S1 Ep876: Laser 558, launch - 1984
Laser 558 was one of the last influential mass-market pirate stations to serve the UK. Its influence quickly helped to move a still traditional UK commercial sector towards a back-to-back music policy: 'never more than a minute away from music'. Until Laser, extended segues on UK radio were rare, as were female voices on slick music radio: Jessie Brandon on Laser became one of Laser's best know...
2m May 21, 2014
2m
S1 Ep875: RadioMoments Review 16th May2014
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 r...
7m May 16, 2014
7m
S1 Ep874: June Spencer - The Archers
For a long-running soap opera to boast the same actor for over sixty years is a real accomplishment. When the Archers pilot episode was aired on the Home Service in 1950, 'Peggy Perkins' appeared, played by June Spencer. She was paid £12 for her work in the first five episodes. Over the decades the character became Peggy Archer and then Peggy Woolley. June popped out the series, returning as an...
3m May 10, 2014
3m
S1 Ep873: RadioMoments Review 9th May 2014
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 r...
7m May 08, 2014
7m
S1 Ep872: Tony Blackburn speaks about Alan Freeman award - 1996
This is from the heart. Tony Blackburn speaks on Capital Gold the morning after he witnesses Alan Freeman receiving his Music Industry award in 1996 for 'outstanding contribution to the British Music Industry'. (Thanks, Ellis Feaster)
3m May 07, 2014
3m
S1 Ep871: Heart - is coming
May 2014 - and Heart was coming as it expanded once more - to 9.2m listeners in all. Here, hear the day before on three of the services.
2m May 07, 2014
2m
S1 Ep870: RadioMoments Review 2nd May 2014
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 r...
8m May 03, 2014
8m
S1 Ep869: Any Questions - First Edition - 1948
Frank Gillard's name is often cited in the context of pioneering BBC ventures. Making his name as a war correspondent, he is credited too with pushing against the tide to ensure the safe arrival of BBC local radio. Any Answers on BBC Radio 4 is also one of his concepts, hatched during his time in office as head of programmes for the BBC in the West. As a fan of programmes away from the 'artific...
9m Apr 25, 2014
9m
S1 Ep868: Final Noel Edmonds breakfast show - 1978
It's tough being second. After bright-eyed Blackburn made Radios 1's inaugural headlines, it's easy to see Noel simply as 'the guy the followed'. But that would be wholly unfair, Noel's spell on breakfast was memorable and top-notch, and for the medium of populist UK music radio which was still finding its place, it was instinctive, creative brilliance. In his five years on air the show evolve...
1m Apr 25, 2014
1m
S1 Ep867: RadioMoments Review April 25th 2014
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 r...
6m Apr 24, 2014
6m
S1 Ep866: Tony Blackburn with Eddie Mair
As Tony Blackburn learns that a second Lifetime Achievement Award has been bestowed upon him, he earns an even bigger accolade. An interview on Radio 4 by Eddie Mair. (April 2014)
4m Apr 22, 2014
4m
S1 Ep865: Monty Modlyn - Tribute
Not many presenters end up on Capital and Radio 4. Monty Modlyn was one such presenter. This cheeky Cockney roving reporter began his media career in press, before making his debut on Forces radio. On the BBC, his home was Cockney Cabaret in 1949, on the General Overseas Service, and Cockney Capers in the mid 50s. He was later heard on Radio 4's 'Start the Week' and also in the more cheery ear...
1m Apr 18, 2014
1m
S1 Ep864: RadioMoments review 18th April 2014
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 r...
6m Apr 17, 2014
6m
S1 Ep863: Peel plays Teenage Kicks - twice
It’s a well know fact that John Peel rather liked ‘Teenage Kicks’ by the Undertones. So much so, he played it twice in a row on his show, as heard here in September 1978. Little did he know that Undertones vocalist, Feargal Sharkey, would later emerge as a Member of the Radio Authority, commercial radio’s 90s regulator. I suspect John has been one of the few jocks to play the same song twice a...
1m Apr 15, 2014
1m
S1 Ep862: RadioMoments Review 11th April 2014
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 r...
7m Apr 11, 2014
7m
S1 Ep861: RadioMoments Review 4th April 2014
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 r...
7m Apr 03, 2014
7m
S1 Ep860: RadioMoments Review 28th March 2014
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 r...
7m Mar 28, 2014
7m
S1 Ep859: Muriel Young - Tribute
A Radio Luxembourg name, Muriel Young was one of the few early women broadcasters, joining the station in 1961. She'd been part of the launch team at Associated Rediffusion TV, and went on to work with Southern and Granada TV. 'Auntie Mu' died in March 2001.
1m Mar 22, 2014
1m
S1 Ep858: RadioMoments 21st March 2014
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 r...
