S1 Ep931: Local radio experiments
Local radio is a pretty obvious idea. It wasn't always so. The point of it, and its sustainability, had to be proven. Local commercial radio could well have preceded BBC Local Radio, were it not for the efforts of the BBC's former War Correspondent, Frank Gillard. Despite VHF being available for local radio, and recommended for its use by the 1951 Beveridge Report, progress was slow. Evidence ...
4m Sep 12, 2014
4m
S1 Ep930: Last BBC Home Service closedown - 1967
This is delicious. The last words on the station which got listeners through thick and thin. The end of the BBC Home Service as 29th September 1967 drew to a close; ready for the start of Radio 4. David Dunhill was on late continuity duty, and he'd clearly given more than a passing thought to what he might say as he drew the curtains on this powerful station. It's beautifully done, with British...
1m Sep 11, 2014
1m
S1 Ep928: John Grierson speaks - first Manx Radio General Manager
If you bump into anyone with a Manx connection, don’t go banging on about commercial radio starting in 73. You’ll annoy them. The idea for Manx Radio stems back to the 50s, and it came on air on 29th June 1964 - and officially on 23rd November 23rd 1964, with the opening announcement by Lieutenant Governor, Sir Ronald Garvey, who’d been part of the battle to open the station. Richard Meyer an...
4m Sep 10, 2014
4m
S1 Ep927: Pat Sharp - First Radio 1 show
Deputising for Steve Wright on Radio 1 in the 80s was a tough gig, given the scale of the audiences and the reputation of his distinctive approach. When it’s your first show, it makes matters worse. Pat Sharp made his Radio 1 debut in those very circumstances on September 6th 1982. It was, nevertheless, a decent relaxed show, in which he wisely did not try to do Steve’s act. It’s tough to bel...
10m Sep 08, 2014
10m
S1 Ep926: Leicester Sound Promos
1m Sep 06, 2014
1m
S1 Ep925: RadioMoments Review 5th 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...
8m Sep 05, 2014
8m
S1 Ep923: Roger Scott Documentary
Traces of the Roger Scott vocal influence are to be found in so many of the presenters on the most successful of the first generation of UK commercial radio stations. Slightly American, almost self-compressed, a marginally extended s, and utterly slick. To this day, a generation reflects on his seemingly effortless mastery of true music radio - not least at a time when the art in the UK was so ...
1hr 33m Sep 02, 2014
1hr 33m
S1 Ep922: Leicester Sound 1991
5m Aug 31, 2014
5m
S1 Ep921: More gobbledygook in ads
I hope one day this will be a fond piece of #radiomoments history. It is the ends of three ads from the same ad break today. Under UK laws and restrictions, ads are currently required to carry all manner of disclaimers. The idea is that they protect consumers. They truly do not. Anyone who understands how radio, and indeed the consumption of much media, works knows well that listeners reap onl...
38s Aug 29, 2014
38s
S1 Ep920: Ovaltine radio ad - 1938
This truly was what we now call native advertising. Ovaltine rides rough-shod over Ofcom rules on transparency, given the product being advertised is only made clear some considerable way in this lengthy ad which sounds like a proper drama. And – at the end – today’s RACC would likely take a sharp intake of breath as they hear the claim that “perfect health” is “the inevitable result” of “regu...
4m Aug 28, 2014
4m
S1 Ep919: RadioMoments review 29th August 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 Aug 28, 2014
7m
S1 Ep918: Richard Attenborough on Capital Day One
43s Aug 24, 2014
43s
S1 Ep917: LBC loses its licence - 1993
Commercial radio was a risk in the '70s. Already late to the UK, compared to other countries, it struggled on-air with an unfinished patchwork quilt of stations.  The first was LBC in London - all news and talk, at a time when it was almost unthinkable that anyone other that the BBC could manage the job. The usual teething pains of any new venture were compounded by serious, industrial unrest, ...
4m Aug 22, 2014
4m
S1 Ep916: RadioMoments 22nd Aug 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 Aug 20, 2014
7m
S1 Ep915: Droitwich Calling
Walk into any old antique shop and you'll see the huge old radio sets. Some will have dusty tuning dials marked with places, like Luxemboug, Moscow, Paris, Warsaw and little old Droitwich in Worcestershire. The Droitwich masts tower into the sky to this day, visible from the M5, and seen at night too, thanks to the glow of the aircraft warning lights. The aerials beam out Radio 4 on Long Wave,...
12m Aug 20, 2014
12m
S1 Ep914: Top 20 - Radio 1 - November 1972
For a generation, this was the sound that bridged a happy school-free weekend and the smell of ironing and Sing Something Simple. The Sunday evening BBC chart on Radio 1 with chocolate-voiced Tom Browne. Back then, it was simply a two hour Top 20, with Tom introducing the songs one by one. No fannying around, just announcements, random sound effects, ‘Number Twenny’ number jingles; and a compu...
