Radio

[suzannewozere2]

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Mum had a valve radio in the kitchen which I used to have to tune back in to radio 2 if I managed to listen to the hairy cornflake (DLT) or mike read on 1 in the morning.
If we were at home it was Terry Wogan, Pete Murray and Jimmy Young with Waggoners Walk, Listen with Mother, Womans hour and The Archers in between.
Later though she discovered Robbie Vincents phone in show on Radio London.
I liked our tune and the golden hour but hated Steve Wright. We smuggled tiny transistor radio's in to listen to the lunchtime chart show but registration always started just at the wrong time so even though we heard the announcement we could never hear the song.

[Austin 1100]

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Used to listen to Radio Luxembourg on my grandad's car radio, the reception fading in and out and always worse in the evenings.

Listened to Radio 1 in the mid 80s at work (before the managers banned radios from the factory). Steve Wright in the afternoon was my favourite, I used to crack up when one of his silly characters The Pub Singer started his drunken crooning lol!
The whole place used to go dead quiet when Simon Bates Our Tune came on in the mornings.

[sixtyten]

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I've just bought a great DAB radio, great stuff!! miles better than the normal Radio. My Favotite stations are 5Live Music and Chill

[steve edwards]

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back in about 87 i used to really enjoy radio 1 , with steve wright , gary,s bit in the middle , dlt , and our tune , but then it became rubbish and so i prefer radio 2 now but inly in the morning with sarah kennedy , ect

[Wil]

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Mum always listened to Radio 2 so that's what I grew up with. Pete Murray, Waggoner's Walk, etc. and that's what I still listen to now (with a bit of deviation to Radio 4). I'd go to Capital on a Saturday lunchtime for Kenny Everett and Captain Kremmen and if I was listening under the covers of a nighttime I'd scan the short wave for odd foreign stations and exotic sounding forces radio.

http://www.radiorewind.co.uk

is a great place if you grew up with Radio 1 or just fancy a quick trip back to the 70s. Lots of clips!

[Mulletino]

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I used to have a really old wooden radio that lit up and was about 2 foot wide which I used to listen to under the bed and pretend I was in a spaceship.

Also remember when Essex Radio was first launched and you used to be able to go into their building at Southend and write request/dedication slips (like you used to in clubs) which they'd read out on air.

[sixtyten]

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Southern Counties Radio used to play that to death when it was out (1994)
one hit wonder Josuha Kadison

[sixtyten]

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Radio..
Lordy, where do you start?
as we all know, our memory can link certain smells,sounds, all kinds of things to an era, or date,year,etc.
I was a Radio Luxembourg listener, under covers sometimes, but as I went to bed far earlier than the rest of my family, normally just a radio playing in the room.
The static,hiss,silvarkrin hairspray ads,Emperor Rosco, the power play,
all good memories
My big " timewarp" is Roberta Flack's "Killing me softly"

As soon as I hear that song, I'm back to a world of fab 208, my tiny old bedroom and Spiderman comics

Why Spiderman??

The first UK Spiderman comics weekly (with the free mask/or flyer from next edition) had just been issued..
and it was the ONLY time in my life, we had a paperboy deliver it on day of publication.

HAPPY DAYS!!

[Burbs]

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mine was radio luxembourg !!!!!!!!
Gentleman of a certain age me thinks !

Used to listen Sunday nights especially ........ Funky disco countdown and trying to tape it without the presenters taling all over it !!!!!!!

one I particularly rememebr was searching by Change

[danbakuk]

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I remember when Atlantic 252 came out with Kevin Kevin and Dusty Roads and Robin Banks, all the dj's had stupid names. But these days I love Chris moyles and Vernon Kaye on a Sunday. My local stations too - Radio Cumbria and CFM

I remember Atlantic.... for a while it was the best radio station around but then i stopped listening and i hadnt for years until yesterday! (spooky init)

It sounded naff the Dj was blatantly from Yorkshire trying to do a hip American accent

[sixtyten]

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Lazer 558,Radio Pussycat,Radio Jackie!

[andria]

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I remember when Atlantic 252 came out with Kevin Kevin and Dusty Roads and Robin Banks, all the dj's had stupid names. But these days I love Chris moyles and Vernon Kaye on a Sunday. My local stations too - Radio Cumbria and CFM

[Heather74]

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Anyone else remember when the presenters/D.J's sounded old like your dad,now they sound like a friend or your brother/sister ,or even worse Niece or Nephew. wahaaaa.:cry: I dont yet have to say kids.PHEW

[Oggy]

radio under the blankets, and comics by torchlight, heaven.

[The Imposter]

tinny transistor under the bedcovers, trying to tune into anything in english. You finally found a song in english and when it finishes the DJ starts gibbering in some indeterminable language you've never heard before or since. ... Happy days.