6m Mar 22, 2014
6m
S1 Ep857: Steve Allen - Medley
It's often said that presenters are inimitable. Steve Allen truly is. His name may be common - his act is not. He greeted me on my first day as MD of LBC in 2007; showed me to my office, sprawled on the black leather sofa and regaled me with stories about every single person I might bump into. I suspect he's lost count of all the bosses he's had over the years; and he's survived them all. St...
3m Mar 15, 2014
3m
S1 Ep856: Anna Raeburn - Medley
Some broadcasters are better because life has not been altogether kind to them. Like many, Anna Raeburn has had her fair share of ups and downs in life, which equipped her well for listening to the problems of others. She made her broadcasting name on Capital with 'Anna & The Doc' where, for the first time, one could truly talk about the most intimate matters on-air. London's teenagers relished...
4m Mar 15, 2014
4m
S1 Ep855: RadioMoments 14th March 2014
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 r...
7m Mar 14, 2014
7m
S1 Ep854: RadioMoments 7th March 2014
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 r...
6m Mar 08, 2014
6m
S1 Ep853: The Bay - launch
The Bay was one of the stations created through the enthusiasm of the new Radio Authority as they sought to fill in holes on the map and add stations in notable towns on the edge of larger TSAs. It served Furness, the South Lakes, and North Lancashire - all around Morecambe Bay. Hear here the station being launched by the Captain of the Royal Navy Submarine HMS Vanguard at Barrow, Commander Jim...
4m Mar 06, 2014
4m
S1 Ep852: BBC CWR - extra faders open during the news
Why is is when faders are left open, or studios which should not be live are live, it's at exactly the wrong moment? Sadly, it's happened to most of us. Witness this news bulletin on BBC CWR on 3rd March 2014. And the apology which followed. One gets the feeling the newsreader was not listening off-air. Would that have made things worse or better?
1m Mar 03, 2014
1m
S1 Ep851: RadioMoments 28th Feb 2014
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 r...
6m Feb 25, 2014
6m
S1 Ep850: Simon Mayo - First Radio 1 Show
Tuesday lunchtime on Radio 1 was something special. Back in the day, it was the moment when the fresh new chart was unveiled; the delivery of which was of crucial importance to long-haired teenagers gathered round their trannies in playgrounds across the UK. So not really a great show on which to make one's national debut. Simon Mayo managed it. Hear here as he delivers his first link on Brita...
1m Feb 23, 2014
1m
S1 Ep849: RadioMoments Review 21st Feb 2014
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 r...
5m Feb 22, 2014
5m
S1 Ep848: Les Ross returns to Free Radio in Birmingham
On the 40th anniversary of commercial radio in the Midlands, Free Radio (Birmingham) celebrated by inviting Les Ross, one of BRMB’s biggest stars onto the Foxy & Giuliano breakfast show. One listener seized the opportunity to call in to claim a prize she’s won in 1975 – and never received.
2m Feb 19, 2014
2m
S1 Ep847: NHR - Nottingham Hospitals Radio 1977
As ILR grew, hospital radio was a key training ground. Many shy young things joined up so they might acquire a little of the skills for grown up radio, and hopefully do a bit of good too. Hear here the 1977 Station Controller of NHR, Nottingham Hospitals Radio, Barrie 'James' talk of the service on its third birthday. The piece is peppered with some of the presentation from back then. The inte...
13m Feb 18, 2014
13m
S1 Ep846: RadioMoments 14th Feb 2014
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 r...
6m Feb 13, 2014
6m
S1 Ep845: LBC goes national - 2014
Talk is tougher than it sounds. For commercial radio to achieve any audience up against an established hugely well-resourced BBC is quite a feat, not least with the costs of delivering the format well. LBC has, at last, mastered it again in London, with a distinctive mix of personality-led news-based conversation. After having appeared on some regional digital multiplexes outside London, which ...
4m Feb 11, 2014
4m
S1 Ep844: RadioMoments 7th Feb 2014
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...
6m Feb 07, 2014
6m
S1 Ep843: Close of Radio City - 1967
In the 60s, a flotilla of pirate radio ships floated out to the North Sea to bring pop music to a 60s Britain. Some stations, though, hopped onto things other than ships. Screaming Lord Sutch alighted on Shivering Sands Towers to create, maybe predictably, Radio Sutch. The towers were seven miles off the Kent coast and had been built for Forces' use in World War II. Radio Sutch became Radio Cit...
5m Feb 06, 2014
5m
S1 Ep842: PIccadilly Group bought by Transworld - News bulletin 1989
Radio stations moved quickly from being untradeable independent local companies, owing to strict regulation, to hot commodities. Realising that a more cohesive network would facilitate real progress in national airtime sales and significant operational efficiencies was a real driver to speedy consolidation once the rules were lessened. By the late 80s, stations were beginning to cluster locall...
1m Feb 04, 2014
1m
S1 Ep841: RadioMoments Review 31st Jan 2014
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 week...
