We watch very little TV. My daughter watches CBeebies, which is non-commercial children's programmes from the BBC. She also likes Doctor Who and Scooby Doo; we watch them on DVDs. (Again . . . and again . . . and again . . . children don't seem to understand that adults don't like repetition as much as they do.)

I don't go out to see a film unless it's had excellent reviews and sounds intelligent and different -- in other words, almost never. Sometimes I come across a good DVD. My husband was given the British TV series "Life on Mars" for his birthday and we're both unexpectedly into that, despite us never having been fans of cop shows before.

The radio is never on. I used to listen to BBC's Radio Four (like NPR in the USA) until my daughter got older. I never seem to get the time now. There are a couple of podcasts I listen to when I am not prone to falling asleep while they're playing.

My daughter will be influenced by us, but she will also be influenced by her friends when she is older. That influence can be very powerful for a teenager. The best we can do is equip her to make good choices but we can't control her.

I try to educate my students a bit about pop culture. I've taught media studies. They often don't think about how they are being influenced in subtle ways. But what I do doesn't make a huge amount of difference.

BTW when I think about 70s rock, I think about listening to "classic rock" radio stations in the US. Often I was doing artwork of some kind, or driving down a lonely road somewhere. Good memories. I was a child too and I have no associations of drugs or anything else, I'm looking at it from a different angle. But were people damaged by that culture? I think more than we realise, yes. Many of the hippies of the 60s turned into the breadheads of the 80s, proving that when they tried to find themselves, they found a desire for material possessions. One of my old college professors and his family were great people who were always true to the peace and love values of that time -- I think that can honestly be said about very few people.