{"id":23115,"date":"2015-07-24T14:23:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T13:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=23115"},"modified":"2015-07-24T21:44:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:44:32","slug":"the-national-this-weekends-tv-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-national-this-weekends-tv-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"The National: This Weekend&#8217;s TV Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/culture\/the-weekends-tv-highlights.5525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/culture\/the-weekends-tv-highlights.5525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"thenational15a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/thenational15a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a>This new show invites you to \u201ctrip the neon fantastic\u201d and celebrate the best hits of the 1980s \u2013 and when they\u2019re asking you to do that along to a soundtrack of the Pet Shop Boys\u2019 Always On My Mind, how can you say no?<\/p>\n<p>Eighties stars like Toyah Willcox, Tony Hadley, Martin Fry and Marc Almond all feature, reminiscing about shoulder pads, eyeliner and making pop history.<\/p>\n<p>The show, narrated by the annoying Zoe Ball, has commissioned a poll to determine the nation\u2019s favourite 80s tune, but really the poll is superfluous. It was surely just a hook on which to hang this glittery coat of nostalgia, giving the channel an excuse \u2013 and a mighty good one, in my opinion \u2013 to pull out some clips of all the old songs and wallow in how gloriously flamboyant pop music used to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/culture\/the-weekends-tv-highlights.5525\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The National \u2013 This weekend\u2019s TV highlights<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new show invites you to \u201ctrip the neon fantastic\u201d and celebrate the best hits of the 1980s \u2013 and when they\u2019re asking you to do that along to a soundtrack of the Pet Shop Boys\u2019 Always On My Mind, how can you say no? Eighties stars like Toyah Willcox, Tony Hadley, Martin Fry and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,7],"tags":[1366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23124,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23115\/revisions\/23124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}