Radio Moments - Clips

Radio Moments - Clips

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  • 1091: Plymouth Sound early swap shop & David Bassett
    The old days on commercial radio were just about perfect, so some say. Listening back though, one wonders whether the output of some stations would still have commanded such impressive audiences, had there been anything else decent on FM to choose from.
    Judge for yourself, with this delicious unintentionally hilarious extreme example of the daytime phone fare offered by Plymouth Sound in its early days. A lengthy swap shop, from the days when one gave out one’s phone number on air, delivers a list of things to be swapped from desperate callers. Whether any listener ever on any radio station managed to get exactly what they wanted in exchange for something they didn’t want, we shall never know. And I just wonder whether the woman calling ‘Mr (David) Bassett’ for a ‘grumble’ about ‘jumble’ was Margaret Thatcher. Certainly sounded that way.
    9 min
  • 1090: Plymouth Sound - Test transmission

    The early commercial stations were very individual. Some pounded on the air to claim their rightful territory with the confidence and slickness of the pirates, others teetered into existence with programmes that must have made the IBA’s heart warm.

    Enjoy here the questionable preview moments from Plymouth Sound

    4 min
  • 1090: Plymouth Sound - Test transmission
    The early commercial stations were very individual. Some pounded on the air to claim their rightful territory with the confidence and slickness of the pirates, others teetered into existence with programmes that must have made the IBA’s heart warm.
    Enjoy here the questionable preview moments from Plymouth Sound
    4 min
  • 1090: Plymouth Sound - Test transmission
    The early commercial stations were very individual. Some pounded on the air to claim their rightful territory with the confidence and slickness of the pirates, others teetered into existence with programmes that must have made the IBA’s heart warm.
    Enjoy here the questionable preview moments from Plymouth Sound
    4 min
  • 1087: Chris Tarrant on BBC WM's 45th anniversary

    A rare example of someone who works well on both TV and radio, Chris Tarrant stayed at the top of his game in London for generations, and helped to shape the success of the Capital business for a considerable time. He was arguably a listener’s broadcaster as opposed to an anorak’s favourite, evidence of which is the lack of much enthusiastically-stored archive material.

    The Midlands was close to his heart, from his Tiswas days – and from his time as a teacher before radio beckoned. Enjoy here some great reminiscences of his life in a return to his old stomping ground as he hosted a 45th anniversary programme on BBC WM

    33 min

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Vintage clips from UK radio - and more recent broadcasts of note.