Next Friday at 9pm GMT, a 1-hour programme originally aired in March 2016 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bonzos “going pro”.
“2016 saw the fiftieth anniversary of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band going “professional” – kick-starting the chaos with a performance on the bastion of psychedelia and avant-garde: Blue Peter.
The legendary Neil Innes looks back at the influence and influences of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and the collision of art, humour, music, language and anarchy that permeated the band’s career.
Archive interviews and performances accompany new interviews with Legs Larry Smith, Rodney Slater, Vernon Dudley Bowhay Nowell, Sam Spoons, and Bob Kerr and contributions from friends and fans including Terry Gilliam, Adrian Edmondson, Kevin Eldon, Diane Morgan, Rick Wakeman and Stephen Fry.
Neil Innes died in December 2019 at the age of 75.”
Huzzah.
Also recently on R4, Don Letts on King Tubby:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rc4h
Excellent!
Thanks Mike, I’ll be setting the VCR to listen over Saturday morning coffee.
It’s available for five weeks…. BLIMEY!
Shall we take it to the cleaners?
Only 59 minutes.
We’re in luck, there’s an R in the month.
Time they put Cornology back on catalogue methinks.
I’ve got that. It’s ace. Labio-Dental Fricative!
With a little luck, it might turn up on Yer Tube.
There’s quite a lot of interesting other stuff in BBC Sounds’ “Archive On 4” archive.
David Bowie: Verbatim
John Lennon: Verbatim
Being Bored: The Importance Of Doing Nothing
A Brief History Of Shame
Logan’s Run and Intergenerational War
Working Class Heroes
The Real Summer Of Love
Etc.