Back in May
1983 Top of the Pops celebrated its
1000th edition and BBC Radio 1 joined in with a simultaneous broadcast and a
history of the show introduced by Richard Skinner.
Firstly
here’s what went out on Radio 1 only for the 10 minutes before TOTP and then half an hour afterwards.
And here’s that night’s edition of the show complete with an introductory chat between Richard Skinner and David Jacobs that also aired on BBC1.
Both recordings are exactly as I committed them to tape that day and include the voices of presenters who are now ‘persona non grata’. I have made no further digital edits.
Update (December 2023): The studio set Christmas specials ended in 2021. BBC Four repeats continue and we're now up to 1995.
Hi Andy, Top of the Pops remains a popular weekly radio show outside the uk, licensed to hundreds of FM radio stations around the world.
ReplyDeleteIt's presented by Kim Robson (also of Eagle Radio).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/emp/pop.shtml?p=/worldservice/meta/tx/flash/toppops.xml&l=en&t=audio