S1 Ep981: AM Drive Colin Blunstone & Jim Steinman
10m Jan 15, 2015
10m
S1 Ep980: Radio 1 5am Opener 1987
In the days when radio stations were not twenty four hours, they had the daily task of opening up each morning. For some, it was a single jingle and off they went. Others made a song and dance about it. If you were a paper boy in the late eighties, or a rival breakfast show host, you may have awoken to this jingle medley on Britain's favourite, Radio 1. Thanks to Neil Rudd for sending me the ...
5m Jan 12, 2015
5m
S1 Ep979: BBC's 1st woman commentator - Olga Collett
Women on-air at the BBC were relatively rare in its early days. The tale is often told of the first female newsreader, Sheila Borrett, who was moved from the task after three months in the wake of bags of adverse mail, the majority written by women. In truth, the BBC was probably ahead of many organisations in those days, trying to push women forward to appropriate opportunities. Olga Collett ...
29s Jan 11, 2015
29s
S1 Ep978: RadioMoments 9th Jan 2015
Another fond look back to this week in radio history, for the week ending 9th Jan 2015, as heard at the end of the week's RadioTalk podcast from Radio Today.
6m Jan 08, 2015
6m
S1 Ep977: Death of Sir Winston Churchill
To this day, radio stations have procedures poised for responding to major events or significant deaths. In the case of commercial radio, these were even prescribed by the regulator until the 90s. Now, alongside the necessary news coverage, it’s a case of simply responding with the right tone rather than switching quickly and wholly to ‘obituary mode’, although sensible stations still have eve...
3m Jan 05, 2015
3m
S1 Ep976: UK Radio Aid - 2005
It's not often that all commercial radio groups and stations unite. They did on Monday 17 January 2005 for 'UK Radio Aid', raising money for the victims of the Asian Tsunami. All usual output was dropped in favour of a 12 hour show dedicated to the cause, live from Leicester Square with some regional opt outs. It was aired on 268 radio stations, including the national Classic and Virgin, amass...
8m Jan 02, 2015
8m
S1 Ep975: BBC Empire Service - Arabic
Broadcasts to the World from the UK seem a fairly logical idea, but without the early persistence of John Reith, they may never have occurred quite to promptly. He steered and launched what was originally the BBC Empire Service in 1932, immediately realising its significance: "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the desert, or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them". Its si...
11s Jan 01, 2015
11s
S1 Ep974: 2014 - Radio Farewells
Just a few of those names the radio world lost in 2014. Christopher Chataway. Olympic runner, who established commercial radio as Minister for Posts and Telecommunications, later LBC chairman. Derek Cooper. Host of Radio 4’s The Food Programme for 22 years Jocelyn Hay. Tireless campaigner. Founded the Voice of the Listener, prompted by prospect of Radio 4 changes, later became Voice of Liste...
2m Dec 28, 2014
2m
S1 Ep973: Tommy Vance - 1st BBC Top 40 - Jan 1982
It must be tough taking over from the guy who’s stuck a million on the audience, and whom the nation seems to adore. Tommy Vance had to, as he replaced Tony Blackburn and the chart got serious on 10th Jan 1982. Here for the first time, meaningful music nuggets were injected into the music flow as the deep voice of TV assumed Sunday night BBC Top 40 duty. Charts are much tougher than they seem...
16m Dec 23, 2014
16m
S1 Ep972: A Comedy of Danger - 1st play written for radio - 1924
Radio seems a natural medium for the play, or maybe it doesn’t. The first to be commissioned especially for the wireless in Britain was ‘A Comedy of Danger’, aired in January 1924. The playwright was 23 year old Richard Hughes: “I was asked by the BBC, in January of 1924, to write a play for effect by sound only, in the same way that film plays are written for effect by sight only”. The produ...
1m Dec 22, 2014
1m
S1 Ep971: Tony Blackburn's last Top 40 on Radio 1 - 1981
Some last shows are bitter, some professional. Some fail to mention the end, others allude to it obliquely. On this final Tony Blackburn Top 40 on Sunday 27th December 1981, he covers off the issue at the front, and then again more fully, after Duran Duran ( maybe deliberately a nod to his infamous Durren Durren intro), when he cleverly implies the question: "why have management taken a present...
14m Dec 20, 2014
14m
S1 Ep970: RadioMoments Review - Christmas Bumper edition 2014
A festive edition of the RadioMoments review. A fond look back to the Christmas week up to new year in radio history. It's a bit longer than usual. A veritable bumper edition. A little like the Radio Times. Mind you, that's quite another story http://davidlloyd-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/90-years-of-radio-times.html
12m Dec 17, 2014
12m
S1 Ep969: RadioMoments Review 19th December 2014
Another fond look back to this week in radio history, for the week ending 19th December 2014.
