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Starting on BBC Radio 4 Extra today a repeat of Bodgers, Banks and Sparkes, the team that would go on to create Absolutely. First broadcast on Radio 4 on 11 April 1986 buff.ly/ErOP4cc

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One can only assume it was a case of Yes, Yes Nanette

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OTD last year changes at Scala Radio (now Magic Classical) with the final shows for Mark Forrest, Sam Hughes and Richard Allinson

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OTD last year changes at Scala Radio (now Magic Classical) with the final shows for Mark Forrest, Sam Hughes and Richard Allinson

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I spotted that BBC Radio 4 has been recording Round Britain Quiz at Walworth Castle this week. From the Radio Times October 1985 a reminder that there was a resident London team of Irene Thomas & Eric Korn pitted against each region #RBQ

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The 'Listen In' exhibition at the Weston Library of the Bodleian is mentioned in Paul's last podcast and is the subject of this Sunday's Between the Ears on BBC Radio 3 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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The 'Listen In' exhibition at the Weston Library of the Bodleian is mentioned in Paul's last podcast and is the subject of this Sunday's Between the Ears on BBC Radio 3 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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News that the Yorkshire radio legend Tim Jibson has passed away. From 1972 onwards presenter at BBC Radio Humberside, Viking, KCFM & Beverley FM plus running Adventures in Radio. Perhaps best known for the Humberside show 'The Paull Hunsley Electric Wireless Show' RIP Jibbo

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To mark the centenary of his birth BBC Four is, for the first time, repeating an interview with Harry H. Corbett tonight at 9pm. First broadcast on BBC2 Saturday 18 February 1967 as part of the Acting in the Sixties series https://buff.ly/3QiUI2m

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To mark the centenary of his birth BBC Four is, for the first time, repeating an interview with Harry H. Corbett tonight at 9pm. First broadcast on BBC2 Saturday 18 February 1967 as part of the Acting in the Sixties series https://buff.ly/3QiUI2m

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One of the radio casualties on Friday was the closure of the Capital Cymru service for north Wales. Here's the opening and closing links from Alistair James, Lois Cernyw, Cerian Griffith & Kev Bach youtu.be/Y1Nzd0Y4xFg

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Busy radio day tomorrow. On 6 Music Nick Grimshaw on breakfast & Lauren Laverne is back. Rob Ellis on Radio X 90s & Darren Parks on the Smooth Sanctuary. Rick Jackson joins Radio Solent. Sarah Devine joins Capital Dance and on GHR 60s Stephanie Hirst spins the hits on vinyl

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This day last year Paul Gambaccini presents the final BBC Radio 2 show from Wogan House. The BBC had occupied Western House since 1953 with Radio 2 & 6 Music moving in from 2006. Re-named Wogan House in 2016

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This day last year Paul Gambaccini presents the final BBC Radio 2 show from Wogan House. The BBC had occupied Western House since 1953 with Radio 2 & 6 Music moving in from 2006. Re-named Wogan House in 2016

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Clue fans, if you missed it tonight's #Mastermind on BBC Two included a specialist round on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Now on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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This week 40 years ago BBC1 launched a new globe and #EastEnders. Co-creator Tony Holland introduced the characters in Albert Square for the Radio Times #EE40

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Long before Top Gear there was, on BBC radio, Motoring and the Motorist (1953-77) with journalist Bill Hartley. My July 2012 blog post on Bill and the programme https://buff.ly/4aVt2tP

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This week 40 years ago BBC1 launched a new globe and #EastEnders. Co-creator Tony Holland introduced the characters in Albert Square for the Radio Times #EE40

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Today BBC Radio 4 Extra is repeating a 1950 episode of The Adventures of PC 49 written by Alan Stranks. Producer Vernon Harris and PC Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby's girlfriend Joan, played by Joy Shelton are interviewed in this 1982 documentary Dick Barton and All That

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Today BBC Radio 4 Extra is repeating a 1950 episode of The Adventures of PC 49 written by Alan Stranks. Producer Vernon Harris and PC Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby's girlfriend Joan, played by Joy Shelton are interviewed in this 1982 documentary Dick Barton and All That

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If you enjoyed the 'Concorde: The Race for Supersonic' documentaries on Channel 4 this week here's a 1989 edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Going Places' with Clive Jacobs on the 20th anniversary of Concorde https://buff.ly/4jSF2Aj

