Christmas Countdown - 4 December - Forgotten 80s

My Twitter feed normally gets quite busy on a Sunday evening when Forgotten 80s airs on Absolute 80s. Presenter Matthew Rudd writes that the show "delves deeply into the annals of 80s music, featuring the underplayed and the almost completely forgotten, with the intention of rehabilitating the music of a decade that too many people are quick to scorn".

This time last year Absolute 80s was celebrating its seventh birthday. Unlike other posts in this series I've left all the music and adverts intact.

Christmas Countdown – 17 December – Frank Skinner

The notion of getting the nation’s funny men to play DJ probably started in the 1980s with Lenny Henry.  A year ago Absolute Radio offered us shows with Frank Skinner and Dave Gorman, who left the station just last month. 

Today’s advent calendar radio offering is part of Frank’s show from 17 December 2011. With him in the studio are Alun Cochrane and Emily Dean.
 

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Tomorrow it’s the Sunday chart shows.