S1 Ep726: Noel Edmonds - First week on Radio 1 breakfast
Breakfast shows now are such complicated affairs. Enjoy here the brilliant simplicity of the big 1970s early show on BBC Radio 1. Noel Edmonds during his first week on Radio1 breakfast in 1973. It includes the sound, supposedly, of Dusty Springfield sleeping. Nice mechanic that. Calm and friendly, with few features, and beautifully designed. Those lovely tandem - and half-minute - time checks;...
12m May 30, 2013
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S1 Ep725: Radiomoments Review w/e 24th May 2013
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 weekl...
7m May 24, 2013
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S1 Ep724: Petroc Trelawny - Zimbabwe detention
When something like this happens, the broadcasting fraternity holds its breath. An incident which could have been altogether more serious than it turned out. Petroc Trelawny from BBC Radio 3 was arrested in Zimbabwe in May 2012 on the grounds of supposedly being in the country illegally. His small cell was just that, although his many co-inhabitants treated him well. A few hours after detenti...
4m May 20, 2013
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S1 Ep723: Radiomoments Review w/e 17th May 2013
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 weekl...
7m May 17, 2013
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S1 Ep722: Nigel Farage on Good Morning Scotland 17th May 2013
6m May 17, 2013
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S1 Ep721: Virgin Lebanon - Launch
5m May 15, 2013
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S1 Ep720: Primetime Radio - Ident
13s May 14, 2013
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S1 Ep719: Trent & Leicester Sound 1986-89 promos
Production in analogue days was an exhausting task. These examples of station promotions and are culled from a decaying reel of Racal Zonal. They both sum up the sound of an era; and how inventive producers needed to be in the 1980s to achieve anything more complex than just a voice-over a bit of music. This may bring back memories too: http://davidlloyd-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/producti...
7m May 12, 2013
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S1 Ep718: Trent 945 - Test
Radio Trent (Nottingham)'s franchise area was extended to Derbyshire, given, in a tough climate, the regulator felt a 'small' area like Derbyshire could not support its own station. So a new 'Trent 945' in Derby was launched on 3rd March 1987 to complement 'Trent 999' in Nottingham. This was also effectively one of the first 'brand extensions'. In those days, 'imaging' as a department did not ...
15m May 12, 2013
15m
S1 Ep717: Leicester Sound - Test
So many memories of this crazy place. My blog tells more: http://davidlloyd-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-friendly-leicester-sound.html
3m May 12, 2013
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S1 Ep716: Alan Freeman - 1985 David Lloyd Interview
It's amazing what one finds at the tail end of an old 10.5 inch reel-to-reel spool. Witness here an interview I did in my younger days with Alan Freeman. I blush now listening to this as I imply his career amounts to naff ad VOs and deputising for Kid Kensen. This was 1987, in his Capital days. Fluff was promoting a new oldies compilation album; and that was an excuse for me to talk radio with...
6m May 11, 2013
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S1 Ep715: Radiomoments review 10th May 2013
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 weekl...
8m May 11, 2013
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S1 Ep714: Bob Snyder & Dennis Maitland
1m May 11, 2013
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S1 Ep713: Tony Butler retires - speaking to Tom Ross
7m May 09, 2013
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S1 Ep712: Tony Butler - BRMB
Tony Butler is a truly great example of a particular sort of sports broadcaster, paving the way for many like him. Forthright and direct. Measured theatrical anger, genuine yet never nasty. Loveable at heart. Banter. Listeners would say ‘one of us’. Tony carved out his career in the West Midlands, using his accent and rasping voice to great effect. 'On yer bike'. After a spell in press and on...
7m May 07, 2013
7m
S1 Ep711: Zoe's team on Radio 2
No offence to Zoe, seriously, but count just how many folk appear to be needed 'behind the glass' at the crack of dawn for a Bank Holiday Radio 2 show. We love the BBC; and we applaud Radio 2, genuinely, for so many things. But is there not a case just to look at those purse strings on shows like this? At the very least, I suspect there are a few within the BBC who could probably put a little ...
1m May 06, 2013
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S1 Ep710: Rock Radio, launch - 2008
7m May 05, 2013
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S1 Ep709: Brackley Town Manager on BBC 5 Live
1m May 04, 2013
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S1 Ep708: Everett - Capital in 1973
This is delicious. Natural, relaxed Everett. Ambling away live, largely without the brilliant production which sometimes almost masks his quiet, engaging charm and natural humour. Enjoy him here on a quiet 1973 morning, rattling though an eclectic mix of Classic to Rock, from the daft to the highly-produced harmonies of which he was so fond. And, from Dionne Warwick, a 'nice track from one of h...
17m May 04, 2013
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S1 Ep707: Radiomoments review w/e 3rd May 2013
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 weekl...
