📺 Kilroy – The Dark Side of the Smiley Face 😵‍ | 1989 BBC One Daytime 😊 ACID HOUSE DEBATE

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🔊 Kilroy – The Dark Side of the Smiley Face
📺 BBC One | 1989

🎧 A rare and explosive moment in UK TV history — this episode of Kilroy dives headfirst into the controversial world of acid house and illegal raves. Featuring passionate debate between politicians, parents, clubbers, and ravers, this show captures the cultural shockwave that swept Britain in the late '80s. The iconic smiley face is at the centre of the storm as moral panic clashes with youth freedom.

🧠 What to expect:
Get ready for fiery arguments, bold fashion, and mainstream media’s attempt to understand (and demonise) the acid house explosion. This broadcast is a cultural time capsule packed with early rave paranoia, media hysteria, and fascinating insight into how the UK tried (and failed) to clamp down on the growing rave scene.

🎯 Who it’s for:
Perfect for oldskool ravers, acid house historians, music documentarians, sociologists, and anyone who lived the era or wants to understand it. If you love rare TV, retro dance music, or the roots of rave culture, this is essential viewing.

🔥 Why you need this:
This isn’t just a TV show — it’s a piece of rave history. It shows how the establishment misunderstood the youth and how music united a generation under strobe lights and warehouse roofs. Watch this and remember why acid house mattered.

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Kilroy was a BBC One daytime chat show hosted by Robert Kilroy-Silk that began on 24 November 1986 and finished on 23 January 2004 after 17 years. Originally called Day to Day, the programme was renamed to Kilroy in September 1987.

The format featured the host moving among an audience made up of experts and members of the public, speaking to them one by one on a different topical or moral issue per episode.

The show was taken off the air in 2004 after Kilroy-Silk made allegedly racist remarks. Kilroy-Silk questioned what contribution Arabs have made to civilisation beyond oil. The Commission for Racial Equality reported him to the police.

The BBC cancelled the show, stating that his views were a threat to the network's impartiality. Kilroy claimed afterwards on the BBC's Question Time that he had been under a six-month investigation when this happened. He stated that his show was cancelled because he was anti-religion, rather than racist. However, panellist Shaparak Khorsandi claimed that his views were about Arabs as a people rather than their religion. Kilroy-Silk had previously claimed to have apologised in 2004. It was rejected primarily because Kilroy-Silk himself twisted his words. Iqbal Sacranie (secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain) claimed that Kilroy-Silk had not retracted his views but skimmed over the apology and changed a few words.

The programme was replaced by Now You're Talking!, which followed a similar format and was presented by Nicky Campbell and Nadia Sawalha. The show was also produced by Kilroy-Silk's production company. Though contemporary reports suggested that his agent had offered the show to Channel 5, the broadcaster did not commission it.
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Chris Paul | Camden Palace, London | 4th August 1989


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Formed in 2007 by Champion Puffa and Livvy, Renegade Radio has broadcast daily on the internet and the FM dial.

Over the years Renegade Radio have showcased live events, from broadcasting live club events from Japan and pool parties in the USA to running the original on air DJ battles and our annual charity event The Long Good Friday, to being the proud host of well established artists in the scene such as Tyree Cooper (Hip-House legend), DJ Trix (Bang-in Tunes), DJ Taktix & Ultravibe (The Way/Dread Bass), Nicky Dimensions (Raindance), Uncle Dugs & MC 5ive-0 (Rinse FM & Kool FM), Wayne Anthony (Genesis 88), Robbie Dee (The Original Detonator), Glenn Aston (Kool FM Midlands / Renegade Radio), DJ Gershwin (Suntribe Records / Renegade Radio), Shockin B (Weekend Rush FM & Kool FM), Manparris (Helter Skelter), DJ Pilgrim (Fantazia & AWOL), and many more.

Renegade Radio plays a diversity of sounds, from Acid House, Old Skool Hardcore & Rave, to Breakbeat Jungle Drum & Bass, Garage, House, Techno and even 1980s pop.

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