RadioJottings
Andy Walmsley writing about radio broadcasting history and occasionally about life here in France
Radio blog at andywalmsley.blogspot.com
- Pages of London Calling listings magazine (Sept 1979) when the BBC World Service offered a whole range of music shows
- Reposted by RadioJottingsEp 113 of The British Broadcasting Century Podcast is here! The history of Radio Caroline/pirate radio with Ray Clark, author of Radio Caroline: The True Story of the Boat that Rocked. Plus the drunken commentary of Tommy Woodroffe ("The fleet's lit up!") Enjoy! bbcentury.podbean.com/e/113-radio-...
- OTD last year Kate McCann joins Stig Abell to co-present Times Radio Breakfast
- OTD last year ahead of the release of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bauer launch the pop-up station Bridget Jones Radio
- A full recording of what was broadcast that Sunday morning on BBC Radio 2 between 9 and 11 with Mark Goodier stepping in to play some of Terry's favourite music and read out listener's memories and comments www.mixcloud.com/andy-walmsle...
- OTD 10 years ago came the news that Sir Terry Wogan had died #togmeister
- OTD 10 years ago came the news that Sir Terry Wogan had died #togmeister
- A brief history of radio organists from Reginald Foort and Sandy MacPherson to Reginald Dixon and Nigel Ogden. Blog post from May 2015 The Organist Entertains bit.ly/2TYuWns
- OTD last year Aasmah Mir leaves Times Radio. She was part of the team that launched the station in June 2020
- With news that organist and broadcaster Nigel Ogden has died here's a chance to enjoy a 1990 edition of Radio 2's The Organist Entertains youtu.be/ZaiShZqOpms
- OTD last year The Good Groove on BBC Radio 2 supersized to four nights a week with DJ Spoony
- I've dug out some more Wake Up to Wogan podcasts, this time from early 2009. Now live on YouTube with more to follow this week
- On this day in 1979 BBC Radio 2 goes 24 hours a day. Sarah Kennedy closes down the station for the last time, Tom Edwards opens it up for the last time and Colin Berry bridges the 2-6 gap with You and the Night and the Music
- Exactly 40 years ago and its the draw for the 5th round of the FA Cup from Lancaster Gate with Mike Ingham
- OTD last year Trevor Nelson starts a "shiny new afternoon show" on BBC Radio 2
- OTD last year it was all change at BBC Radio 2 as Scott Mills takes over the breakfast show and there's a visit to Scottport
- OTD last year Gok Wan joins Magic Radio Breakfast to co-host with Harriet Scott
- Mark Tully on reporting from India. Radio Times 8 August 1987
- OTD last year Gaby Roslin starts a new Saturday morning show on Magic Radio
- More on Father Ronald Knox and the 1926 BBC talk Broadcasting the Barricades from Jude Rogers for The Observer
- Tonight on BBC Four (10.15 pm) a repeat of the 1976 programme 'The Birth of Television'. In that week's Radio Times Vincent Hanna spoke to early television pioneers Leslie Mitchell, Arthur Askey, Jasmine Blight, Douglas Birkenshaw, Tony Bridgewater and John Bliss
- OTD last year the final show on 1Xtra for DJ Ace. The following month he joined KISS
- Big Ben is demolished, the Savoy Hotel in flames and anxious listeners frantically phone the BBC. This day in 1926 Broadcasting the Barricades, a talk by Father Ronald Knox shocks the nation. My December 2023 blog post has more
- Today on BBC Radio 4 Extra a repeat of the 3-part adaptation of The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. Stars Jeremy Clyde and Michael Cochrane. First broadcast on the BBC World Service in January 1982
- It's DD the DJ as Diana Dors sits in for a holidaying Gloria Hunniford (BBC Radio 2 in 1982)
- The history of Radio Newsreel (1940-91) ' a series of sound pictures illustrating the news and current events'. Latest blog post with audio bit.ly/4pyzw7s
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- OTD last year Nicki Chapman joins Magic Radio to present the evening Mellow Magic show
- OTD last year moving into drivetime on KISSTORY are Bam Bam & Streetboy
- The 8am launch of STV Radio with Ewen and Cat youtu.be/xzoA1SpOCF0
- This day last year Mark Collins joins Nation Radio South for the mid-morning show
- OTD last year Steve Power and Selina Ross kick off a new schedule on Nation Radio South with the breakfast show 'Ah, there you are! I've been expecting you'
- OTD last year all change at Kent's kmfm as Rob and Numi take over the breakfast show
- OTD in 1948 Sports Report airs for the first time on the BBC Light Programme. My 2013 potted history of the long-running programme bit.ly/3rREpjQ or for the definitive story seek out Pat Murphy's book
- When the USA invaded Panama in December 1989 they used rock music - Guns N'Roses and The Clash - to force out General Noriega. News report 28.12.89
- Last night RTÉ Radio 1 marked 100 years of Irish radio broadcasting and also played out archive recordings from the 1976 LP Voices of Radio. Available online here www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
- New Year's Day 1996 on BBC Radio 1-5 live, World Service, Classic FM, Virgin and Talk
- Happy New Year 1986! The BBC national radio choice of listening this day 40 years ago
- Happy New Year ... 1976! National radio listening 50 years ago with the Bay City Rollers, Pete Murray, the concert from Vienna and 25 years of The Archers
- Happy New Year!!
- New Year's Eve and your national BBC radio offerings 40 years ago. See out 1985 with Janice & John, Ray Moore, jazz and Dvorak on Radio 3 and a meditation from Scotland on Radio 4
- Seeing out 1975 and seeing in 1976 on BBC Radio half a century ago with Paul Burnett, Ray Moore & Jean Challis or Richard Baker. Radio 3 retired to bed early
- OTD last year after over 60 years in broadcasting it was Sarah Ward's final show and a special celebration of her career on Jazz FM
- And the Generation Game answers are...
- "All right my loves! Try your hands at this; the Generation Game you can play at home." From Christmas 1975. Answers to follow
- Today BBC Radio 4 Extra starts repeats of the 1981 series of Tom Mennard's Local Tales. My February 2024 blog post on Tom's career and those tales of Harry, Charlie and Fred down at the Goat and Compasses bit.ly/4a7cVer