7m Dec 17, 2014
7m
S1 Ep968: Commonwealth Games Radio launch
4th March 2002
2m Dec 13, 2014
2m
S1 Ep967: RadioMoments review 12th Dec 2014
Each week, the Radio Today podcast features interviews and content from the world of radio at https://audioboom.com/channel/radiotodayThat 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, fo...
6m Dec 13, 2014
6m
S1 Ep966: 'Sounds Good' on Radio London from 1983 - jingle documentary
There’s no shortage of features on programmes about radio jingles. From the lengthy discussion on Radio 4’s Midweek featuring Jon from JAM to Tony Blackburn on Radio 4 explaining why Radio 1 really should not give up sung jingles. And what of the many stations which chose to air the famous JAM jingle song in full. I’m no stranger to this jingle crime, having featured in several late night lengt...
14m Dec 09, 2014
14m
S1 Ep965: Final John Peters programme on Radio Trent 23rd Sept 1988
Last shows, if you're allowed to do them, are usually really good or really bad. Enjoy here the last John Peters breakfast show on Radio Trent in Nottingham. He's been a regular on the show off and on for 13 years, and had been the voice who'd launched the station in July 1975. John was off to the new GEM.AM on the AM frequencies on which Trent had squatted. Enjoy here the old John UBN sound,...
16m Dec 06, 2014
16m
S1 Ep964: Radio 1 Pepper Tanner jingles
One purely for the jingle anoraks here. Radio 1's Pepper Tanner stuff, late 60s into the 70s. Some great cuts here, but I am sure most would concede that just maybe they are not the best name-checks ever. Enjoy some brass work parts at the end.
10m Dec 06, 2014
10m
S1 Ep963: RadioMoments Review 5th December 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 Dec 06, 2014
6m
S1 Ep962: RadioMoments 28th November2014
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 Nov 29, 2014
7m
S1 Ep961: Joyous Jingles
Fourteen sparkling minutes of festive jingles. Whatever the format, whoever the production company, Christmas is a time when idents can be the most fun and undeniably indulgent. After all, if you can’t jingle at Christmas, when can you? MVO: "Anoraks will be able to identify each jingle house on this cracker of a medley: from Alfasound's tinsel to the WB Tanner brass; from fruity JAM to that t...
15m Nov 25, 2014
15m
S1 Ep960: Coke radio soap 'Claudia' - episode first aired on Christmas Eve in 1924
Having used print since 1885, Coke embraced the new medium of radio by the 1920s. A singer called Jessica Dragonette became ‘Vivian, the Coca Cola Girl’ on WEAF in New York. Through the next three decades and long before McCann-Erickson created the famous musical spot ads, Coke sponsored all manner of entertainment shows. Just like the detergent manufacturers whose sponsoring of soap operas l...
13m Nov 24, 2014
13m
S1 Ep959: Attack on RNI ship - 29th August 1970
Radio Northsea International (RNI) was the most dramatic of the offshore pirate stations. Born at a time when Radio 1 was established, but commercial radio was yet to come from a cautious Government, the station powered out from its colourful ship, the Mebo II. The law was not its only adversary, as can be heard here, from 29th August 1970. A business dispute ended up with visits to the ship f...
14m Nov 20, 2014
14m
S1 Ep958: RadioMoments 21st Nov 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 Nov 20, 2014
7m
S1 Ep957: Century 106 - Promo 1999
1m Nov 20, 2014
1m
S1 Ep956: Mark Goodier's final Top 40 - 2002
A music charts hit their 50th anniversary, Mark Goodier was in the BBC Radio 1 Sunday night chart seat. Hear this flawless presentation, as he whizzes through the Top Ten for his final time in 2002. Mark hosted the Top 40 twice (1990-1992 and 1995-2002). Hear, here the chart styles collide. The functional ‘up one….and down two’ short links still exist, in part using traditional foreground powe...
14m Nov 18, 2014
14m
S1 Ep955: Wheaties - the first sung jingle in a radio ad - 1926
Jingles on radio stations and within commercial ads are now part of life. They were once a new idea. The first sung advertising jingle is said to date back to 1926, aired on WCCO in Minneapolis- St. Paul on Christmas Eve. The product was 'Wheaties', from General Mills, a range said to be on the verge of extinction, rescued by this distinctive radio ad campaign. The vocal sound was barbershop, ...
