please empty your brain below
Bits and pieces. Memories eh? I can't believe I used to tape the Tuesday lunchtime chart show.

Jag | Homepage | 29.09.07 - 10:58 a.m. | #

Them was the days.

Now I'm finding even Radio 4 too modern for me.

What's an untrendy Witch to listen to these days?

Blue Witch | Homepage | 29.09.07 - 11:55 a.m. | #

Happy birthday to all four of them! Excellent summary/links, cheers DG.

Three of them have played memorable parts in my life.

I grew up with Radio 4 as it was (and still is) my mother's listen of choice. It's also the station most often on here at Planarchy towers these days.

Radio 1 was of course mine in early teens when I crowded round it at school on Tuesday lunchtimes and then later on for John Peel late into the night.

Radio 2 was piped over the loudspeakers in a warehouse I used to work in during the Uni holidays in the days of David Diddy Hamilton. I haven't returned to it since.

Still not tried Radio 3. Do they play cutting edge punk for 40 year olds yet?

NiC | Homepage | 29.09.07 - 12:47 p.m. | #

This is one of those moments where you click on someone's blog and they have written about something that is totally spot on with what you are doing in RL. I have spent all week researching 1940s music and old radio stations, so this is a bit later, but still pretty apt! Cheers!

Jayne | Homepage | 29.09.07 - 12:53 p.m. | #

Those new (July 07) logos are largely rubbish. I'd not seen them yet so it's quite a surprise.

Another Andrew | 29.09.07 - 2:31 p.m. | #

Can't live without Radio 4....
(did anyone understand most of what was being discussed on Braggs prog t'other day about plato and socrates ? Made me think while i was on me exercise bike...)

Radio 3...rarely but has some outstanding stufff...

Radio 2. I can't, I just can't....

Radio 1. They seemed to have moved on somewhat, or perhaps at 55 it is I... still, without John Peel it offers me very little.

Otherwise i pick up French and Swiss radio, and nothing like the Beeb exists, apart from what was THE best music station Couleur 3 (trois) - you ask Massive Attack.

advanced-pondlife | 29.09.07 - 2:49 p.m. | #

What a blast from the past. This was during the time I was living in London in my youth.

Now I feel old.

Betty | Homepage | 29.09.07 - 4:49 p.m. | #

I thought Radio 4 had dropped the theme for a news bulletin?

mclm | 29.09.07 - 5:47 p.m. | #

.....Anoraks will appreciate a full history of Radio 1's transmission frequencies, from 247.......
247 of course is not the frequency but the wavelength.
Nice reading DG's radio blog.
Now I have read it I can look forward to hearing "Semprini Serenade" and "Sing Something Simple" on Sunday, I did not know before that they were being repeated from the BBC archives.
I grew up listening to the Light programme and Home service in the pre TV days.

Anonymous | 29.09.07 - 7:23 p.m. | #

* nods to the DG Saturday Club *

And, oh my, they're broadcasting Ed "Stewpot" Stewart's "Junior Choice" tomorrow. MOR-NING! BY-EEEE! SQUASHED TOMATOES AND STEW, BREAD AND BUTTER IN THE GUTTER ETC ETC!

mike | Homepage | 29.09.07 - 9:24 p.m. | #

I just wish that John Peel was still with us.

But thank god the execrable R4 theme has been consigned to the bin. It was a dreadful old hack-job.

Chris | 29.09.07 - 10:28 p.m. | #

I grew up with 'Music while you work' Womans Hour, Listen with Mother, and those wonderful dramas, Dick Barton, and my all time favourite: Journey into Space. Beats Doctor Who any day! There's nothing wrong with Radio 2, great to do the ironing to, or jig around in the morning when Johnnie Walker is on! They play a lot of Rock & Roll you know.

Tina from Surrey | 29.09.07 - 11:17 p.m. | #

Norman and Henry Bones, the Boy Detectives, was a favourite programme.

Great Aunt Annie | 29.09.07 - 11:43 p.m. | #

37/40 on the quiz for me...

mike | Homepage | 30.09.07 - 2:13 a.m. | #

Of course, the true geeks among us know that the first *tune* played on Radio 1 was George Martin's Theme One - which later featured regularly on the station, in a cover version by Van Der Graaf Generator, as the theme to "Lie Back And Enjoy It" on Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show...

Simon C | Homepage | 30.09.07 - 11:28 a.m. | #

Of course, until the 90s, Radio 1 was pretty rare in London - it was on shitty old medium wave, while Capital (a far more diverse station until the mid-80s) was on shiny FM.

I'll always remember my first encounter with Radio 2, in a barbers in the mid-80s - so cheesy I almost pissed myself laughing. Early Radio 2 is even more jaw-dropping - take a listen to its first DJ here: http://tinyurl.com/2n4odv

Inspector Sands | Homepage | 30.09.07 - 11:25 p.m. | #











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