S1 Ep776: RadioMoments Review 30th Aug 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 week...
6m Aug 31, 2013
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S1 Ep775: Steve Penk - 1st breakfast on Key 103
3m Aug 29, 2013
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S1 Ep774: Lisa Kerr, John Ryan & Alan Yentob on women in radio
When the BBC DG, Tony Hall, declared in a keynote speech that half of all BBC breakfast shows should be hosted by women, discussion ensued. On Steve Hewlett’s brilliantly-chaired ‘The Media Show’ on Radio 4, Lisa Kerr, Alan Yentob and John Ryan gave their views. For the record, my thoughts are http://davidlloyd-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/muttering-darkly-over-muffins.html
12m Aug 28, 2013
12m
S1 Ep773: MXR West Mids closes
DAB’s UK rollout echoed its analogue predecessor: tiers of national, local and regional services. As ever in our small Country, frequency availability was, however, at a premium. That meant no regional multiplex for the East Mids, no local Mx at all in some areas, and the frequencies on the South Coast risking opening garage door in France. Apparently. As the Government, the regulators and man...
2m Aug 26, 2013
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S1 Ep772: Steve Wright - First show on Radio 1
His tenure on BBC National afternoon radio appears to have gone on for ever. 13 years on Radio 1; and 17 years, to date, on Radio 2. Alongside Moyles and Mills, this second generation BBC Radio 1 stalwart was grown by commercial radio. After working in the BBC backroom, he was to be on-air at Reading's Radio 210, overseas radio and Radio Luxembourg before graduating to BBC National radio. As h...
2m Aug 25, 2013
2m
S1 Ep771: RadioMoments Review 23rd Aug 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 week...
5m Aug 23, 2013
5m
S1 Ep770: Gilmore - John Humphrys
John Humphrys is now so closely associated with Radio 4's 'The Today Programme', it's easy to forget his pedigree. His face was a familiar one on BBC TV news; and he was a foreign correspondent. It is during the spell overseas that this work was done. Hear John reflecting on one of the huge stories of 1977, the execution of double murderer Gary Gilmore in Utah State Prison. More on John's life...
1m Aug 16, 2013
1m
S1 Ep769: RadioMoments Review 16th August 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 week...
7m Aug 15, 2013
7m
S1 Ep768: Pirate closedowns
The story of the UK’s offshore 1960s pirates is well-documented in, thankfully, both words and audio. In a country which enjoyed so little pop music radio in a decade which boasted such rich musical pickings and one in which a generation found its voice, the tide of pirate stations from ships and North Sea forts were a welcome distraction. It all crashed to a halt in August 1967. Legislation w...
3m Aug 13, 2013
3m
S1 Ep767: RadioMoments Review 9th August 1013
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 Aug 10, 2013
6m
S1 Ep766: GB Radio (Gwent Broadcasting) launch flexi-disc - 1983
5m Aug 06, 2013
5m
S1 Ep765: Jay Oliver - first Beacon MD
The word 'flamboyant' was often associated with Jay Oliver. Jay was the first MD of the renegade Beacon Radio in Wolverhampton: a station which, alongside Trent, got the regulator shaking its head in despair. As the first station to face commercial competition, it tackled its fight versus BRMB with relish. Here, Jay explains his early strategy. More on Beacon at http://youtu.be/Rb4X5pJCar8
1m Aug 05, 2013
1m
S1 Ep764: David Jacobs - Medley and farewell words
There were 1.5m cars on the road when David Jacobs first broadcast; a gallon of petrol was ten pence; and the average graduate wage was £275 p.a. David was one the great characters who’d been on air since the medium of radio itself was but a thirty something. Following appearances on the BBC General Forces Programme, BFBS and on radio in what was Ceylon, he became a staff announcer at the BBC....
6m Aug 04, 2013
6m
S1 Ep763: Gold - Shaun Tilley in early days of new brand
2m Aug 02, 2013
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S1 Ep762: Radiomoments Review 2nd Aug 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 week...
6m Aug 02, 2013
6m
S1 Ep761: Radiomoments Review 26th July 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 week...
6m Jul 27, 2013
6m
S1 Ep760: James Alexander Gordon - Retirement
1m Jul 24, 2013
1m
S1 Ep759: Radiomoments Review 19th July 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 week...