7m Feb 01, 2014
7m
S1 Ep840: BBC Radio Brighton, launch - 1968
Famous for accommodating a young Des Lynam, BBC Radio Brighton came on air on Valentine’s Day 1968. Its launch was theatrical, as befits this dusty glamorous seaside town, with the voices of Dora Bryan and Laurence Olivier. Like several BBC stations, it agonised about City and County, adopting the Radio Sussex call-sign, before becoming part of Southern Counties radio, and then back to BBC Suss...
5m Jan 29, 2014
5m
S1 Ep839: John Whitney reflects on Capital and the IBA
John Whitney’s career in commercial radio was a fascinating one. Having campaigned for ‘local radio’ for many years, he ended up applying for the original London commercial radio franchises. And losing. He was quickly picked up by Capital, where he was appointed its first MD. Later, he was to be a sensible regulator in the days when it was not that simple so to be. In this 2013 audio, John refl...
27m Jan 28, 2014
27m
S1 Ep838: Greenwich Pips - History and present from 'Inside Science'
The familiar sound of the Pips was first heard on British radio in January 1924, following lobbying by the Astronomer General, Frank Dyson of the then BBC DG, John Reith. They’re no longer transmitted from Greenwich, nor are they really on time if you’re listening on DAB or online, but they remain a key part of the sound of British radio. Some further background in my blog here. (https://david...
8m Jan 26, 2014
8m
S1 Ep837: Two Strangers & a Wedding - BRMB 1999
As stunts go, this was a biggie; and still remembered to this day. 'Two Strangers and a wedding' ran in the UK on Birmingham's BRMB in 1999, having begun its life the year before in Australia in the hands of Absolute & Dowse. The UK couple, Greg Cordell and Carla Germaine, who'd spoken just the once in the course of the contest, exchanged vows and walked off with a huge prize package. They rem...
3m Jan 24, 2014
3m
S1 Ep836: RadioMoments 24th Jan 2014
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 week...
6m Jan 23, 2014
6m
S1 Ep835: Dad's Army - John Snagge
Dad’s Army, unlike Man about the House, is one of those TV sitcoms which just keeps being repeated. They don’t like it up ‘em. Sadly it was not one of the impressive programmes which began on radio and transferred to TV, it was the other way round. It also made a film and a stage show. But don’t panic. The television series lasted for nine years from the first episodes in 1968. Some episodes w...
1m Jan 21, 2014
1m
S1 Ep834: RadioMoments review 17th Jan 2014
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 week...
7m Jan 16, 2014
7m
S1 Ep833: Forth - Launch
1975 – and the first breaths for the second commercial station in Scotland, and the tenth in the UK. With a diverse early shareholding, Radio Forth launched on 22nd January; and like so many other stations in history, its chairman quite fancied saying the opening words, albeit they were delivered with both professionalism and passion. Richard Findlay, formerly from Capital’s newsroom and BBC S...
4m Jan 16, 2014
4m
S1 Ep832: Saturday Club with Brian Matthew - 1962
The BBC did not do too much in the way of ‘pop music programming’ in the 50s; but some of what it did do was impressive. Particularly when one listens back now to the big names who happened to pop by.  ‘Saturday Club’ began life in June 57 as ‘Saturday Skiffle Club’ with Brian Matthew, dropping the ‘Skiffle’ a year later. Hear, here, the programme’s fifth anniversary edition. Note the conversat...
8m Jan 13, 2014
8m
S1 Ep831: RadioMoments Review 10th Jan 2014
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 week...
7m Jan 10, 2014
7m
S1 Ep830: 'BBC Radio 4 News FM' in 1991 - 'Scud FM'
It was addictive listening. Rolling news coverage from a land far-off, during the ‘first’ Gulf war of 1991, as military action against Iraq began. Such was the British interest level, the BBC rose to the challenge of coverage with the creation of a second Radio 4, run by Jenny Abramsky. ‘Radio 4 News FM’ provided a rolling news service, following the four hour midnight news bulletin on the 16t...
5m Jan 07, 2014
5m
S1 Ep829: Alvar Lidell - Tribute
His was the voice of War. And eventually of Victory. The BBC’s Birmingham operation was his first port of call, as a chief announcer, although like so many even now, he was transferred to London shortly afterwards. By 1937, he was deputy chief announcer. On 3rd September 1939, Alvar Lidell’s voice was heard delivering the news of the ultimatum to Germany from 10 Downing Street before later in...
2m Jan 05, 2014
2m
S1 Ep828: Radio 4 mammoth continuity - in extremis. Arlene Fleming
It's happened to us all. When things just do not go quite to plan. Great broadcasters know what they will do in extremis. They have a plan. But it still gets the pulse racing. Witness this, at 1800 on January 4th 2014 as the BBC Radio 4 news fails to arrive! Well done, Arlene Fleming. The trails are edited down here. The whole episode lasted a painful yet professional nine minutes!
6m Jan 04, 2014
6m
S1 Ep827: 2013 Radio Obituaries
In memory. Just some of those radio figures we loved and lost in 2013
2m Dec 31, 2013
2m