera in their studio in the mid-1970s (Photo: David Matthewson)
  • Comedian Arthur Smith appeared in several Nexus shows during his time at the UEA in the mid-1970s
  • The classic Nexus logo on an old outside broadcast caption card (Photo: UEA:TV)
  • For much of its existence, Nexus's main method of broadcasting was via a TV in the foyer of University House (Photo: UEA:TV)
  • The equivalent view a few years later, in 1983 (Photo: Mark Hodgson)
  • Even after gaining their own studio, Nexus were still allowed to use the UEA's own TV studio on occasion (Photo: UEA:TV)
  • Nexus members post with a future BBC Radio Norfolk presenter in the early 1980s! (Photo: UEA:TV)
  • A Nexus schedule from January 1981, from the UEA student newspaper of the time, Phoenix
  • Preparing for an episode of Vicious Rumours in 1981 (Photo: UEA:TV)
  • Future BAFTA-winning film director Gurinder Chadha was a Nexus member in the early 1980s
  • A Nexus crew shooting in the university's square in 1983 (Photo: Mark Hodgson)
  • Some of the 1990s Nexus team (Photo: Stuart Campbell)
  • The nineties Nexus team built a new studio at the other end of Union House (Photo: Stuart Campbell)
  • Building the new control room (Photo: Stuart Campbell)
  • The studio in action (Photo: Stuart Campbell)
  • The Nexus logo in studio in the nineties (Photo: Stuart Campbell)
  • Time for the Nexus News! (Photo: Stuart Campbell)
  • One gift from Anglia Television was their old news programme set (Photo: Stuart Campbell)
  • Speaking of size issues, how's this for a backdrop? (Photo: Stuart Campbell)
  • Nexus in action! (Photo: Stuart Campbell)
  • In May 1995, Nexus undertook a pioneering 24-hour broadcast streamed live online
  • Station Manager Stuart Campbell in the Nexus studio in May 1995
  • The Nexus name was retired in 2009, but the station still exists as UEA:TV, now streaming all their shows online

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