This one is for older grans…..not ageist honestly!

I think Philip Hagen stuck to cooking. There was Clement Freud too a bit later, looked like a bloodhound !

Yes I think Katy Boyle did advertise Camay.

I don't think my friend's granny was concentrating when the teabags were being demonstrated. Apparently she would snip the tops off and pour the contents into her teapot.

Was Katie Boyle not the original presenter of The Eurovision Song Contest, who impressed us all with her fluency in French so we all learned how to perfectly pronounce "nil points"?

Yes.

V3ra

Not the programme you're asking about Lexisgranny but I can remember watching an afternoon ladies-only chat show called "House Party" on Southern television, I think in the 70s.

Guests rang a doorbell and were invited in, there were ladies demonstrating domestic skills or just chatting in the different rooms of the "house" and drinking coffee.
All very well groomed.

I used to watch it avidly and think how grown up it all seemed 🤣

That’s the one I was thinking of!
Thank you V3ra.
We had Central (nee ATV, I think) and I must have been very young.
Mind you, I remember Ernest Bishop being shot - and I was only four at the time!
Funny the things we remember

Germanshepherdsmum

I think Philip Hagen stuck to cooking. There was Clement Freud too a bit later, looked like a bloodhound !

Yes I think Katy Boyle did advertise Camay.

Freud’s ad for Minced Morsels

Tetley appears to have promoted tea bags in 1953.
The programme?
The presenter?

I can't remember who ever promoted tea bags or thought they were a good idea.

I'm with the Granny who cut them open to put the leaves in the pot.

I still make my tea by puting leaves in the pot but I do buy a packet of tea leaves, I don't cut open teabags.

I wonder how much global warming has been caused over the last fifty years by the manufacture and use of totally unnecessary teabags?

Jimmy Hanley, Jim’s in 1957

No it was definitely Doris Something, that’s one thing I do remember. The programme itself was very low key. When Tetley’s started to advertise their tea bags, I think it was with Lady Isobel Barnett. I must say I have never come across cling film that was so user friendly (ie didn’t scrunch up so easily) and I have never got mine ‘as tight as a drum’!

I dont think Ive ever made tea without tea bags. Far too messy.

Commercial tv started in 1955, so it could be an ITV programme

Was Molly Weir in the radio show ‘Life with the Lyons’ ?

I remember Houseparty. cherry marshall and mary morris. two others I can't remember there names.. some on you tube. 1950/60

NanKate

Was Molly Weir in the radio show ‘Life with the Lyons’ ?

Yes, she was

Biglouis When tea bags came in, I thought the wet used ones looked like little t*rds, and I couldn't bring myself to use them.

I am a little less squeamish now and will use fruit tea bags because they are usually, deep red wine colour when used.

In the early days the purpose of tea bags was to find a use for tea dust and cheaper tea leaves etc, so I stuck to loose tea. I only drink one cup of tea a day, so making it in a teapot with tea, makes a real break mid-afternoon.

I remember my Dad watching Barry Bucknall who had his own DIY show (he had a lot to answer for!) but prior to that he also had a spot on a show called About the Home.

I was a child in the 50s but sadly never got to see TV.
DH and I bought a TV when we got married in 1967, in hindsight I wish we hadn't bothered as programmes were rubbish.

I don't know how far back you are going. Before Barry Bucknell there was a programme which went out on a Saturday afternoon called About the Home host was WPMatthew. It ended when he died in 1956. www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/category/wp-matthew/

I remember we got our first tv when I was around 6 in the 1950s. I believed that the people on the tv could see into our lounge so I always behaved myself and did as I was told when the tv was on !

No TV them mum didn't have the money.

varian

I can't remember who ever promoted tea bags or thought they were a good idea.

I'm with the Granny who cut them open to put the leaves in the pot.

I still make my tea by puting leaves in the pot but I do buy a packet of tea leaves, I don't cut open teabags.

I wonder how much global warming has been caused over the last fifty years by the manufacture and use of totally unnecessary teabags?

Unnecessary to you, maybe! I don’t have milk in my tea (tastes vile to me with milk, which makes me very weird, I know) so a teabag quickly whipped out is essential.

Unless it’s very freshly made, leaf tea in a pot always tastes horribly stewed to me - ILs always had a big pot of ‘stewed’ for breakfast, so I soon learned to take teabags.

Witzend, I haven't had milk in my tea for many years now, and if I do try it with milk it tastes greasy to me. So if that's weird at least you're not weird on your own.

I do disagree about leaf tea in a pot though. It's really a matter of knowing how much and for how long. I do pride myself on my precision tea-making! There was a myth once about "one spoon for each person and one for the pot", which makes the tea far to strong for me; two spoons only for my two-mug glass teapot (with strainer in the lid). That's a reminder that you should use the right-sized teapot – don't half-fill a big pot for all sorts of reasons. Also the water shouldn't be boiling but just on the point of boiling. That extra degree or two is critical, actually boiling water brings out the tannins that make the tea bitter. And for a small-leafed black tea three minutes to brew [mash, steep] should be plenty. After that I pour my tea and put the rest into a travel mug so it keeps hot without sitting on the leaves.

For me, loose-leaf tea will always be better than tea bags, which I have long suspected of harbouring the dust, twigs and mouse-droppings swept from the warehouse floor. Never trust what you can't see!

Yes Katie Boyle did the camay commercials 1987H200 I remember those well

Just a recap, it was definitely BBC, my mother used to remark that it was strange that products were being advertised. It was definitely Sunday afternoons, this would be the only time I would be watching tv regularly with both parents in the afternoon. My father would be working on weekdays and occupied with sport of some kind on Saturday afternoons. The lady was Molly something, but not Molly Weir. There was a man on the programme but I can’t remember anything about him, but I think it was more product based than DIY or anything like that.

I can see it all so clearly in my mind’s eye, but just cannot remember the name, so frustrating!