Radio Moments - Clips

TEAMtalk 252 was based in Leeds. Its huge Irish transmitter and facilities were bought from RTL for £2m, having been used by the influential Atlantic 252 until December 2001.

Launched in March 2002, TEAMtalk was to last for just five months, having attracted around half a million listeners.

A format of sports talk, phone-ins and discussions ruled, in the hands of the likes of Jon Meek, Jon Newcombe, Mike Cunliffe George Riley and Jamie Broadbent.

Amidst financial pressure and disagreement about acquisitors, the station closed on July 31st 2002, with the legendary James H. Reeve signing off.

Each week, the fine Radio Academy podcast features interviews and content from the world of radio at http://www.radioacademy.org/podcasts/.

The Academy podcast concludes with a slice of audio memories from the radio week in history, as they invite me to assemble a weekly compendium of my daily #radiomoments tweets @davidlloydradio, with audio and narrative.

Here's just that #radiomoments weekly review on its own, for the week ending 25th July 2014, without the sensible interviews and discussion.

This audio is now also heard at the end of the excellent weekly @radiotoday podcast http://audioboo.fm/channel/radiotoday

In 67, Tony Blackburn was given the show he was born to host: the Radio 1 breakfast show. It amassed huge audiences, with no UK commercial radio, and very few remaining pirates.

Almost six years later, the Blackburn smile faded as his show was awarded to his colleague Noel Edmonds, in June 1973. The 9.00 handovers were compulsive listening, given the Nation knew that, through the smiles, Tony felt that this bearded interloper had stolen his crown. In truth, in so many different ways, both were truly, truly brilliant.

Much water has flowed under many bridges, so how lovely to hear this conversation, aired on a networked BBC Local Radio shows on the night of Tony's 50th anniversary in radio.

Radio found its place during World War II in so many ways. From providing reassurance and company to dispensing vital information; from boosting morale to spreading propaganda.

The many American Forces personnel stationed in the UK, accustomed to vibrant US radio, were a little perplexed by staid Auntie BBC, even its General Forces Programme, which was doing so much to provide for the needs of our own troops. As the number of Americans grew, it was clear a dedicated service would be required, and if the BBC did not aid its provision in the UK, then the Americans would do it for themselves.

The American Forces Network (AFN), went on air on July 4th, 1943, on 50 transmitters in the UK, with BBC co-operation. As squabbles broke out between the varying demands of the audiences, and the various factions of the broadcasters, it was clear a more structured solution was necessary.

On June 7th 1944, on 1050 kHz AM, (later 583), the Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme began, broadcasting from Broadcasting House. Famously, the childish yet eerie tune ‘Oranges and Lemons’ was adopted as its call-sign, played on a nova-chord.

There was an introductory announcement by Franklin Engelmann, who was later to be the first host of ‘Pick of the Pops’, followed by a prayer and a news bulletin. ’Rise & Shine’ followed, co- hosted by Ronnie Waldman.

Drawing on programmes from across the World, this service lasted just 14 months, closing down on July 28th, 1945. Enjoy here Ronnie saying a few valedictory words, a slice of memories of the service and then the final words from the impeccable Margaret Hubble, who was later to host the BBC’s Woman’s Hour in the 1950s

A moment of history, and no media captures the way it feels quite like radio.

'The Conservatives have been demolished’, announced John Humphrys on the 'Today Programme' on Radio 4 on the morning of 2nd May 1997, as Tony Blair swept to power in Labour’s biggest Parliamentary majority in history, ending almost twenty years of Conservative rule.

Each week, the fine Radio Academy podcast features interviews and content from the world of radio at http://www.radioacademy.org/podcasts/.

The Academy podcast concludes with a slice of audio memories from the radio week in history, as they invite me to assemble a weekly compendium of my daily #radiomoments tweets @davidlloydradio, with audio and narrative.

Here's just that #radiomoments weekly review on its own, for the week ending 18th July 2014, without the sensible interviews and discussion.

This audio is now also heard at the end of the excellent weekly @radiotoday podcast http://audioboo.fm/channel/radiotoday

February 1987. ILR was still very worthy, but maybe taking itself a little less seriously. Here's a mid morning show of mine from Trent. An interesting selection of music, and I am not awfully sure I was sticking to the format.

Witness the lengthy, worthy, yet useful, Careline community bulletins followed swiftly by lengthy news bulletins, read here by Mike Blair who has gone onto much bigger things in TV news. And a call which I am itching to edit, listening back now, but I am decades too late.

I'm not sure this would have been a profitable month for the mighty Trent, judging by the absence of proper commercials. A national Ariel washing powder one, voiced by the BBC's Jimmy Young; and a great TellyDisc ad voiced by Alan Freeman, which I know was a PI deal (where the client pays per item sold).