Matt’s Kind of Podcast

Recently, Richard delivered a large number of memorabilia items from the late superfan Harry Carruthers's archives. This month, they look at some items from the collection and also discuss the most recent Matt Monro digital releases.  

This month, in a bumper triple-length 90-minute episode, Richard and Michele speak to Matt Monro Jnr about his life, career, and, of course, memories of his father.

How close were Michele and Matt Jnr as children? 

How long did Matt survive at his first school?

How did he begin his career as a singer, and why did he stop?

These questions and many more are answered and argued over in this month's episode!

The first of what will eventually be an examination of Matt's recording career, starting with his first recording with the Harry Leader Orchestra in 1955, through to just before he won his recording contract with Parlophone in 1960. With clips from rare recordings and a detail you may not have noticed from his Decca LP. 

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This week, Michele and Richard welcome DJ & Presenter Diddy David Hamilton as our guest, talking about his life and his love of Matt Monro.  

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This month, Michele is in full rant mode about last month's Eurovision Song Contest, after which we get down to Matt Monro business and his links with Cliff Richard and some 60s BBC Pop radio shows. 

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This week Michele and Richard discuss Eurovision links with Lulu and the European Broadcasting Union's attempts to track down the missing 1964 Song Contest featuring Matt, alongside other organisations such as Film is Fabulous and the Radio Circle, who do such great work in helping collectors or their families deal with collections which might otherwise be destroyed. And how you can easily get conned trying to recover material, if you're not careful.

Please note that due to someone carelessly blowing up an oil tanker very close to Michele's house, which took out all her broadband and landline services (which still isn't restored a month later), Michele's data signal - routed through her phone - wasn't brilliantly stable and meant that the odd sentence gets a little bit garbled. Blame  Openreach for taking their time!

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This month, Michele and Richard try to dispel some of the myths and legends about Matt's life and have a bit of fun along the way. Not only that, through the miracles of modern technology, they chat with the late Dave Allen with a long-lost clip from a TV Show not heard for 58 years.  

Listen to the end to hear Richard make a bit of a fool of himself, too!

This month, in a special extended episode, Michele and Richard are joined by the fabulous Anita Harris, who discusses her career, her friendship with Matt, and her memories of working with him.

On the month that marks 41 years since we lost Matt, Michele and Richard discuss a range of subjects, from the new release of the enhanced Araneta Coliseum concert from 1966, through birthdays, including Rouelle Carino, the Water Rats, and singing in a foreign language. We also find out a little bit of what Richard is currently up to. 

Matt has his say, too 

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This month Richard and Michele speak to actor, singer and all-around Matt fan Sam Kane. As well as discussing Sams connections to Matt and Michele we discuss his career and the spookier side of things with Sams more recent encounters with Matt and Dean Martin.