Once you pop, you can't chop

One academic is so outraged by the BBC's decision to axe Top of the Pops that he has been inspired to turn it into a research project.

Phil Jackson, a popular music lecturer at Edge Hill University, says Auntie is failing its youth audience and the nation by giving TOTP the chop.

"Everyone thinks that the best years of Top of the Pops were broadcast around the time when they were 14 or 15. I think it is a shame that future generations may not have a similar cultural icon to look back on," he says.