6m May 03, 2013
6m
S1 Ep706: Swinging Radio England - Test and Roger Day
It’s very tempting, given a stack of new jingles and a new station to launch, just to put on your best jock voice and play them all on-air one after the other. That’s just what they did as they launched ‘Swinging Radio England’. This station joined the plethora of offshore pirates in May 1966 from the ‘MV Olga Patricia’ ship (later the Laissez Faire, for obvious reasons) anchored in the North ...
4m May 02, 2013
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S1 Ep705: Party leaders greet commercial radio in 1973
As LBC launched in 1973, the party leaders issued goodwill messages for broadcast, not least because this was to be the UK’s first ‘all news' station. Radio 4 had only recently adopted a more newsy approach, following the focusing of BBC network services after the ‘Broadcasting in the 70s’ review. Prime Minister, Edward Heath, gave some fulsome encouragement from the Conservatives. Harold Wils...
2m May 01, 2013
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S1 Ep704: TeamRock - Test transmissions
2m May 01, 2013
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S1 Ep703: Radio 106 (East Midlands) - Launch
Radio 106 FM was the first regional radio station for the East Midlands, an area which enjoys comparatively few stations owing to the lack of available frequencies, largely given its proximity to other big cities. At launch, Investors in Radio owned the outfit, a CLT and Border Television joint venture. Radio 106 FM, ‘Radio for Grown Ups’, was a fairly traditional and older-targeted offering, ...
6m Apr 29, 2013
6m
S1 Ep702: Bob Holness reading IRN in 1975
Whilst Bob Holness is renowned for his TV work, his radio efforts are certainly worthy of note. His career began on that wonderful ‘Late Night Extra’ programme on the BBC Light Programme/Radio 2, before moving to LBC as half of the well-remembered Holness/Cameron partnership. Bob returned to Radio 2; and to the World Service until the late 90s. He died in 2012. Listen here to Bob reading the ...
3m Apr 28, 2013
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S1 Ep701: Radio Tees - Day One phone-in
Many stations have tried one of those ‘call us with your questions’ programmes. Long before social media, here was radio navel-gazing and inviting listeners to come on and listen to the wisdom of station management. Regardless of the station and format, the topics raised appear often to be the same. I have a theory, it’s the same callers ringing each station. Witness here some clipped extracts...
24m Apr 28, 2013
24m
S1 Ep700: Radiomoments Review w/e 26/4/13
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 weekl...
6m Apr 27, 2013
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S1 Ep699: Radio 4 pedantry
2m Apr 26, 2013
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S1 Ep698: 6ST - Stoke's first station - documentary
In the 1920s, a chain of stations were established in key cities, supplemented by smaller relays carrying some opt-out programming. One of the last was in Stoke on Trent, launched on the 21st October 1924; it lasted until 16th May 1931. This was 6ST, on 301.1m medium wave. The format was a serious, yet comfortable mix of music, news and chat, and the appearance of a few ‘aunts’ and ‘uncles’ ut...
30m Apr 24, 2013
30m
S1 Ep697: Radio Veronica - end
To today's radio listeners, flattered with huge choice from around the World, in digital quality, it's probably puzzling that anyone should care about a medium wave radio station crackling into the UK in a foreign language. But in the 60s, they did. Such was the paucity of vibrant pop music radio in the UK, that anything was welcome. Radio Veronica was an offshore radio station that began broa...
1m Apr 20, 2013
1m
S1 Ep696: Thatcher Ding Dong! - Big Top 40
It's interesting that the Ding Dong! controversy (see previous Boo) centred on the BBC chart positions, regardless of the larger scale of the commercial radio chart - The Vodafone Big Top 40. Maybe it's just a 'history' thing. We all grew up to the BBC chart; the commercial chart is, well, a mere thirty years old. Here, for the record, is commercial radio's handling of the same challenge. Unli...
1m Apr 14, 2013
1m
S1 Ep695: Thatcher Ding Dong! - BBC Chart
There are a few occasions when people buy a song to make a point. It happens when a song is banned. It happens when folk try to keep the X-Factor winner off the top of the charts; and it happened, most notably, in April 2013, following the death of Margaret Thatcher. A social media campaign, boosted by broadcast media and the press, led those not awfully keen on Mrs Thatcher's legacy to downlo...
2m Apr 14, 2013
2m
S1 Ep694: RNI - Jamming
RNI, Radio North Sea (Nordsee) International is hailed as the most dramatic of the offshore 'pirate' stations. Probably with good reason. After the first burst of sixties pirates had surrendered to the new UK legislation, only Caroline battled on. She was joined on 23rd January 1970 by test transmissions from a colourful ship called the Mebo II. Under the name of RNI, programmes proper began o...
