Christmas Countdown - 16 December - Joel & Lorna

Great fun with Joel Ross and Lorna Bancroft on Heart North West a year ago today. On this show Lorna's feeling under the weather, producer Jordan Hemingway has been on a date but Joel has some upsetting news about his cat. Tomorrow the Dark Lord. 

Christmas Countdown - 15 December - JK & Lucy

I've not heard JK and Joel since their days on Radio 1, apart from once catching Joel on Yorkshire Coast Radio. So on this day last year I dipped into Heart London's drivetime show with Jason King and Lucy Horobin. This was a very slick affair: no talkie bit seemed to last more than a minute, it was mostly two or three record segues and editing out the ads, news and all but one traffic report I've reduced a three-hour show to just 18 minutes! Tomorrow Joel & Lorna. 

Rob and Chrissie

DJ departures in the commercial sector can be swift, almost brutal. Listeners to Smooth’s Pat Sharp and Kid Jensen won’t have heard them say goodbye this week.  But on Heart East Anglia it was a different story as the duo that have woken up listeners for the last fourteen years, Rob Chandler and Chrissie Jackson, got a full, and at times emotional, send-off.

This is how that final show sounded. (With thanks to David Lloyd).

Rob and Chrissie originally teamed up on Radio Broadland, with Rob on the breakfast show for 27 years in total. Dipping into my Broadland archive (yes I have one thanks to some Broads boating holidays!) here’s Chrissie in the afternoons in 1989 and Rob at breakfast in 1988 and 1989.

And as I’ve dug out the Radio Broadland tapes here are some more clips from 1988 and 1989. The DJs I can identify are Dave Brown, Paul Thompson, Mike Stewart.

Link to Rob & Chrissie website

Christmas Countdown – 8 December – Heart Breakfast

Jamie Theakston’s usual partner on Heart Breakfast in London was Harriet Scott (who’s just left the show after seven years) but this time last year Emma Bunton was sitting in – we even get a Spice Girls track.

At 32 minutes in see how many of the tasks you still do that have now been replaced by new technology.
 

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Tomorrow BBC Newcastle.