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iwarburton
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 Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:54 am Post subject: Triple Celebration in 2008? |
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It occurs to me that there are three interrelated anniversaries coming up next year.
It'll be 25 years since Sounds of the Sixties started.
It'll be 50 years since the first edition of Saturday Club.
It'll be Brian Matthew's 80th birthday.
Sounds to me that R2 should be planning something big as a celebration.
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nod
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Did sounds of the sixties only start in 1983 ? |
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Peter de Meteor
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject: Smart-alec facetious comment #2. |
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| nod wrote: | | Did sounds of the sixties only start in 1983 ? |
Surely they started in the Sixties?
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John W
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Peter de Meteor wrote: | | nod wrote: | | Did sounds of the sixties only start in 1983 ? |
Surely they started in the Sixties? |
No, just like we don't yet have a Sound of the Eighties, there wasn't a Sound of the Sixties till 1983.
Ian, did Brian Matthew present SOTS in 1983? He was still presenting Round Midnight then. I know Simon Dee had a spell in 1988 but I don't have info before that. What night/time was it on in the 80's?
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Helen May
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| Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure Sounds of the Sixties started as recently as 1983 Ian?
I'm sure I heard it before I moved from the NE and that was in 83.
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Ella Sailyour
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At some point it was produced at the BBC's Whiteladies Road, Bristol, studios back in the day when Siiiiiiiiiiiiimon Deeeeeeeeeee came out of exile to present it (for a short period). Dunno if that was pre-1983 though. I'm sure John W. gave some info on this a while back.
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What about:-
Prototype maiden flight of F4H-1, 27 May 1958. 50th Anniversary
Service entry of F4K into the RN FAA 30 April 1968. 40th Anniversary.
Barking Biker. 60th Birthday 2008.
F4 - The first true multirole combat aircraft and the most successful western military aircraft since WW II.
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iwarburton
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According to a website, the location of which I can't now recall, SOTS was first broadcast in February 1983. This tallies with my own admittedly rough recollection.
Its first presenter was Keith Fordyce. After he left there was a whole long list of guest presenters of variable calibre before Simon Dee had a spell on. He used to refer to the listeners as crumblies.
Brian Matthew has been its presenter since 1990.
I should have aded a fourth relevant anniversary, namely that in 2008 it will be 60 years since Brian Matthew's first broadcast.
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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Of course Radio 1 will be 40 years old come September, so consequently that means it's also 40 years since 'The Light Programme' turned into Radio 2. I wonder what, if any, celebrations there will be to mark those occasions.
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Helen May
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| iwarburton wrote: | Its first presenter was Keith Fordyce. After he left there was a whole long list of guest presenters of variable calibre before Simon Dee had a spell on. He used to refer to the listeners as crumblies.
Brian Matthew has been its presenter since 1990.
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Hi Ian
After I'd posted about 83 I had a feeling that I'd heard Keith Fordyce present a show. It must have been before June which is when we moved. I knew I'd heard it back up north!
I used to have a cassette of Simon Dee presenting but think it got detroyed.
H
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