{"id":6841,"date":"2019-02-04T06:35:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T06:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=6841"},"modified":"2019-02-04T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:18:11","slug":"john-burke-golden-pan-awards-and-a-plastic-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2019\/02\/04\/john-burke-golden-pan-awards-and-a-plastic-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"John Burke, Golden PAN Awards and a Plastic Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/John-Burke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/John-Burke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>John Burke, who wrote over thirty titles for PAN under different names, also appeared on the BBC TV programme &#8216;Mastermind&#8217; He got through to the semi-finals as did his wife Jean who was also on &#8216;Brain of Britain&#8217; Thanks to the BBC Genome Project you can find the listings which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2019\/Burke\/BurkeTV.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a> are the listing relating to John and Jean plus of one of his plays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After putting on details for Adam Kay and his well deserved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/golden-pan-awards\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Golden PAN Awards&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/a> I&#8217;ve been updating the page for these awards. The the link can always be found at the top of this page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A while ago I put on three PAN titles which were slightly larger than a paperback and which had plastic covers. I&#8217;ve now added a fourth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2017\/Assorted\/Plastic.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;The Personal Computer Handbook&#8217;<\/span> <\/strong><\/a>but for the the life of me I can&#8217;t work out why you might need a wipe clean book about computing!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Back in the day when I was a real teacher we were the first authority in the UK\u00a0 to have a computer in every classroom including the nursery schools. I&#8217;m not saying there is a connection but a certain computing giant (this was back in 1980) did have it&#8217;s UK headquarters about half a mile away from our Education Department. The company is listed in in the above mentioned book.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tandy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tandy-300x75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tandy-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tandy-768x193.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tandy-1024x258.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tandy.jpg 1308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Burke, who wrote over thirty titles for PAN under different names, also appeared on the BBC TV programme &#8216;Mastermind&#8217; He got through to the semi-finals as did his wife Jean who was also on &#8216;Brain of Britain&#8217; Thanks to the BBC Genome Project you can find the listings which the BBC printed in Radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}