Continuing our journey through time... from the very first UK chart in 1952... now it’s the turn of the eighties... so much to say and so little time... but... what was happening during November 1982... 30 years to the date after the very first UK chart.

The fourth terrestrial television channel, Channel 4, begins broadcasting, the first programme being the game show Countdown. Also the Liverpool-based soap opera Brookside is shown. Unemployment remains above 3,000,000 people – almost 14% of the workforce.