DING-DONG! Onetime top pop-picker and regular face on Juke Box Jury (wherein he described Pink Floyd’s See Emily Play as, um, ‘a con’), turned ultrasmooth compere of mid-morning roving doorchime-themed Open House show, a bit like the Radio One Roadshow, but Coming To You Live from the Women’s Institute rather than Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Served-him-right dismissal resulted from on-air bigging up of Tories and urging Breakfast Time viewers to put their ‘X’ in Maggie’s box, catapulting him towards LBC and, lest we forget, Vintage Quiz.
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Top of the Pops
Thursday, 19.30, 01.05, BBC4For the first time in a while, two consecutive episodes, so it’s a completely different line-up to the last time and some belated debuts for Ian Dury and Sham 69 who we’d have otherwise seen two weeks ago, in a classic Pops juxtaposition with another Cilla flop and the first appearance of a record that, even skipping all the Savile and Travis episodes, you’re going to hear a hell of lot over the next few months.
In his commercial radio days, this man once went to the lavatory midway through his show, then forgot he was on air, got into his car and drove home.
I don’t think you can solely blame Pete for Syd’s madness.