BAKER-helmed ostensible post-match analysis, which through its hosts’ love of esoterica became the first stirrings of that strange mid-nineties drive to make football ‘accessible’ to non-sports fans. Phone-ins about inexplicable terrace fashions and the current whereabouts of retired players abounded, though by 1993 it had been rebranded – under the guardianship of David Mellor, no less – as a straight ahead ‘just the facts’ opinion-driven show providing endless coffer-swelling for libel-happy referees.
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Electric Dreams – The Giorgio Moroder Story
Monday, 22.00, BBC Radio 2Second part of this, where our hero moves slightly more towards the mainstream and starts penning film soundtracks, including the likes of Flashdance and Top Gun, plus of course The Never Ending Story which means we get to enjoy Limahl nestling alongside the rest of the heavyweight contributors, plus another film where his soundtrack is probably about a hundred times more famous now than the actual film. It’s the title of this programme, for a start.
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