7m Aug 15, 2014
7m
S1 Ep913: RadioMoments review 15th August 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 Aug 14, 2014
8m
S1 Ep912: Shipping Forecast 10th August 2014
Students of the Shipping Forecast will love this piece of ready revision. As the end of Hurricane Bertha hit the UK, gale warnings were, well, just about everywhere.
34s Aug 10, 2014
34s
S1 Ep911: RadioMoments 8th August 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 Aug 09, 2014
7m
S1 Ep910: RadioMoments Review 1st Aug 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 Aug 02, 2014
8m
S1 Ep909: Radio Durham answerphone
Years ago, there was a lot of intervention in phone calls. Often a Post Office/GO (as British Telecom was back then) operator would plug you in to the desired number on your request. But when the call is then answered by a new fangled answerphone, then the confusion begins for this chap seeking to leave some sports results for the new and short-lived BBC Radio Durham.
2m Aug 02, 2014
2m
S1 Ep908: Michael Bukht interview
A leading commercial radio figure, Michael Bukht OBE died in 2011. In the dark days of the early 70s, Michael was the first Programme Controller proper of Capital Radio. He was also MD at Invicta, a GWR Programme Director and, notably, a visionary co-founder of Classic FM. As the Crafty Cook, Michael Barry became a TV favourite on BBC2 with ‘Food and Drink’. In this conversation with Mike Ow...
14m Jul 31, 2014
14m
S1 Ep907: 'The death has been announced of Diana, Princess of Wales.'
Everyone remembers where they were the moment they heard the news of the death of Princess Diana. Hear here the Radio 4 news bulletin the Nation woke to on Sunday 31st August 1997, a bulletin carried across BBC radio. The very joining together of all radio services, as the Corporation does in extremis, was a powerful symbol.
10m Jul 31, 2014
10m
S1 Ep906: Leicester Sound - The last link from Granville House
Just before 3pm on Tuesday July 30th 2002, and Steve Jordan finishes the last show to be broadcast on Leicester Sound from Granville House, which had been the home of ILR in Leicestershire since 1981. Following the 3pm news, Ivan D'Sa broadcast the first show from the station's new home on Dominus Way at Meridian Business Park, where it remained until the re-brand as Capital FM East Midlands i...
2m Jul 30, 2014
2m
S1 Ep905: Tomasz Schafernaker ·corpses at Sooty
When that laughter bubbles, it's tough to stop it. As regular culprit, Tomasz Schafernaker, finds out at dawn on July 30th 2014 on Radio 4. Mind you, when Stephen Fry and Sooty are the cause, it's not surprising. Maritime listeners may have been a tad taken aback.
2m Jul 30, 2014
2m
S1 Ep904: TEAMtalk 252 - Closedown
TEAMtalk 252 was based in Leeds. Its huge Irish transmitter and facilities were bought from RTL for £2m, having been used by the influential Atlantic 252 until December 2001. Launched in March 2002, TEAMtalk was to last for just five months, having attracted around half a million listeners. A format of sports talk, phone-ins and discussions ruled, in the hands of the likes of Jon Meek, Jon Ne...
2m Jul 29, 2014
2m
S1 Ep903: BBC Radio Durham launch
6m Jul 28, 2014
6m
S1 Ep902: RadioMoments 25th July 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 Jul 25, 2014
8m
S1 Ep901: Tony Blackburn & Noel Edmonds make up
In 67, Tony Blackburn was given the show he was born to host: the Radio 1 breakfast show. It amassed huge audiences, with no UK commercial radio, and very few remaining pirates. Almost six years later, the Blackburn smile faded as his show was awarded to his colleague Noel Edmonds, in June 1973. The 9.00 handovers were compulsive listening, given the Nation knew that, through the smiles, Tony ...
8m Jul 25, 2014
8m
S1 Ep900: GB (Gwent Broadcasting) Closedown
57s Jul 24, 2014
57s
S1 Ep899: Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme End
Radio found its place during World War II in so many ways. From providing reassurance and company to dispensing vital information; from boosting morale to spreading propaganda. The many American Forces personnel stationed in the UK, accustomed to vibrant US radio, were a little perplexed by staid Auntie BBC, even its General Forces Programme, which was doing so much to provide for the needs of...
4m Jul 24, 2014
4m
S1 Ep898: The Conservatives have been demolished
A moment of history, and no media captures the way it feels quite like radio. 'The Conservatives have been demolished’, announced John Humphrys on the 'Today Programme' on Radio 4 on the morning of 2nd May 1997, as Tony Blair swept to power in Labour’s biggest Parliamentary majority in history, ending almost twenty years of Conservative rule.
