FINAL throw of the dice for the recurring (up to then, at least) ‘irreverent music magazine’ format
STARTED off as your standard-issue 'swinging hits of the Flower Power days of Merseybeat, daddio!' run-through of the hits of yesteryear
SPORTSNIGHT-esque early morning magazine roundup of the week's events
SATURDAY afternoon sporting concoction of football, county cricket and the 3.15 from Chepstow
TOP FORTY-following guest spot
SUMMER HOLIDAY kiddie-bait, featuring most of the original cast reprising eyewidemaking lasercentric space opera but (and here's the central flaw) on the...
CHAMELEONIC Monday morning discussion show
'STEWPOT' was briefly king of all media in the seventies
EPIC-LENGTH pseudo-academic study of how we'd got from delta blues to Barry Blue in only fifty two moves
SUNDAY AFTERNOON ‘do it yourself’ listener contribution-based music magazine
Macabre anthology sitcom from Week Ending mainstays Ian Brown and James Hendrie
Round-the-clock provider of actual genuine 'talk', much of it provided by unusually 'talk'-friendly roster
SERIOUS-MINDED ’let’s forget about pop music for a minute’ opportunity to air views on the real issues affecting listeners
Relatively polite mildly raised-eyebrow-enhanced version of A Question Of Sport
MONTH-LONG prizestravaganza, purely coincidentally coinciding with annual survey of radio ratings.
RESHUFFLE replacement for Pick Of The Pops in Sunday lunchtime oldies slot
Heavyweight early morning news droneathon
A nation's teens pressed Rec and Play on their big brother's shiny silver Amstrad ghetto blaster, and prepared to create their very...
The Hairy Cornflake presided over the breakfast show in the late seventies, spending time inbetween at his charming Buckinghamshire farm with his...
LONE surviving outpost of witticism in post-reinvention 'Five Live'
SUBLIME filling of the popular-cultural no-man's-land between Christmas Day and New Year's Day with a set of short but charming mini-documentaries on...
LONG-SERVING musical opener to the day's broadcasting
RACY sitcom antics with bedhopping chocolate-guzzling modern bachelorette Izzy
‘TV ON THE RADIO!’ gag-overusing possessor of an entire Blake’s 7 episode location-friendly Cornish quarry down his gravel throat
NORMSKI-propogated dance music 'news' roundup
CRANK phonecall-wielding late night humour from the one-time hi-tech one-man lunatic fringe of comedy
CONQUERING Hull station which breathed life into the country’s most populous backwater area and still dominates the locality to this day.
UTTERLY INSANE technologically regressive courting of the 'moaner' listenership launched amidst much 'back to basics' Classic Rock hoo-hah
PEEL HOLIDAY substitute drollery from the unpredictable rock’n’roll humourist
TWO'S daily soap, created as a more 'happening' version of The Dales
Yet another easy on the ear, just-the-music presenter.
Loquacious anecdote-dispensing machine and longtime Peel Show producer John Walters fronting an ‘oik’s eye view’ roundup of happenings in the art and...
ONCE-UNSTOPPABLE weekly topical revue
IMPROV-HEAVY panel game whose legacy has far outweighed its paltry six-episode tally.
TOKEN children's series narrated by national treasure and 'Wiggly Park Wally' Andrew Sachs
Pro-feminist talk-in with Jo Brand and Donna McPhail
"I don't know what's going on here but I wish it would stop".
Sue Macgregor-fronted hotchpotch of examination of current affairs from a 'female' slant, interviews with arts and crafts-toting eccentrics, and fifteen-minute drama inserts
RADIO ONE's original purveyor of In The Afternoon zoo-style bollocks
LONG-RUNNING consumer affairs roundup with a light touch
AS FAMOUSLY heralded by frequence-fixated Kings Singers trillery, Radio 2 proudly became the first BBC station in the country to go 24...
"MRS Thatcher's favourite broadcaster" but we won't hold that against him
DO YOU have fond memories of a local or even national Non-BBC radio station that we haven't got listed here?
Richard Easter-propelled not-as-bad-as-it’s-remembered-as-being lampoonery of all things Q Magazine
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