Radio Moments - Clips

Hosting the Wogan dawn daypart the Monday after his death was always going to be a challenge. A challenge that Chris Evans, Lynn Bowles and Moira Stuart rose to perfectly.

'The announcement' was followed by three hours of an utterly fitting, irreverent celebration of a legend. The programme became, in the words of Chris, 'Terry's final show', with his deep Irish voice popping up when you least expected it, not least in the news intro.

Amidst the laughter, and the torrent of amusing listener tributes, there were moments of sadness and, very nearly, tears. It take a broadcaster of Chris's stature and intuition, and sensitive production, to pull off a show like today's and reflect the Nation's mood perfectly. I suspect Terry looked on from afar today with a knowing smile: 'That's my boy'

Today, 31st January 2016, Radio 2 said goodbye to one of its own. Fittingly, the tributes were the voices and thoughts of listeners.

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I worship Tony Blackburn.

Now, there's really no need for split minute timecheck. But, as ever, he gets away with it. It's just. Well, it's just him. And the nation rightly adores him.

Another fond look back to this week in radio history, for the week ending Jan 29th 2016, as featured at the end of the week's Radio Today podcast.

I loved Week Ending (1970-1998) on beloved Radio 4. The weekly satirical sketch show in which often promising young writers, like Harry Hill and David Baddiel, and great impressionists and actors like David Jason, Jon Glover, Sally Grace, Alison Steadman and Tracey Ullman came together with their humorous take on the week’s news.

Maybe it’s rose coloured spectacles, but the early days were lucky to coincide with a colourful political backdrop, with rich pickings for a show like this. For me, the Healey and Thatcher days were summed up brilliantly by this unique show.

Having launched as part of a tranche of Radio 4 changes as the 70s dawned, many would agree that this father of Spitting Image was right to end in 1998.

Enjoy here an episode from 1990, despatched kindly to me, amongst many other editions by Griff Griffith, just after the shock resignation of Margaret Thatcher

I loved Week Ending on beloved Radio 4 (1970-1998). The weekly satirical sketch show in which often promising young writers, like Harry Hill and David Baddiel, and great impressionists and actors like David Jason, Jon Glover, Sally Grace, Alison Steadman and Tracey Ullman came together with their humorous take on the week’s news.
Maybe it’s rose coloured spectacles, but the early days were lucky to coincide with a colourful political backdrop, with rich pickings for a show like this. For me, the Healey and Thatcher days were summed up brilliantly by this unique show. Having launched as part of a tranche of Radio 4 changes as the 70s dawned, many would agree that this father of Spitting Image was right to end in 1998.