A week or so ago, Shane B asked if I had any 3KZ football with The Captain and the Major. I didn't have any, but searching youtube I found that OZTIGER73 has many football clips worth checking out.  This was one of them with the great "Captain" Jack Dyer with Ian Major.  Check out OZTIGER73 on Youtube.

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Thanks to Bruce P who has requested some Geoff Manion audio.  Geoff Manion had many big interviews over the years, many of which were packaged up by 3AW's David Mann.  I have quite a few of these in my archive. So I will feature more in the future as I lift them from the old BASF reels on which they currently reside.

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Bruce and Phil's Desert Island discs is getting another run here.  Glenn Robbins joined Bruce and Paul Cronin (Paul filling in for Philip).  Of particular interest in this chat was Glenn talking about the time he met Sting.  It's a story you can't miss.

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1988 through to 1990 was an interesting time in Melbourne Radio with many 3AW personalities and 3AK personalities crossing from one station to another.
3AK's bold CBC experiment had failed, as had 3AW's Thinking Person's Radio.
In 1990 Denis O'Kane had taken over the reins of 3AW and initiated the rebuild, in part by taking Ross Stevenson, Dennis Donoghue, Keith McGowan and Margaret Fletcher from 3AK.  3AK in turn finally was sold off and in mid 1990 all remaining staff were all given their marching orders.  This is the first 11 minutes of the last Rob Hicks and Don Chipp program.

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In 1969, Don Rainsford took over the reins of the daily service programs where listeners could call in to seek advice from a vet, lawyer, marriage counsellor, or Martha Gardener, at 12.30 each day.  This left an opening at 1.30pm, Don’s previous timeslot. 

So 3AW introduced Tommy Hanlon Jr with a program called Tommy Hanlon’s Heart Line”.
The idea was simple.  Callers would phone in with a request for something they needed or wanted, each call over the hour would be given a number, and at the end of the show a winner would be announced and their request would be granted. One wish would be granted every day.

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In addition to their top-rating breakfast program, John Blackman and Uncle Roy also recorded a one hour program which aired on the weekends called "Messing About".  
Which is exactly what they did.  Here's a whole program (less music, ads, and news).

Photo Credit: Ash Long 

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Last week I featured Bruce and Phil's "Desert Island Discs" with Don Lane.  
In this interview, Bruce and Paul Cronin (filling in for Phil)  chat with Neighbours legend Ian Smith (Harold Bishop).

It's a lovely chat .  A particular highlight is when Ian tells a fabulous story about the time he met John Cleese.

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A few weeks back we featured Barry Humphries appearring on Margaret Fletcher's program.  I then had a request come through for the time Dame Edna made an appearance with Ernie Sigley.  

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A 3AW footy piece with Bill Jacobs of a big footy punch up incident in April 1989. It's great stuff.

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The title says it all.  Paul McCartney was just one of the legends interviewed by Margaret Fletcher in her time hosting 3AW Afternoons.
Image: Paul in Australia for his 1993 tour. - PaulOnTheRun.Blogspot

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