tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post5221820246368156186..comments2024-03-18T20:52:42.375+01:00Comments on Random radio jottings: Down Your Local - Pennine RadioAndy Walmsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647763223166778941noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-63136456377054069102020-12-31T12:33:25.969+01:002020-12-31T12:33:25.969+01:00I can give you some information about Julius K Scr...I can give you some information about Julius K Scragg. I have a tape from BBC Radio Manchester 'Baron from the BBC' show from 1975. Julius talked briefly as he was going to do a programme called 'New Voices' at 10pm the same evening. JKS was nervous as it was his first time on radio. Subsequently (as you said) he had a career on Pennine Radio Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02689745460249357745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-75987705316236252542017-02-01T23:11:59.723+01:002017-02-01T23:11:59.723+01:00Paul Needle was a curate at Pudsey Parish Church a...Paul Needle was a curate at Pudsey Parish Church and did weekly religious programming on Radio Leeds, then Pennine Radio, then Radio Aire.<br /><br />Backroom sports staff at Pennine Radio 1975 to 1978 were Keith Giles and Ashley Barker. Ashley Barker was an actor who went on to appear in Coronation Street.PhotoHistorianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09576094513975749805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-45902376407325327972015-07-03T16:47:00.095+02:002015-07-03T16:47:00.095+02:00Dorothy Box married and became Dorothy Farell and ...Dorothy Box married and became Dorothy Farell and was living in Pudsey and was working at Leeds University the last time I spoke to her.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865074010539689501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-51080857452808663932011-10-21T13:06:44.940+02:002011-10-21T13:06:44.940+02:00The Frazer Hines/Gerald Harper connection had occu...The Frazer Hines/Gerald Harper connection had occurred to me too. Gerald did a similar show on Radio 2 also, as did Sacha Distel.<br />I recall the DIY Mike Smith from daytime telly in the Yorkshire region.<br />Funny you should mention the Right Reverend Reverend Wright - watch out for a post this coming Monday.Andy Walmsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13647763223166778941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-28573919690834579622011-10-21T11:43:13.553+02:002011-10-21T11:43:13.553+02:00That Frazer Hines show is clearly modelled on Gera...That Frazer Hines show is clearly modelled on Gerald Harper's efforts on Capital. Frazer later turned up, doing a 1 hour weekly spot on Radio Aire in the early nineteen eighties, which lasted months at most. <br /><br />Mike Smith joined Radio Aire in 81 as their first sports editor, and Yorkshiremen and women may remember him on TV as host of Pro-Celebrity Ten Pin Bowling (I kid you not) on YTV. Not to be confused with the other Mike Smith, who also worked at YTV hosting DIY programmes, or the other other one we're all familiar with!<br /><br />Note that the hour devoted to Meeting Place means the other some other specialist slots reduced to just one hour a month on Saturdays. Meeting Place stayed, moving around the schedule anywhere from 7 pm to 9.30 pm, until it was shunted to medium wave with the launch of Classic Gold, and presumably killed when Bradford City Radio (later Sunrise) launched. <br /><br />You mention Roger Kirk, Mike Hurley, and Peter Levy as also working at Aire/Magic 828. There was quite a bit of cross-county traffic, including Richard James (who also popped up at Home 107.9 in Huddersfield as PC), Martin Kelner (who did lunchtime on Pennine after he and Andy Kershaw were disposed of when Aire was really struggling in 1983), and Ross Dickinson, who finished at Aire at 7pm on a Friday and was on Pennine at 9 the next morning! Ross was also on Home, doing a bizarre voice tracked drive time show for a while.<br /><br />Peter Levy as the voice of progressive rock sounds an interesting proposition! Perhaps he was a die-hard Frampton fan all along, although at Aire, he was very much cast as the housewives' favourite, and had an Album Show which was heavy on Streisand, Manilow, etc.<br /><br />Finally, Radio Active fans will wonder if Sunday's vicar is in any way related to the Right Reverend Reverend Wright?qxr963https://www.blogger.com/profile/16881099482533297012noreply@blogger.com