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After 35 years of broadcasting it was the Anne Marie McAleese's final You Place and Mine on BBC Radio Ulster this morning www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Long before Top Gear there was, on BBC radio, Motoring and the Motorist (1953-77) with journalist Bill Hartley. My July 2012 blog post on Bill and the programme https://buff.ly/4aVt2tP

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"Oh, Mr Horne. How bona to vada your dolly old eek!" The life of Kenneth Horne (who died this day in 1969) remembered in my 2019 Radio Lives blog post https://buff.ly/41dez9c

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Tonight at 22.40 BBC Four is repeating the first Wogan chat show when it went out thrice-weekly from 18 Feb 1985. Guests are Elton John, Tina Turner, Wendy Richard & Rory Bremner https://buff.ly/412bnft

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How BBC Wales brought back the Computer Originated World (COW) ident before last night's EastEnders vimeo.com/1056578810

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Tonight at 22.40 BBC Four is repeating the first Wogan chat show when it went out thrice-weekly from 18 Feb 1985. Guests are Elton John, Tina Turner, Wendy Richard & Rory Bremner https://buff.ly/412bnft

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"Oh, Mr Horne. How bona to vada your dolly old eek!" The life of Kenneth Horne (who died this day in 1969) remembered in my 2019 Radio Lives blog post https://buff.ly/41dez9c

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More on this from TVB Europe www.tvbeurope.com/live-product...

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How BBC Wales brought back the Computer Originated World (COW) ident before last night's EastEnders vimeo.com/1056578810

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"This, for the very first time, is Boom Rock." This day last year @nickyhorne.bsky.social launches Boom Rock from @boomradio.co.uk with the time-honoured words for opening a new station youtu.be/wmY4pLEuEl8

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"This, for the very first time, is Boom Rock." This day last year @nickyhorne.bsky.social launches Boom Rock from @boomradio.co.uk with the time-honoured words for opening a new station youtu.be/wmY4pLEuEl8

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If you enjoyed the 'Concorde: The Race for Supersonic' documentaries on Channel 4 this week here's a 1989 edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Going Places' with Clive Jacobs on the 20th anniversary of Concorde https://buff.ly/4jSF2Aj

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One year ago generations of listeners and the whole radio industry were stunned as this news broke

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Latest blog post on a natural history radio quiz it's likely you've never heard of, Give Us A Conch (1985-87) chaired by Paddy Feeny. All the info & recordings of two editions here https://buff.ly/42M2nO7

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A decade before Desert Island Discs there was Marooned with a Gramophone. BBC Western Region 9 July 1932

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Latest blog post on a natural history radio quiz it's likely you've never heard of, Give Us A Conch (1985-87) chaired by Paddy Feeny. All the info & recordings of two editions here https://buff.ly/42M2nO7

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A decade before Desert Island Discs there was Marooned with a Gramophone. BBC Western Region 9 July 1932

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Yes, BBC Radio 3 really did play Napalm Death this morning

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If like me you grew up watching Thunderbirds, The Saint, Department S & The Persuaders then tonight's Archive on 4 on BBC Radio 4 promises to be a delight as it investigates the programmes of Lew Grade's ITC company

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Latest podcast from Twenty Thousand Hertz on 'Radio Station Jingles: 80 Years of Earworms'

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Radio birthdays today (2/2). Happy Birthday to Colin Berry. From 2017 my audio tribute to Colin on Radio 2 www.mixcloud.com/andy-walmsle...

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Radio birthdays today (1/2). Happy Birthday to Tony Blackburn. My 2013 audio tribute to Tony youtu.be/YfRoy_XK4vc?...

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This day in 1979 BBC Radio 2 goes 24 hours a day as Colin Berry presents the first edition of You and the Night and the Music. Here he chats to Ray Moore before the first show youtu.be/RUlS1iUVhEE

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This day in 1979 BBC Radio 2 goes 24 hours a day as Colin Berry presents the first edition of You and the Night and the Music. Here he chats to Ray Moore before the first show youtu.be/RUlS1iUVhEE

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On the 60th anniversary of the death of Winston Churchill my latest blog post looks at the relationship between him and the BBC during the 1926 General Strike. Includes audio of a 1990 radio drama The Churchill Years https://buff.ly/4aCZgde

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On the 60th anniversary of the death of Winston Churchill my latest blog post looks at the relationship between him and the BBC during the 1926 General Strike. Includes audio of a 1990 radio drama The Churchill Years https://buff.ly/4aCZgde

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