9m Jul 21, 2014
9m
S1 Ep897: RadioMoments Review 18th July 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 Jul 19, 2014
8m
S1 Ep896: LBC - Industrial action
2m Jul 14, 2014
2m
S1 Ep895: Trent Show 1987 - David Lloyd
February 1987. ILR was still very worthy, but maybe taking itself a little less seriously. Here's a mid morning show of mine from Trent. An interesting selection of music, and I am not awfully sure I was sticking to the format. Witness the lengthy, worthy, yet useful, Careline community bulletins followed swiftly by lengthy news bulletins, read here by Mike Blair who has gone onto much bigger ...
17m Jul 11, 2014
17m
S1 Ep894: Lincs FM Pre-launch montage
Lincs FM was the first station to be launched by the new Radio Authority in white space, that is an area uncovered by an existing commercial station. It launched in 1992 and, as Programme Controller, I had the privilege of assembling the launch team. With a very small budget, as the presenters will recall, Clare Carson and I assembled a talented team of presenters and journalists who were, I r...
3m Jul 11, 2014
3m
S1 Ep893: RadioMoments 11th July 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 Jul 11, 2014
6m
S1 Ep892: Kidd Kraddick - team tributes
Maybe owing to the fact that double acts and zoo formats are relatively new, in the context of the history of radio itself, few such shows have had to face the loss of one of their own. When Kidd Kraddick died in 2013, aged just 53, his team had to carry on in the days and weeks to follow. The US show was established and huge, being carried in around 75 markets, so the task for those remaining...
6m Jul 09, 2014
6m
S1 Ep891: Today fail 2004 - Naughtie/Humphrys
1m Jul 05, 2014
1m
S1 Ep890: RadioMoments Review 4th July 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 Jul 04, 2014
8m
S1 Ep889: RadioMoments 27th June 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 Jun 27, 2014
8m
S1 Ep888: 1975 interview with Trent's first PD, Bob Snyder
A great insight into early commercial radio thinking is given here by this 1975 interview with the first Programme Controller of Radio Trent, Bob Snyder. His programming philosophy would stand up to contemporary scrutiny; and one can hear he is some way ahead from much of commercial radio thinking at the time. Bob speaks of target audiences, cohesive music policies, and programming rather than...
8m Jun 21, 2014
8m
S1 Ep887: New Radio 2 jingles launch on air - 2012
I'm of the view that jingles should speak for themselves. The last thing you should ever do is talk about them. But - just somehow - the greats get away with referring to them in an inclusive way without it sounding too anoraky. In 2012, BBC Radio 2, launched a new sound. It was, though, the last time this familiar Radio 2 logo melody was used. This was an ambitious package, and so great to see...
1m Jun 20, 2014
1m
S1 Ep884: Radio Trent 1980 show - Len Groat
A time and a place. As the early commercial stations found their feet in the '80s, their community obligations, prodded by a strict regulator and a BBC local radio management legacy, were sensibly combined, in safe hands, with tight, formated music radio to produce this sort of cheery output on the best stations. Enjoy this couple of hours of Nottingham's Radio Trent from December 18th 1980. A...
24m Jun 13, 2014
24m
S1 Ep883: Blackburn insists on Cliff on Classic Gold
Some say it was a PR stunt. Others say it was Tony doing what Tony does - after all, he's at the stage in his career when he can afford to say he just won't work for you if he doesn't like the music. Or maybe it was a bit of both. Cliff was not a key artist for the AM Classic Gold Network. Programme management had decreed, possibly wisely, in 2004 that although much Motown and Beatles and the ...
23s Jun 07, 2014
23s
S1 Ep882: Beacon Shropshire - pre-launch promo
In the '80s, the regulator, the IBA was being pressured into growing the commercial radio network at a time when making a success of stations as stand-alones was proving tough. As a consequence, it cobbled Derby onto the Nottingham licence and Shropshire onto the Wolverhampton licence; although separate programming was to be provided for the new adjuncts. Beacon accordingly expanded in July 198...
53s Jun 07, 2014
53s
S1 Ep881: Metro - tests and launch
Metro Radio, variously the Metropolitan Broadcasting Company, or MBC was the sixth in the first tranche of UK commercial stations, launching on 15th July 1974. Hear here the great test transmissions, featuring James Whale in his poshest voice, the launch and then some of the later imaging.
11m Jun 07, 2014
11m
S1 Ep879: First IRN broadcast from the Commons
The rulers of our land did not rush into letting us hear what they were up to. Reith, when DG of the BBC in the twenties, thought it might be a good idea for listeners to hear their elected members speak. It was so logical that it was unthinkable.  Thirty years later, when they opened the new Commons Chamber, they wired up microphones, just in case. MPs accordingly rushed into things. Well, the...
2m Jun 06, 2014
2m
S1 Ep878: RadioMoments Review 30th 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...
6m May 31, 2014
6m
S1 Ep877: RadioMoments Review 23rd 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 22, 2014
7m