I’m surprised there’s been no mention of this on here over the weekend. A three day pop-up DAB station with loads of archive stuff from across the 50 years of BBC Radio 1. Currently listening to Emperor Rosko, who is baffling but playing(ed) some great tunes.
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minibreakfast says
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Moose the Mooche says
Pound o’ bananas?
Pound o’ bananas!
DogFacedBoy says
Also some bits n pieces on the I-player in the new Archive section including a nice little 20 minute documentary with Noel Tidybeard showing how he weaves his radio magic and veteran announcer John Snagge looking back at the early days of radio announcing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p05h6ylj/world-of-difference-1978#group=p05hggxj
Plus the wonderful ‘Walking With DJs’ about Matthew Bannisters cull of the old guard at Radio 1 with a star turn in delusion by Adrian Juste
dai says
I have said it before, Noel was a talented radio broadcaster. What he became after that is a shame, but he used to be good.
Moose the Mooche says
The Adrian Juste bit is priceless. “Have you heard what he’s doing?” he complained of Danny Baker’s show – DB sadly unaware that splicing laughter from comedy records into your own jokes is the real gold standard of broadcasting.
Black Type says
Complementary to this, I highly recommend ‘The Nation’s Favourite’, by Simon Goddard – a book I’ve re-read on a few occasions with equal sadistic pleasure đ
Stephen G says
by Simon Garfield though
Black Type says
Yeah, that’s who I meant – d’oh!
Uncle Wheaty says
Just watched both of those programmes and they were well worth the effort.
Adrian Juste must be the biggest t@@t to have ever walked this earth. How he believed his show was “funny” back in the day defies belief.
The fact that he stayed on for so long is beyond belief!
Colin H says
When he was kicked out it was, perhaps, the only tiome in history that an un-Juste outcome was for the best.
Uncle Wheaty says
Completely agree.
I quite liked DLT’s Saturday morning show in the late 1980s but Adrian Juste for an hour after was beyond his sell by date then…even if he ever had one.
dai says
Well, of course he thought it was funny. It wasn’t but most didn’t share his sense of humour.
Uncle Wheaty says
Did he have one?
Judging by that programme he didn’t.
Uncle Wheaty says
From Wikipedia:
Juste now provides the voice-over for the online bingo site tombola on its “Bingo 50” game.[citation needed] He presented shows in the south west on BBC local radio stations on Christmas Days in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and one final show that aired on BBC Radio Devon and BBC Guernsey between 12:00 and 13:00 on Christmas Day 2013.
Moose the Mooche says
My dad used to say of Noel’s interminable Christmas day TV shows from Telecom tower, “He’s always on at Christmas… because no bastard wants him at home”
Mike_H says
..and disc jockeys who actually have lives don’t much want to work on Christmas day.
dai says
Probably not, but I am sure he found it funny. And he must have had a few listeners who liked it.
deramdaze says
Just the thought of Mike Read, Adrian Juste, Tony Blackburn, David Hamilton, Dave Lee Travis etc. makes me shudder.
I suspect, with these anniversary programmes, the Beeb have wildly overestimated the affection the public have for it.
minibreakfast says
They’re certainly not all my cup of tea, but judging by my Twitter timeline this stuff has been going down a storm.
dai says
I used to like Mike Read especially when he did the 8-10 evening show (and Pop Quiz). Blackburn’s afternoon show was a good accompaniment to working in manufacturing, but I have less affection for Juste, Diddy and DLT .
Dogbyte says
The website has the full versions of the interviews that they’ve been using little clips from over the weekend.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05gz52d/episodes/downloads
I only sampled a few but the Johnnie Walker and Mark Radcliffe ones are well worth a listen.