7m Jul 19, 2013
7m
S1 Ep758: ILR - The story
What a ride it was. Those first waves of commercial radio. Enjoy here a frantic and, on occasions, emotional anorak through the first fifteen years of ILR. A vibrant tapestry of sound illustrating the years which brought us the first tier of UK commercial radio laid down across a suspicious UK. In this labour of love, hear the first breaths of the vast majority of the stations which came on a...
19m Jul 16, 2013
19m
S1 Ep757: Marcher Sound - Launch
3m Jul 13, 2013
3m
S1 Ep756: Radio Pembrokeshire - Launch
1m Jul 13, 2013
1m
S1 Ep755: Radiomoments Review 12th July 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 Jul 12, 2013
6m
S1 Ep754: Christopher Stone - Medley
So. Here he is. It’s all his fault. The first jock. Christopher Stone never had an accapella name-check. He never growled on-air at his bosses for a late pay packet. But he is credited as being the ‘first disc jockey'.  He pitched the bright idea to the BBC. They laughed. He persisted. Eventually, on July 7th, 1927, he was set loose with a pile of 78s, a record player and a microphone. If Tony ...
2m Jul 06, 2013
2m
S1 Ep753: Radiomoments Review 5th July 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 weekly...
6m Jul 04, 2013
6m
S1 Ep752: Kate Lee - The art of newsreading
Newsreading. An art. Kate Lee (http://katelee.co.uk/) is a voice coach who's worked with so many across the BBC and commercial radio. Here, she mulls over some of the issues which often crop up in her sessions. http://davidlloyd-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-art-of-news-reading.html
6m Jul 02, 2013
6m
S1 Ep751: Radio England News in 1966
2m Jul 02, 2013
2m
S1 Ep750: Radio 1 AM close
It's difficult to countenance now that good old whiney AM was once the bedrock of UK radio. When BBC Local radio began in 1967, it was a reluctant FM-only experiment. Our home was one of the few on the road to have an FM set; and that had been built by my clever brother. Shortly afterwards, an AM back-up frequency was added to the Beeb locals, in a bid to lend the fledgling stations a helping ...
3m Jun 30, 2013
3m
S1 Ep749: Radiomoments review 28th June 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 weekly...
7m Jun 28, 2013
7m
S1 Ep748: Gobbledygook
Pointless stuff on radio ads. Does it protect the listener? Or is it really just a lengthy escape clause for the advertiser; thus benefiting no-one. Does anyone who comes up with these rules really understand how listeners use and recall radio content? This is a real issue which needs addressing, as necessary, through the primary legislation which is generating the regulatory interpretations. ...
1m Jun 24, 2013
1m
S1 Ep747: Northants 96 - Launch
5m Jun 23, 2013
5m
S1 Ep746: Carl Chinn ends on BBC WM
Radio’s great. It’s also sad. The relationship so carefully built between listener and presenter is always to be broken at some stage. Either because management wants a change; or a presenter chooses to leave. Some decisions on line-up changes are wrong; and some are right; but to the listener who enjoyed the show about to end, it’s always very, very wrong. It’s tough as a presenter when one i...
13m Jun 23, 2013
13m
S1 Ep745: Jo & Twiggy start - and Twiggy end
Really long-running breakfast shows are few and far between. For every Moyles, there’s a Steve Wright. For every Wogan, there’s a Ken Bruce. Nothing wrong with Wright and Bruce, of course, they’ve done excellently; it’s just that breakfast is a peculiar animal. It suits some and not others. When an act works, it tends to stay in situ for some years. Wogan and Moyles’s tenure on BBC breakfasts ...
5m Jun 22, 2013
5m
S1 Ep744: John Whitney (IBA) talks on 1984 Heathrow Conference
Radio's first regulator, the turquoise IBA, based just near Harrods, was a tough one for radio. Emerging from its Independent Television Authority days, the IBA was lumbered with a troublesome new pregnancy in the form of independent radio. The TV rules were transferred across to radio wherever possible, in a climate where not everyone was yet utterly sure whether this commercial radio was goin...
1m Jun 22, 2013
1m
S1 Ep743: Radiomoments Review 21 June 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 weekly...
6m Jun 21, 2013
6m
S1 Ep742: Radio ads in the 80s
Ads tell a story of a time and a place. Witness the 80s. Hear here the dodgy PI slot for products which were not available in the shops, containing all sorts of spurious ingredients; and two ads voiced by the client. Then there’s a truly classic national ad (from the days when they were fed in mono down the IRN line); an interesting bit of early brand integration in the closest we could get to...
