Radio 3 was just coming to the end of a two-month
celebration of 70 years since the launch of its predecessor the Third Programme
when In Tune hosted this finale from
the Goonhilly Earth Station on this day last year.
Joining Sean Rafferty
are Will Gregory (of Goldfrapp) with his suitably space-aged Moog Orchestra,
members of the BBC Concert Orchestra, composer Graham Fitkin, boys and girls of
Truro Cathedral Choir, and award-winning Cornish folk group The Changing Room.
Sam Pinkham and Amy Voce had been keeping listeners
entertained at breakfast for over ten years on Heart and then GEM 106. The
award-winning duo were also 'in vision' on Notts TV. In September of this year
they left GAM for Virgin.
On 6 December last year our duo were organising a stealth
raid on the Christmas decorations, having a group hug and running an unusual
feature that Amy was sure wouldn't work.
At the 2016 Gillard Awards the station of the year went to
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire. The station's breakfast show claims (or
claimed) to be "the first fully female-fronted breakfast show in the UK".
Trish Adudu and Jo Tidman took over the slot at the beginning of 2016. From
March of this year it was just Trish presenting the show whilst Jo concentrated
on the news reports.
A year ago Coventry City had crashed out of the FA Cup and
June Brown, aka Dot Cotton off of EastEnders
was been asked to stay on soap until she was 90. Despite what you hear in this edited
version you'll have to trust me when I tell you that I cut out numerous
references to Dot Cotton "hanging up her tabard".
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.
You're either 'blues' or 'reds' as far as listeners to Radio
City's football show are concerned. Ian St John (Liverpool) and Ian Snodin
(Everton) get together to chew the fat and field listeners calls on Saturday
lunchtimes. I love the reaction to Everton manager Ronald Koeman having to
change his Christmas tree decorations because there was too much red (see photo below). Presenting
the programme this time last year was Alan Irwin sitting in for Mick Coyle.
Jack FM is an odd station. Multi-award winning yet
essentially it's just a breakfast show; the rest of the day it's a radio
jukebox. Mind you the breakfast show is a pretty lively affair with Trevor
Marshall, traffic reports from a guy who's so laid back he's positively
horizontal and sarcastic interjections from The Voice of Jack, Paul Darrow. Jack
FM assume you won't be listening all the way through so some features are
repeated such as the chat with Jack 2's Rich Smith. This is the sound of Jack's Morning Glory this time last
year.
Welcome to the first if this year's audio advent calendar
posts. Each day in the run-up to Christmas I'll be offering a slice of radio
from exactly one year ago.
When I last did this kind of thing in 2012 (with shows from
December 2011) Chris Moyles had just left his Radio 1 breakfast show. Since
then he's played Herod, lost weight, spent time in the radio wilderness and
then returned to launch Radio X in September 2015. Listening to this 1 December
2016 breakfast show it's as if we've gone back in time. The Cheesy Song intro,
Dom, requests for Dominic the Donkey
and even the old Music 4 Advent jingles. It either shows a degree of
consistency or a lack of imagination.
When I edit these programmes down I cut out the music and
retain most of the speech, but with Chris the first 40 minutes was all speech,
this despite him having a cold, so I've edited this quite a bit.
There's nod to Chris's radio pedigree with a mention of Carl
Kingston from his Radio Aire days, some seemingly off-the-cuff fun with Jose
Mourhino and Whigfield and a big plug for The
Grand Tour.
