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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

So what do you all think? I'm enjoying it. I think it's the sort of thing that should be on a Saturday evening and should be a more permanent fixture.
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Minx · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject:

It's great! Terrific radio, and he sounds to be enjoying it as much, if not more, than we are! I could get used to this Laughing

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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6851

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

It's fab isn't it! I can remember it like it was yesterday Sad

Love the John Lennon jingles!

H
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88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!

I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005

becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6851

Lovin' the news as well...go Johnnie go... Cool

Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7228 Location: North Yorkshire

Yes it has exceeded all expectations, the best new thing on Radio 2 in a long while. I hope it will run and run. Very Happy

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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

I feel I should be recording it on a reel to reel tape recorder somehow!

H
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88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!

I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005

becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6851

These two hours are just going to whizz by..the first one has ....

Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7228 Location: North Yorkshire

I am recording it, but sadly not on reel to reel. Can you still buy these tapes because I still have the machine?
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

I don't think so Angela but if you Google you may find some or on Ebay. I suppose it wouldn't matter if they were recorded on as you could just record over.

Ours only works on 2 speeds. I think I'll get it out tomorrow to see what is on it!

H
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88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!

I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

Angela

I've just done a search on Ebay and come up with this.
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1311&_nkw=reel+to+reel+tape&_sacat=See-All-Categories

They have a manual to our machine!

H
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88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!

I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005

Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7228 Location: North Yorkshire

Ours works on two speeds too. We have lots of tapes but I wouldn't want to record over any of them, there are too many treasures!
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Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7228 Location: North Yorkshire

Thanks for the link Helen, I will have a good look through these items.
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

You're welcome Angela.

I wonder if he'll play All My Loving to finish? Apparently he used to end his last show before shore leave with it.

H
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88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!

I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005

becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6851

I think this young fella me lad could go far..... Wink

.....i like his style ..and taste in music..... Cool

Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7228 Location: North Yorkshire

I have never known two hours to pass so quickly, I can't wait for next Saturday night! Very Happy

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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

LOL Becky, you could be right there.........

Wish it wasn't so close to the end.

H
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88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!

I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

Did I mis hear him say the Temptations did Baby I Need Your Loving?

Ah he's just said Four Tops at the end.

H
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88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!

I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005

becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6851

He is only young though,H Laughing

.........give him time ... Wink

Was a super duper show Cool

Red Baron · Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 120

Enjoyed it too - 2 hours went far too fast!

Recorded it on one of those new fangled box things that don't need tape Smile

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

I just had a thought, I hope they aren't going to leave it off the listen again because it's supposed to be going back in time........ I haven't recorded it yet.

H

PS Bob Harris is making a good start tonight!
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I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Twas a good show. I do hope they incorporate a track listing page on the website as they weren't all the well known tracks that he played. Johnnie Walker followed by the equally mighty Bob Harris. Are we getting our Saturday evenings back? I do hope so!
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Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7228 Location: North Yorkshire

Is it possible to record something on listen again? I have never tried because I didn't think you could.
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becky sharp · Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 6851

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

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Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7228 Location: North Yorkshire

Thanks again Helen for this info. I will have to investigate, but it might be beyond my capabilities!
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

What a fantastic show. The production was brilliant with some old & new jingles. The music was brilliant. You are can only to do the old method by writing to the show.

Lady Boil De Spudswell · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 429 Location: Location, Location

Should you require more I see that 'Pirate BBC Essex' also starts this afternoon 3-4pm!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/articles/2009/02/05/tim_gillett_feature.shtml
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

I'd just seen that as well LBDS!

H
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88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!

I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Meant to record the show and completely forgot (Jokes about senior moments and head like a sieve on a postcard...)

Music Played and Listen Again up and running. Will have to dip in after JW finishes at 9.30, although i-player sounds as though it's fighting a battle with something along the way this morning.

What with this and POTP and SOTS and Suzi Quatro we'll be getting complaints that there's too much 60s music on Radio 2 Wink

Helen, thanks for that link to the tape recorder drive belt and instruction kits! I have a Philips N4416 which has been in the loft for the last 25 years - still looks like new but I know it needs those at least.
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

You're welcome Ron!

Sometimes the links you see on these pages are more helpful than what you were originally searching for. I've lost count of problems I've solved in a roundabout way.

I'm going to get ours up a running when I've time as there are some really old tapes waiting to be played.

H
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88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!

I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

colby · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 1216

Hello, first post here. Be gentle with me please Smile

It is on Listen again. I am recording it right now. And yes, it's sounding tremendous. Johnnie W. as I remember him from years gone by when I first herd him on Caroline when I used to stay at my great aunt's in north London in the summer of 65, 66 and 67 where i listened on a little Sony tranny radio.

I wonder where it was recorded? It's not a BBC studio "sound" at all. It sounds much the better for it tho'.

Minx · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:16 pm Post subject:

Welcome Colby. And thanks for the information., It was a great show but I missed the end so will listen again.
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SantaFefan · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:15 pm Post subject:

Well I'm doubly depressed... Sad

Not only did I miss the show, I can't get it to play on the i player either.... but I'll be there this Saturday with my finger on the record button!
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SantaFefan · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject:

well I'm blowed... I read the "why won't my iplayer work" blurb and followed the instructions to enable this and override that and now it's working for my dial up connection... Embarassed

and it's sounding absolutely great!
Soon as I hear "Because They're Young" I go goose bumps...
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colby · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 1216

What I like about it is that it sounds so completely different to all the other (incredibly bland) legal radio stations out there now. Johnnie sounds like he's really enjoying it, which is a feeling you just don't get with any other station you listen to these days (especially all those putrid local commercial stations presented by robots and aimed at people with no brains, not surprising when considering that the stations just exist to deliver ears to advertisers).

Yep, it's a real breath of fresh air. Sea air in fact! Smile

SantaFefan · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject:

Magic days for sure Colby... ( welcome to the board by the way! Razz

) I'm so glad I experienced them as a teenager. I was so excited when I first heard Caroline on 199 - at last, radio for us!
Jw's out on the deck now .. but what's with the Seagulls at night?? Laughing

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Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

All that was slightly before my time. I came to the UK in 1968 & Radio 1 was already on air. I recall Tony Blackburn at breakfast!
Radio caroline continued intermitently for some years, but what I remember from my teenage years in the 70s was Radio Luxemburg.. that was very big at the time. thben capital & LBC came on air & took over!
I listened to a bit of JW on listen again. his conceit that he was broadcasting from a ship in the midst of a gale quite amusing.
I see he even extends that conceit, that it is the early 60s, to the only way to contact the show being by postcard!!!

BTW, anyone remember Radio Luxemburg? I also recall a country music show on a station, not the beeb, on a saturday night.. I think it was on Luxemberg??