Radio Moments - Clips

One of the last groups of AM stations came together fully from 1st July 2013, when Bauer fused its Scottish services. Here, enjoy some of the final moments from John McRuvie on Northsound 2 on Friday 28th June. (Thanks to John Collins)

One of the last groups of AM stations came together fully from 1st July 2013, when Bauer fused its Scottish services. Here, enjoy some of the final moments from Bob Malcolm on Forth on Friday 28th June. Bob had been a part of Forth since its 1973 launch. (Thanks to John Collins)

One of the last groups of AM stations came together fully from 1st July 2013, when Bauer fused its Scottish services. Here, enjoy some of the final moments from Mike Riddoch (Riddy) on Clyde 2 Friday 28th June. (Thanks to John Collins)

Famed for its Lamb Bank which found homes for orphaned lambs, as John Myers relates in his biography, BBC Radio Carlisle really knew its place in its area.

The station launched on Saturday November 24th 1973, originally serving the north and the west of the county. A number called 'Good Morning Radio Carlisle', penned by local musician, Ian Kellett, was swiftly followed by 'There's A Coach Coming In', from the musical 'Paint Your Wagon'.

BBC Local Radio in the North of England had taken tentative early steps. The resources for BBC Radio Carlisle rose from the ashes of BBC Durham, which had been the last in the first tranche of BBC stations. Durham enjoys an interesting story. Trials for local radio there, alongside many other short experiments across the UK, had been staged in January 1962. The Durham trial, however, was noteworthy in that it appeared to go a little awry, prompting a timely re-think on how the new stations might be operated.

As the initial stations proper came on-air, in order of both preference and the availability of local authority funding, Durham sparred with Lincoln to be the final one on the list, ready for a launch swinging 60s. Such were the tentative early days of all BBC local stations, Durham was pencilled for closure just a year later, although it lasted until August 1972, a year before the creation of BBC Carlisle.

In May 82, BBC Radio Carlisle was re-named BBC Radio Cumbria, as it could, following the creation of the County of Cumbria in the local government reorganisation of 74. BBC Furness opt-outs were a part of the station for nine years.

Happy 40th, BBC Radio Cumbria

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 22nd November 2013, without the sensible Academy interviews and discussion.

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

There are undoubtedly some key influences in music radio: the Blackburn sound; the Steve Wright sound; and the list goes on. There was certainly too ‘a UBN sound’. UBN being the biscuit factory station which was the training ground for so many early ILR broadcasters, as this new trickle of early stations mined the UK in the 1970s for people who understood contemporary music radio. This well-programmed station was, itself, influenced by the American sound of music radio which was to form the DNA of the more commercially-minded early ILR stations.

UBN was a temporary home for Roger Scott, Dale Winton, Adrian Love, Nicky Horne, Graham Dene, Peter Young and John Peters, who launched Trent on-air in Nottingham in 1975. Students of radio can hear, here, John’s tight UBN delivery, vocal styling and his careful crafting of the ‘sound’, as opposed to the content of radio. The pacing too. Is. Err. Fluff.

Enjoy John here, reminisce on his Trent days, open the station and enjoy the ride, before moving on to launch GEM.AM and Saga 106.6 FM. In fact, There’s only been one fresh commercial station based in Nottingham which he did not open. But he later appeared on it.

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 15th November 2013, without the sensible Academy interviews and discussion.

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

"Sickened and disgusted" were the words of David Jacobs, when windows at the United Reformed Church in Basingstoke, were smashed by those protesting noisily against the appearance of Enoch Powell on the panel of 'Any Questions' in November 1976. Enoch, a controversial former Tory MP, was known for his views on large-scale immigration. Recordings of the Radio 4 programme were suspended for ten minutes.

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 8th November 2013, without the sensible Academy interviews and discussion.

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

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 1st November 2013, without the sensible Academy interviews and discussion.

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