Random radio jottings

It was a warm summer evening in 1960. Lord Montague, he of the Vintage Car Museum fame, was hosting the fifth jazz festival at Beaulieu Pala...

Fifty years ago the world was going space crazy. All eyes were on what was going on 'up there' as three intrepid astronauts bla...

Both the novelty value (there was an in-vision edition of In Town Tonight as far back as 1954) and the necessity (stereo broadcasts o...

"A mighty maze of mystic rays is all about us in the blue." So sang Adele Dixon in the opening programme of the new BBC Televis...

Throughout the 1960s he was the unflappable safe pair of hands, equally adept at anchoring election coverage, moon landings, current affa...

In the first part of Trumpton Riots Brian Cant remembered the worlds of Noggin the Nog, Jones the Steam and the Soup Dragon. Due to popul...

As a sidebar to the Gilbert Harding post I noticed that the Radio Times billings for What’s My Line and Twenty Questions would always in...

This is the man who signed off from one radio show with: “ I'm fed up with this idiotic game; as for the score, if you've be...

Fifty years ago today viewers to BBC TV saw the first edition of Top of the Pops . You’ll see or hear nothing on the usually anniversary-c...

On BBC Four tonight there’s a showing of the rock opera Tommy .   As usual the authors of the weekly Creamguide , from those lovely pe...