Radio Moments - Clips

Some of Liverpool's radio stations breaking the news of the Hillsborough verdict in April 2016.

Pete Price, who's seized the mood of his City so many times in his years, opens his programme on the night of the Hillsborough verdict in April 2016.

A station's closure is always sad. High hopes dashed, usually when the money fails to flow through the door in sufficient quantity to pay the milk bill.

Gwent Broadcasting (GB Radio) launched from Newport, South Wales in 1983, promoted by one of those thin flex-discs through letterboxes. After a period of financial difficulty, it closed in April 1985 and the transmitters relayed neighbouring Red Dragon from Cardiff. The two stations then formally merged.

Alongside Centre in Leicester, these two stations were the key casualties in ILR's early expansion.

Another fond look back to this week in radio history, with clips and memories, for the week ending April 22nd 2016,.

This weekly series is also featured at the end of the week's Radio Today podcast.

Fascinated by the new local commercial station in his home town of Bradford in the ‘70s, Roger was eager to play his part in that young Pennine Radio. The BBC then swiftly called, taking him first to Lincolnshire and then to BBC Radio Northampton, where his voice delivered the station’s first news bulletin.

In this edition of ‘Conversations’, Roger Mosey tells of his rise through the BBC ranks, from Editorship of PM and Today through to heading BBC 5 Live, running the highly-regarded Olympics coverage and taking his place around the BBC top table in what turned out to be its most challenging spell.

Speaking from his new home, as the Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, this is the Roger Mosey story - in his own words.

Roger’s book ‘Getting Out Alive’ is an insightful read - and available now, published by Biteback.