All-too-plausible mockery of the pomposity of modern hi-tech news broadcasting
SHIP-IN-A-BOTTLE-like relic from an earlier age of Radio 2
KNOWN as 'Me, Mark Page' to those few who listened to his tucked-away show
SERIAL-defecting grumpy bastard outstaying his welcome on Sunday mornings
ANOTHER 'just the music' man
FORMIDABLE alterno-colossus and one-time tramp-resembling bloke scowling at the back of that infamous original Radio 1 group photo on the steps of...
ACCLAIMED docusoap send-up with investigative reporter Roy Mallard
WRY Imperial Phase pop-duo invited to do a novelty holiday cover slot as part of the baffling ‘Bates’ Mates’ summer scheme
WRITING POWERHOUSE who filled Radio 4's schedules virtually single-handed for decades on end
MANCHESTER ad-supported service renowned as the first stop on Chris Evans' rampage through radio
TYPICALLY futile mid-eighties attempt at luring the school holidaying kids away from WHY DON'T YOU? and back towards the radio
SATURDAY MORNING pre-Junior Choice half-hour magazine show for listeners too young for pop thrills
EARLY evening news roundup grim-athon
THESE DAYS better known as top showbiz agent and ex-Mr Anthea Turner, but once the Mark Goodier of his day
AUSTIN POWERS-purloined tongue-in-cheek pastiche of all things sixties, agenty and secret
TIME-HONOURED SMUGATHON in which Nigel Rees invites celeb guest panelists to guffaw at their own cleverness in recognising highbrow literary quotes
Master of musically trainspotting drollery
POST-PYTHON option-weighing-up Eric Idle fills in time by playing at being a DJ
CELEBRATED spoof of local commercial radio's tendency towards miserly banality
"1! 9! 4! Radio Ciiiiiii-tteeeee!"
ONCE ALL-CONQUERING only realistic rival to the BBC
SHORT-LIVED gap in the market-spotting from one Richard Branson
ULTIMATE left-field choice for primetime signings in the form of pirate DJs stroke cottage industry Kid Tempo and The Ginger Prince
OSTENSIBLE late-night surfing of chart ubiquity of Guru Josh and Adamski trampled over by Rob Brydon
Dark-glassed frustrated musician who regularly serenaded his breakfast listeners or roadshow crowd with a quick strum through Alice's Restaurant
FRANTICALLY theme-tuned serial thriller starring Ray Barrett as punningly named scoop-scouring investigative journalist Rick O'Shea.
Resilient summer fixture, kickstarted by Fluff in the summer of 1973, in which a bunch of massive trucks visit various old-skool seaside...
SUPERIOR sound-only reading of Nick Hancock's Orwell-hued comedic discussion of all things disliked
Famed for Transatlantic mindblowing vocabulary all of his own
Then little more than ‘That Bloke Off The Last Resort’ roped in to do holiday cover on the more irreverent shows
'RELAXED' (ie still frighteningly academic and formal) light entertainment counterpart to Brain Of Britain
BRIAN MATTHEW-helmed attempt at doing a radio version of those hazy late-night highbrow arts review TV shows
Dependable format - get several pop pundits, plus a jury ‘foreman’ selected from The One's roster to review the week's new releases.
GAME ATTEMPT at doing an NME/Melody Maker-style ‘inky’ on air
Superb verge-of-megastardom knockabout
Surprise Broom Cupboard-fleeing addition to the roster
Fondly remembered long-time Capital mainstay in the Johnnie Walker 'DJ's DJ' mould
INHERITED weekly run-through of 'Old Ones, New Ones, Loved Ones, Neglected Ones' by mono-monickered pianist Semprini
LEGENDARY four-times-daily weather bulletin for marine types much beloved of the rest of the world for its muffled intonation of arcane terminology.
ILL-FITTING repositioning of Radio 4’s Graham Fellows-portrayed leading Yamaha-toter as a full-on Radio 1 DJ
PEERLESS fifteen minute Wireless Wanderings with 'versatile singer/songwriter from Sheffield, South Yorkshire' John Shuttleworth
SCARY, scary Sunday afternoon staple, usually broadcast just prior to Radio 1 taking over the FM transmitters for the Top Forty.
EVERETT-DISCOVERED stolid Radio 1 standby for all those regular slots which didn't call for ker-azy madcap DJ japes
ONE OF the original group of ex-pirates that sat on the steps to be photographed in 1967
ODDBALL Mark Radcliffe side project involving posing as a visiting alien
FLY ON THE WALL view of office life in Smoking Jackets-era NME
FOR a good while Mr BBC, but also managed to find time to become perhaps Radio 1's least memorable Breakfast Show presenter.
ANOTHER of those Beerling period fresh-faced recruits who was handed the prime weekend-early-show-cum-ejector-seatslot.
TEXTBOOK pseudo-alternative deconstructionist-intro-festooned ‘anarchic’ sketch show from the pens of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, with joke-telling by Chris Barrie, Nick Maloney and...
DEPRESSING ‘Stilgoe Goes Indie’ comedy song showcase
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