Random radio jottings

With a career spanning seven decades Tony Bennett is the last of the American singers who goes back to the big band era. Most of his c...

The hundreds of shoppers who daily pass by Urban Outfitters and Schuh on London's Oxford Street will be unaware that the building a...

Asked to choose your favourite British radio DJs the chances are one of them will be on this list: David Jacob s, Alan Freeman , John Pee...

Set the controls for the 18th of February 1985. Imagine being able to fashion a radio time-travelling device that can receive your fa...

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...

In my late teens you may have found me browsing the record racks of Sydney Scarborough in Hull not just for the latest pop offerings, b...