Random radio jottings

Friday, 29 April 2016

As heard on radio

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This year the Grim Reaper is, it seems, intent on populating his own light entertainment cast. Only last week we lost the supreme writer ...
Thursday, 28 April 2016

I once made a programme about that for Radio 4

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BBC Radio Norfolk boss and regular presenter of Treasure Quest - a mad dash around the county by car in search of clues but without the ...
Monday, 11 April 2016

Still Whispering at 70

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Bob Harris celebrates his 70th birthday today. Music-loving Bob has always carefully crafted his radio shows and championed the cause of ...
Monday, 4 April 2016

Sound Digital

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In March radio station launches were like buses, nothing for months and then a handful came along all at once. These new stations were part...
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Thursday, 31 March 2016

Take a Place Like Goole

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For almost ten years my adopted hometown was Goole. At the time, roughly the mid-1980s to the mid-90s, I was both living and working ther...
Friday, 25 March 2016

What the Papers Say

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One of the last vestiges of 1950s commercial television disappears this Sunday as What the Papers Say , residing on Radio 4 for the last ...
Thursday, 17 March 2016

Radio Lives - Cliff Michelmore

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Throughout the 1960s he was the unflappable safe pair of hands, equally adept at anchoring election coverage, moon landings, current affa...
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Andy Walmsley
Hailing originally from Hull and spending most of my life in East Yorkshire I'm now resident in France. For over 40 years I've been interested in radio, tv and film and have an archive of off-air recordings and radio-related material.
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