Radio

[Oggy]

My mate Sniff must have been one of the first kids I knew to have one of those big Tv/Radio/Cassette player things, he carried it round everywhere he went.

[sixtyten]

Fab 208! under the bedclothes..
I too was a late night listener in the mid 70's, the powerplay,hairspray ads,bad reception..those were the days!!

[David]

I used to love Talk Radio (now Talksport) listening to a presenter called "Ceaser the Geezer" winding everyone up lol and especially listening to Ian Collins and the Creatures of the Night. They had features called "Who's Talking Cack" and "****** Of The Week" and the Creatures had names like "Kev The Wondersheep" and "Miff The Merciless" it was a great laugh

They don't do that anymore :cry:

I also listened to Diana Luke whom I consider "The Sexiest Voice On Radio" I remember lying in bed late at night listening to her on Radio 2, wishing that they didn't play any music so that all I could hear was her voice.

I used to keep up with her when she changed stations, but I've since lost her because the last I knew, she moved to Hallam FM which I can't get.

[SpiralCoolStuff]

My fave radio station is one of our local ones called Energy FM. Lots of music on there, comps where you can phone/text/email in to win prizes and such. I love it I used to like Radio 1 but havnt listened to it for a while. Carpark Catchphrase used to crack me up!

[dondons69]

On our local radio station simon bates is back doing "our tune" at noon, that music still makes me well up!

[daubers]

i listen to our local radio station(pirate fm) as it plays most of the older songs i used to listen to when growing up.
i dont listen to radio 1 anymore as the music(if thats what they call some of it)they have now aint realy up to much anymore

[Van_Whistler]

I used to listen to Radio 2 as a kid every night in bed.
There was a programme with "Whistle While you Work" as the theme jingle. Later in the evening, depending what day it was, you had either Grumbleweeds or News Huddlines. Then Round Midnight with Brian Matthew, using Cat Stevens' song "Matthew & Son" as theme jingle.

Simon Bates 'Our Tune' and Bits & Pieces on the Radio 1 Roadshow.

I remember `Our Tune`, I used to listen to Radio 1 most days. That was when Radio 1 used to be good, now its a load of old twaddle.
and I loved Bits n Pieces on the roadshows.... and I`m sorry to brag but I used to get nearly all of them right cos I was well in to my music scene then. dont know how I`d fare nowadays!

[Trace]

Anyone remember listening to the charts and taping the songs you liked....trying to get the song and not the DJ. And the waiting for ages while he read through them all again so you could find out what number one was. And there were different charts depending on who you listened to. Radio one always had one answer but David Kid Jensen had something else...cant remember what station he was on. It was the Pepsi Chart if my minds serves me correctly...and it doesnt do that a lot!

I totally did that. Sunday night was chart night - right?

[Wil]

I love radio. Especially fiddling about on short wave late at night when I was a kid. Tucked under the bedcovers, finding bizarre stuff like radio Moscow or forces radio with baseball match commentaries. It all seemed so exotic, somehow.

[Aidan]

Sorry to hear Stuart and Tommy are both gone, ar dheis De go raibh siad.
DJs don't seem to talk until the song is half over anymore - not that it matters, as we just download now...

[koukou]

Anyone remember listening to the charts and taping the songs you liked....trying to get the song and not the DJ. And the waiting for ages while he read through them all again so you could find out what number one was. And there were different charts depending on who you listened to. Radio one always had one answer but David Kid Jensen had something else...cant remember what station he was on. It was the Pepsi Chart if my minds serves me correctly...and it doesnt do that a lot!

[tanas]

Simon Bates 'Our Tune' and Bits & Pieces on the Radio 1 Roadshow.

I didnt know til I searched today on the link above that Tommy Vance is no longer with us either,he died from a stroke last year. such a shame we are losing all these wonderful people.

check out this link, sadly Stuart Henry is no longer with us,died in 1995.
http://www.radioacademy.org/halloffa..._s/index.shtml