1m Nov 16, 2014
1m
S1 Ep954: RadioMoments November 14th 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 Nov 14, 2014
7m
S1 Ep953: The first Top 40 on Radio 1 - 1978
For a generation, the BBC chart was part of growing up. A Sunday night ritual. You knew from Tuesday lunchtime's news which songs had gone up and down, but one had to wait until Sunday to hear them in full - and in stereo, given the AM-only Radio 1 borrowed Radio 2's FM frequencies for the show. There were no rival chart shows, as commercial radio had just begun and its separate 19 proud indep...
15m Nov 13, 2014
15m
S1 Ep952: Radio Normandy
4m Nov 08, 2014
4m
S1 Ep951: RadioMoments Review 7th Nov 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 Nov 08, 2014
8m
S1 Ep950: BBC Radio Birmingham becomes BBC WM in 1981
2m Nov 03, 2014
2m
S1 Ep949: Voice of Arthur Burrows - who presented 1st ever news bulletin
The first 'news bulletin' was heard on 14th November 1922 on 2LO; the day the early stations were handed over to the newly amalgamated British Broadcasting Company. It was delivered at 6.00 and 9.00 p.m. by the director of programmes, Arthur Burrows, was instructed to read each bulletin twice - once quickly and once slowly - before asking listeners to say which they preferred. There was a pause...
10s Nov 01, 2014
10s
S1 Ep948: RadioMoments Review 31st Oct 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 Oct 31, 2014
7m
S1 Ep947: RadioMoments 24th October 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 Oct 24, 2014
6m
S1 Ep946: Vera Lynn - Sincerely Yours
1m Oct 19, 2014
1m
S1 Ep945: Radio 2 - Clocks don't quite go back for Autumn GMT 2013
23s Oct 19, 2014
23s
S1 Ep944: RadioMoments Review 17th October 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 Oct 18, 2014
8m
S1 Ep943: Hirsty on BBC Radio 4 Today
7m Oct 16, 2014
7m
S1 Ep942: Hirsty on 5 Live - 2014
On 11th October 2014, the huge broadcaster from Barnsley told Stephen Nolan on BBC 5 Live about her gender dysphoria. In so doing, Hirsty helped others to make their own tough decisions - there is no doubt opinion has shifted and understanding has grown since this broadcast which, at the time, was to surprise listeners and colleagues.
45m Oct 11, 2014
45m
S1 Ep941: BBC Radio Oxford, launch - 1970
BBC Radio Oxford launched on October 29, 1970. Station Manager, Donald Norbrook, kicked things off, followed by the Lord Mayor enjoying being a DJ. The first programme, with Keith Salmon, deployed the title which just had to be used: 'Oxford Circus'. Bill Rennells, later at Radio 2 from 1978, was on news duty.
27s Oct 11, 2014
27s
S1 Ep940: RadioMoments review 10th Oct 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 Oct 09, 2014
8m
S1 Ep939: Finest Peter Allen moments of 5 Live Drive
3m Oct 05, 2014
3m
S1 Ep938: End of last Peter Allen Drive show on 5 Live
8m Oct 05, 2014
8m
S1 Ep937: RadioMoments Review 3rd October 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 Oct 05, 2014
8m
S1 Ep936: Coke Commercial 1965 - Tom Jones
American radio and ads seem to go together better than UK radio and ads. Maybe because they started in earnest half a century before. Having used print since 1885, Coke embraced the new medium of radio by the 1920s. A singer called Jessica Dragonette became ‘Vivian, the Coca Cola Girl’ on WEAF in New York. Through the next three decades, Coke sponsored all manner of entertainment shows. By 1...
1m Sep 25, 2014
1m
S1 Ep935: RadioMoments review 26th September 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 Sep 25, 2014
7m
S1 Ep934: BBC Third Programme launch
It’s simplistic to presume that the BBC Third programme transformed itself neatly into today’s Radio 3. As the BBC re-assembled domestic broadcasting after the War, it vowed to create a ‘Third’ channel ‘when frequencies could be found’, in addition to the Home Service and the new Light Programme. What is amazing is that such plans were being assembled with such care in such a timely manner, as ...
13m Sep 23, 2014
13m
S1 Ep933: RadioMoments Review 19th Sept 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 Sep 20, 2014
7m
S1 Ep932: Kate Smith - medley
Radio fundraisers are commonplace, but try this one for size. In its time, the biggest ever. During the dark days of War, America was selling its war bonds – a device to cut the amount of money in circulation, reduce inflation and fund the War. With the goal, accordingly, to persuade hard-up Americans to part with yet more cash, media and celebrity were called upon to sway the public mood. A ...
2m Sep 16, 2014
2m