One Man’s Trash

In the dark days of John Major’s Britain, Channel 4’s Eurotrash took aim at Britain’s relationship with ‘the continent’ and created a low-art surrealist classic in the process.

American socialite Ivana Trump (left) is interviewed by Antoine De Caunes, on the set of the TV programme 'Eurotrash', Paris, France, 3rd October 1996. Ivana is the ex-wife of American businessman Donald Trump. (Photo by Alain Nogues/Sygma via Getty Images)

Eurotrash, which has now been re-issued in its entirety on DVD and is also available to stream, started in 1993 and, initially at least, aired on Friday nights at 10.30 PM on the ever-interesting Channel 4 of the day. It was one of the first programmes to be explicitly pitched at the ‘post-pub’ crowd, or […]

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