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Andy Walmsley writing about radio broadcasting history and occasionally about life here in France Radio blog at andywalmsley.blogspot.com
Know of it and recorded a short clip that I'm trying to find. In the meantime this from the Radio Times
The story of the 1960 Beaulieu Jazz Festival and the ensuing 'Beatnik Beat-Up' that forced BBC television coverage to end early. My latest blog post Jazz Riots on a Summer's Day andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2026/07/jazz...
Do you remember, or have you heard of the riot at the 1960 Beaulieu Jazz Festival? Latest blog post tomorrow will feature audio of the BBC tv OB that had to be pulled off air early that summer's evening
Terrence Rattigan's The Final Test on BBC Sounds, not heard since June 1963. For fans of radio continuity listen out for Frank Phillips, Colin Doran and Tim Gudgin. For TMS fans there's Johnners and Rex Alston www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Human Voices is a 1980 novel by Penelope Fitzgerald set in wartime Broadcasting House. A 1992 adaptation by David Dorward read by Penelope Wilton is repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra/BBC Sounds starting tomorrow www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Tomorrow Sara Cox starts her new BBC Radio 2 breakfast show. Back in 2002 when this article by Adam Sweeting appeared in the Times Magazine (15.6.02) she was hosting the Radio 1 breakfast show.
Terrific Radio Times cover designed by Fluck and Law for the American Bicentenary w/c 3 July 1976
About 49 minutes in we hear this super traffic news jingle from PAMS
The sound of BBC Radio 1 exactly 50 years ago on a gloriously sunny day in 1976 with a recording of David Hamilton's afternoon show on 247m MW and VHF (Wimbledon coverage over on LW) www.mixcloud.com/noeltyrrel/f...
My holiday reading. Just getting to the (spoiler alert) bit when the BBC starts regular transmissions from Ally Pally in 1936
On the day before the closure of BBC Radio 4 on long wave, here's the moment in November 1978 when Brian Matthew said goodbye to Radio 2 long wave and David Symonds welcomed listeners to Radio 4 UK
On the day before the closure of BBC Radio 4 on long wave, a reminder that the last programme on Radio 2 long wave in November 1978 was Round Midnight with Brian Matthew. Announcer is James Alexander Gordon
Spotted this radio set in a shop in Marseillan today, a Le Regional 57M. Note on the top of the dial Droitwich, then on 1500m carrying the Light Programme when this was built. Radio 4 long wave closes in the early hours tomorrow (although a looped anno continues until Tuesday)
In the week that BBC Radio 4 long wave transmitters fall silent my latest blog post on 102 years of long wave broadcasting andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2026/06/so-l...
Repeat showing starting tonight on BBC Four of 'Our Friends in the North'. First episode originally broadcast on 15 January 1996. Radio Times met the four friends Nicky, Mary, Tosker & Geordie
Trailblazing investigative journalist Roger Cook has died. My latest blog post 'My name is Roger Cook. Leave the microphone alone' on his radio career on WATO, Checkpoint and TV's The Cook Report #radio andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2026/06/my-n...
Trailblazing investigative journalist Roger Cook has died. My latest blog post 'My name is Roger Cook. Leave the microphone alone' on his radio career on WATO, Checkpoint and TV's The Cook Report andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2026/06/my-n...
How BBC radio covered the World Cup tournaments in 1986, 1990 & 1994. My June 2012 blog post andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2014/06/worl...
How BBC radio covered the World Cup in 1978 and 1982. My June 2012 blog post andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2014/06/worl...
How BBC radio covered the 1970 and 1974 World Cup tournaments. My June 2014 blog post #WorldCup andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2014/06/worl...
Trooping the Colour was first broadcast on the radio in 1927 and first shown on television in 1938. My 2022 blog post on the ceremony with a recovered recording from 1961 with Robert Hudson commentating bit.ly/3PTyZMR
OTD last year Leigh and Claire had moved from Hits Radio South Wales to present the breakfast show on Swansea Bay Radio
OTD last year schedule changes at Magic Classical as Tim Smith, Fran Godfrey and Jo Cochrane join the weekday team and Charles Nove is back from his hols #radio
OTD last year schedule changes at Magic Classical as Tim Smith, Fran Godfrey and Jo Cochrane join the weekday team and Charles Nove is back from his hols
OTD last year after his final Hits Radio breakfast across the North West (with Leanne Campbell), Joel Ross was back the following week with the news Hits Radio 00s breakfast show
OTD last year just days after after their last breakfast show on Hits Radio North East, Steve and Karen are back on Hits Radio 90s
Trevor Harrison has been playing Eddie Grundy in The Archers since 1979. In 1990 he spoke to the Radio Times for My Kind of Day #TheArchers
In the month that BBC Radio 4 long wave transmitters fall silent my latest blog post on 102 years of long wave broadcasting andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2026/06/so-l...
Latest blog post Radio Lives - Judith Chalmers starting on Children's Hour in 1949, regional announcer, Family Favourites, Woman's Hour, daytime Radio 2 (and, of course, all her TV work)