3m Jun 19, 2013
3m
S1 Ep741: Bob Snyder - Medley
In the days when commercial music radio had few on-air models in the UK, Bob Snyder had a vision which one could hear on-air at Radio Trent from Day One. He’d cut his broadcasting teeth on-air at the pirate Radio 270, bobbing up and down in the North Sea waters, in April 1967. As the foundations for legitimate commercial radio were laid in the early 70s, he and former Radio London boss, Philip...
8m Jun 17, 2013
8m
S1 Ep740: Team Rock Radio - Launch
The station described itself as “a group of rock music fans that got fed up with the traditional way that rock music media has been delivered to the most important people out there - the fans!”. Team Rock , based in Glasgow, and owned by Team Rock Limited, the new owner of Classic Rock and Metal Hammer magazines, was operated by a team headed by John Myers and Billy Anderson. The station launch...
2m Jun 16, 2013
2m
S1 Ep739: Rory Morrison - Tribute
Rory Morrison began at Beacon Radio in Wolverhampton as a travel reporter known as ‘Fonzy’. Off then to the BBC Radio Leeds hosting daytime shows; and to BBC Radio York and the early shift on BBC Radio Cleveland. BFBS was Rory’s next home, before sliding into BBC Radio 4, moving through a succession of famous programmes before joining the newsreading team. His voice is instantly recognisable to...
2m Jun 16, 2013
2m
S1 Ep738: Simon Mayo conversation
There are not too many examples of BBC local radio presenters who end up on Network, let alone who end up on BBC 5 Live and Radio 2, with a burst of Radio 1 breakfast too. Simon Mayo is the exception. In a conversation in June 2013 here with John Holmes on BBC Radio Nottingham (with whom he worked in days of yore), Simon tells of this Radio 1 debut and his surprise move to 5 Live. He also tal...
16m Jun 16, 2013
16m
S1 Ep737: Radiomoments Review 14th June 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 weekly...
7m Jun 14, 2013
7m
S1 Ep736: Galaxy imaging
6m Jun 12, 2013
6m
S1 Ep735: Rory Morrison
Rory Morrison began at Beacon Radio in Wolverhampton as a travel reporter known as ‘Fonzy’. Off then to the BBC Radio Leeds hosting daytime shows; and to BBC Radio York and the early shift on BBC Radio Cleveland. BFBS was Rory’s next home, before sliding into BBC Radio 4, moving through a succession of famous programmes before joining the newsreading team. His voice is instantly recognisable to...
2m Jun 11, 2013
2m
S1 Ep734: Bill Mitchell - The Story
I had one. Most jocks had one. If you felt there was any possibility of a career in radio you bought two things: a Sonovox jingle and a Bill Mitchell voiced line. He had the deepest voice in radio voiceovers. It featured in numerous TV and radio ads, from Flake to Carlsberg and Denim, as ‘70s advertisers tried to make perfume sound masculine. He appeared in films too; and was the voice on the ...
28m Jun 10, 2013
28m
S1 Ep733: The Queen opens New Broadcasting House in 2013
2m Jun 07, 2013
2m
S1 Ep732: Radiomoments Review 7th June 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 weekly...
6m Jun 07, 2013
6m
S1 Ep731: Coronation coverage 1953
It was a pretty big OB. Read the story: http://davidlloyd-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/a-coronation-in-colour.html
2m Jun 01, 2013
2m
S1 Ep730: Scott Mills on Power FM aged 16
11s Jun 01, 2013
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S1 Ep729: Blackburn on Edmonds schedule change
Breakfast is the crown. Whether or not people are best-suited to the gig; or capable of it, it remains a goal for so many radio presenters. Tony Blackburn was the rightful first appointment to the Radio1 breakfast show in 1967, and he held it for a respectable 6 years; a term exceeded only by Moyles. So, it was probably to be expected that he would be less than keen on anyone who succeeded him...
11s Jun 01, 2013
11s
S1 Ep728: Radiomoments Review w/e 31/5/2013
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 weekly...
7m May 31, 2013
7m
S1 Ep727: Cricket - the voices of Summer
The Voices of Summer. And they are. Rich. Fruity. They are as warm as sunshine; and as English as cucumber sandwiches. You can smell the newly-mown grass. Witness the voices of the great cricket commentators like John Arlott, Brian Johnston, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, and Richie Benaud and Henry Blofeld. A little like the shipping forecast, one can revel in their character and humour regardle...
2m May 30, 2013
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