Radio Moments - Clips

Radio Moments - Clips

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  • 1111: Radio 4 Woman's Hour - 70th anniversary
    As this conversation confirms, the thought of ‘Woman’s Hour’ as a programme title would likely be unthinkable nowadays, but the BBC has wisely stuck with it since it launched on 7th October 1946.
    Why was the first presenter a man – Alan Ivimey? Why did WH move to mornings? How have the changes in women’s lives been reflected over the years? In this special New Year edition of the programme, Jenni Murray chews over the last seventy years of a programme which began on the Light Programme, then on Radio 2 before moving to Radio 4 in 1973. Jenni speaks to two former editors, Sally Feldman (1990-1997) & Jill Burridge (2002- Nov 2011); and two historians, Juliet Gardiner and Kate Murphy who also produced the show for over a decade until 2011.
    43 min
  • 1110: Bob Hopton - in conversation with John Foster on BBC Tees

    Bob Hopton was famously the programmer who brought Les Ross back to Birmingham to front what became its defining breakfast show. Bob was a pioneer in the early days of UK commercial radio, when the industry was full of real characters. He launched Radio Tees in 1975 after a spell at the BBC.

    Here, he’s in conversation with John Foster on BBC Tees. (Audio courtesy of of John)

    37 min
  • 1110: Bob Hopton - in conversation with John Foster on BBC Tees
    Bob Hopton was famously the programmer who brought Les Ross back to Birmingham to front what became its defining breakfast show. Bob was a pioneer in the early days of UK commercial radio, when the industry was full of real characters. He launched Radio Tees in 1975 after a spell at the BBC.
    Here, he’s in conversation with John Foster on BBC Tees. (Audio courtesy of of John)
    37 min
  • 1109: Kinnock 'kebabbed' by Naughtie on World at One - 1989

    This is delicious. Heard again of late as part of the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of BBC Radio 4’s ‘World at One’ or WATO as it’s become known.

    James Naughtie bagged an interview with Neil Kinnock, then Labour Party leader, just before the programme went to air in May 1989. Neil, now Lord, Kinnock was a little tetchy at the time, having arrived hotfoot from an NEC meeting – an experience he confessed amounted to ‘sitting on a cactus in my swimming trunks’. At the end of his tether, Neil explodes on a persistent Naughtie question. The exchange was never broadcast at the time, but was retained – and leaked.
    Later here, the two are reunited and - with mutual good nature and respect - enjoy recollections of the day.

    4 min
  • 1109: Kinnock 'kebabbed' by Naughtie on World at One - 1989
    This is delicious. Heard again of late as part of the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of BBC Radio 4’s ‘World at One’ or WATO as it’s become known.
    James Naughtie bagged an interview with Neil Kinnock, then Labour Party leader, just before the programme went to air in May 1989. Neil, now Lord, Kinnock was a little tetchy at the time, having arrived hotfoot from an NEC meeting – an experience he confessed amounted to ‘sitting on a cactus in my swimming trunks’. At the end of his tether, Neil explodes on a persistent Naughtie question. The exchange was never broadcast at the time, but was retained – and leaked.
    Later here, the two are reunited and - with mutual good nature and respect - enjoy recollections of the day.
    4 min
  • 1110: Bob Hopton - in conversation with John Foster on BBC Tees
    Bob Hopton was famously the programmer who brought Les Ross back to Birmingham to front what became its defining breakfast show. Bob was a pioneer in the early days of UK commercial radio, when the industry was full of real characters. He launched Radio Tees in 1975 after a spell at the BBC.
    Here, he’s in conversation with John Foster on BBC Tees. (Audio courtesy of of John)
    37 min
  • 1109: Kinnock 'kebabbed' by Naughtie on World at One - 1989
    This is delicious. Heard again of late as part of the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of BBC Radio 4’s ‘World at One’ or WATO as it’s become known.
    James Naughtie bagged an interview with Neil Kinnock, then Labour Party leader, just before the programme went to air in May 1989. Neil, now Lord, Kinnock was a little tetchy at the time, having arrived hotfoot from an NEC meeting – an experience he confessed amounted to ‘sitting on a cactus in my swimming trunks’. At the end of his tether, Neil explodes on a persistent Naughtie question. The exchange was never broadcast at the time, but was retained – and leaked.
    Later here, the two are reunited and - with mutual good nature and respect - enjoy recollections of the day.
    4 min
  • 1108: Alan Freeman's last Pick of The Pops on Radio 1 - 1992

    This audio will forever sound great. Alan Freeman on his final Radio 1 ‘Pick of the Pops’ show in 1992. "Oh, yes - and his tears were falling. All right?"

    He’d arrived at the BBC via the Light Programme in 1960, presenting the brilliantly-titled ‘Records Around Five’ show. The programme was to call upon the tune which became his trademark: "At the Sign of the Swingin' Cymbal", although it took some years even for Fluff to choose to hit the posts with utter perfection. By late 1961, Pick of the Pops had been installed as part of a Saturday evening show called Trad Tavern, becoming a show in its own right by 1962. By 72, Fluff had become part of Radio 1’s daytime roster.

    Alan left for BBC to work for Capital, returning to Radio 1 in January 1989 and restoring Pick of the Pops to its former glory until this final edition on 27 December 1992. Both the show and Fluff were to return to Radio 2 five years later. (Thanks to Richard White (@RMWhite21) for sending on the audio)

    25 min
  • 1108: Alan Freeman's last Pick of The Pops on Radio 1 - 1992
    This audio will forever sound great. Alan Freeman on his final Radio 1 ‘Pick of the Pops’ show in 1992. "Oh, yes - and his tears were falling. All right?"
    He’d arrived at the BBC via the Light Programme in 1960, presenting the brilliantly-titled ‘Records Around Five’ show. The programme was to call upon the tune which became his trademark: "At the Sign of the Swingin' Cymbal", although it took some years even for Fluff to choose to hit the posts with utter perfection. By late 1961, Pick of the Pops had been installed as part of a Saturday evening show called Trad Tavern, becoming a show in its own right by 1962. By 72, Fluff had become part of Radio 1’s daytime roster.
    Alan left for BBC to work for Capital, returning to Radio 1 in January 1989 and restoring Pick of the Pops to its former glory until this final edition on 27 December 1992. Both the show and Fluff were to return to Radio 2 five years later. (Thanks to Richard White (@RMWhite21) for sending on the audio)
    25 min
  • 1108: Alan Freeman's last Pick of The Pops on Radio 1 - 1992
    This audio will forever sound great. Alan Freeman on his final Radio 1 ‘Pick of the Pops’ show in 1992. "Oh, yes - and his tears were falling. All right?"
    He’d arrived at the BBC via the Light Programme in 1960, presenting the brilliantly-titled ‘Records Around Five’ show. The programme was to call upon the tune which became his trademark: "At the Sign of the Swingin' Cymbal", although it took some years even for Fluff to choose to hit the posts with utter perfection. By late 1961, Pick of the Pops had been installed as part of a Saturday evening show called Trad Tavern, becoming a show in its own right by 1962. By 72, Fluff had become part of Radio 1’s daytime roster.
    Alan left for BBC to work for Capital, returning to Radio 1 in January 1989 and restoring Pick of the Pops to its former glory until this final edition on 27 December 1992. Both the show and Fluff were to return to Radio 2 five years later. (Thanks to Richard White (@RMWhite21) for sending on the audio)
    25 min

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