1m Apr 13, 2013
1m
S1 Ep693: Thatcher calls BBC Radio 4 Today - 1988
Producers on Radio 4 have been known to suggest with a smile that they know the Queen and Prime Minister listen, and they are maybe not too concerned about anyone else. Indeed, PMs have. In 1988, Margaret Thatcher was busy in her kitchen doing the things which people do in kitchens, regardless of whether they are PM or not. She heard some news on Radio 4 and thought she'd chip in. As you do. In...
2m Apr 09, 2013
2m
S1 Ep692: Thatcher - Farmers
6s Apr 09, 2013
6s
S1 Ep691: The New TFM
2m Apr 08, 2013
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S1 Ep690: Kenny Everett - Ode to Richard Baker
3m Apr 06, 2013
3m
S1 Ep689: PM Themes
I adore Eddie Mair. There. The love affair is public. I just shake my head in wondrous disbelief as he allows radio to be the best it can. The pauses. The short, barbed questions: those daggers covered in cotton wool. The deadpan retorts. The potent questions masquerading as statements. The politeness coated with innocent acid. And - the gifted, gifted teasers at the outset. I could go on. He i...
1m Apr 06, 2013
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S1 Ep688: Paul Merton debut on Just a Minute on Radio 4
1m Apr 03, 2013
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S1 Ep687: Kenny Everett - Bum
So short, yet so insightful. At a time when the poor BBC is being harangued from all sides, an illustration from Kenny of possibly the real issue. So many decision makers that decisions are sometimes not taken.
22s Apr 01, 2013
22s
S1 Ep686: Kenny Everett - Driving test sacking package
So many of the greats are sacked now and again. Having been sidelined for making remarks about the lucrative religious programming on the pirate Radio London, Kenny pushed out the boat a little on joining the BBC too. He'd been fairly outspoken in the press on needle-time restrictions and other Radio1 matters, contrary to the terms of his contract, so tolerance from BBC Radio's Managing Direct...
2m Mar 30, 2013
2m
S1 Ep685: Kenny Everett , World Tomorrow sacking - 1966
Many great broadcasters have been sacked at least once. The germ which breeds great creativity is the same one which fails to say 'no' in their ears as they are about to say or do something which might impact adversely on their careers. Kenny's contracts were terminated on a few occasions. In this early classic example from the pirate Radio London, he indicated his annoyance at a religious prog...
2m Mar 30, 2013
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S1 Ep684: Jim Naughtie - cough
17s Mar 30, 2013
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S1 Ep683: 1949 boat race - John Snagge
The 1949 Boat Race. Back then, outside broadcasts were not quite as sophisticated as now. Mind you, here's an event on which they'd been doing commentary since 1927. The commentator here is the great John Snagge, known for his Wartime news bulletins. He's done the Boat Race for years, so is utterly accomplished. Mind you, frankly, one boat looks much the same as another - from a distance. Fol...
29s Mar 26, 2013
29s
S1 Ep682: Brian Tansley on GEM-AM
Award-winning Brian Tansley was a familiar voice on Nottingham's Radio Trent, GEM-AM and BBC Radio Nottingham from the 1970s onwards. With a solid reputation in sports reporting and a love of football, he also relished his music shows. His enthusiasm for and knowledge of 60s music was clear to hear; and he'd never hear a word said against the Shadows. Brian produced all his shows painstakingl...
1m Mar 22, 2013
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S1 Ep681: Harriet Cass - Last bulletin on Radio 4
Harriet Cass utters here her last words on BBC Radio 4, a station she describes as her 'spiritual home'. As you hear her voice, it's clear why. A hand into a glove. That calm edge of beautiful authority which has become the hallmark of the station. Just as Snagge and Lidell created the news-reading genre for radio's first epoque, the likes of Harriet Cass and Charlotte Green have surely carved ...
1m Mar 21, 2013
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S1 Ep680: Moyles - Longest Show
3m Mar 16, 2013
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S1 Ep679: Rosie on BBC WM
Caroline Martin is gifted. Love her. The special relationship she has with callers means that, well, sometimes they say the unthinkable. As heard here on BBC WM.
1m Mar 15, 2013
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S1 Ep678: Nick Bailey on Classic FM launch
A national commercial radio station might have seemed a logical idea, as commercial radio began its tardy arrival in the early '70s. But, having embarked on a local model, many of those City operators became fearful of a national competitor. Eventually, the 1990 legislation permitted it, and the award was made, in accordance with a ‘highest cash bid’ system, coupled with some format pre-determi...
1m Mar 10, 2013
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S1 Ep677: Adrian Love - Medley
Adrian Love, was the son of the accomplished popular musician, Geoff Love. He's best remembered from his time at Capital from 1976, as Anna Raeburn's accomplice on 'Anna and the Doc', and for his work at LBC. He hosted Love in the Afternoon on Radio 2; and Studio B15 on Radio 1. In his later career, he appeared on Classic FM, Jazz FM and BBC Local Radio . His career began on board the pirate s...
2m Mar 10, 2013
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