Our speaker will be long-standing US member Lainie Petersen, who will deliver a webcast address on The Max Headroom Incident—in which the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked on November 22, 1987, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers. (For the benefit of younger viewers, Max Headroom had his own satirical TV show in the Eighties, billing him as the the world's first computer-generated TV personality, although in fact he was played by actor Matt Frewer, wearing prosthetics and a plastic suit to give the illusion of low-quality video rendering.)

As usual we will be attempting to live-stream the proceedings, very much at the mercy of the pub’s wifi. The link to watch that is https://www.youtube.com/live/KhjunKyixc8.