John Peel – TV Cream

Your Wednesday Night In… February 1990

Wednesday, 21st February 1990 PICK OF THE DAY 10.35pm THE GOLDEN BREAK ADVERTISING AWARDS, ITV Wafer-sponsored Saturday Night Takeaway-anticipating one-off televisual presentation...

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It's Saturday Night

26. Whatever they do, we can do it better

The BBC’s head of variety, light entertainment group, Jim Moir took Noel Edmonds out for several lunches during 1982, to help the presenter shape...

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Your Friday Night In...

Your Friday Night In… May 1986

Friday, 9th May 1986 PICK OF THE DAY 7.40pm I’VE GOT A SECRET, BBC1 A long-running yet little-remembered transfer of the Allen...

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TV: T is for...

Top of the Pops’ Christmas Party

“NOW FOR SOMETHING BIG IN GREECE… BBC POTATOES!”: The glory years of TOTP at Christmas IT’S 25 DECEMBER. It’s 1400 hours Greenwich...

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Radio 1: The Shows

Christmas Party, The

BASED ON THE MISGUIDED THEORY that, if you were alone on Christmas Day, listening to a tape of Mike Read giving DLT...

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TV: L is for...

Late Late Breakfast Show, The

BOMBASTIC TEATIME behemoth which sprawled across half a decade

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Radio 1: The Jocks

BLACKBURN, Tony

FORMER RADIO LONDON PIRATE who became the first ever Radio 1 DJ bar none

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Radio 1: The Shows

Big Holy One, The

GOD-BOTHERING magazine show with Simon Mayo as lead sermon-giver

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Radio 1: The Jocks

BATES, Simon

BESPECTACLED HOUSEWIVES' CHOICE POLTROON who mystifyingly became a 'national phenomenon' in the eighties

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Radio 1: The Jocks

SKUES, Keith ‘Cardboard Shoes’

ONE OF the original group of ex-pirates that sat on the steps to be photographed in 1967

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Radio 1: The Jocks

SCHOFIELD, Philip

Surprise Broom Cupboard-fleeing addition to the roster

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Radio 1: The Shows

Walters’ Weekly

Loquacious anecdote-dispensing machine and longtime Peel Show producer John Walters fronting an ‘oik’s eye view’ roundup of happenings in the art and...

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Radio 1: The Jocks