TV Cream
Radio 2
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227Black Cinderella Two Goes East
WITH Alternative Comedy looming on the horizon like a manic snorting lisping bloke saying "Barstard!", a meeting of minds took place between...
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169BRANDON, Tony
DID the early shift prior to Ray Moore
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2231BRUCE, Ken
FOOTBALL TRANSFER-esque signing from BBC Radio Scotland, enticed Londonwards in the mid-seventies with the promise of a headlining slot
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1581
CARRINGTON, Desmond
LONG-SERVING wheel-taker of Two's Bisto-centric Sunday lunchtime inspiration-freeness All Time Greats
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2752Comedy/Light Entertainment
By the mid seventies Radio 2 was already turning into a rest home for dwindling nightclub acts and those intriguingly billed 'all-round...
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2353
DUNN, John
UNSUITABLY monickered for those sung Radio 2 jingles
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1861Folk Weave
EXCRUCIATINGLY beardily-tradicraft-named Capstick-heralded slot of obvious musical leanings with the most schizophrenic content possible for a radio show
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180
Friday Night Is Music Night
BACHARACH-skewed counterpart to Radio 1's In Concert
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3146
Grumbleweeds’ Radio Show, The
Quasi-legendary, verging on the 'notorious' end of the scale, radio vehicle for the five-piece purveyors of finest 'joke'n'roll' whimsy.
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2183
HAMILTON, David ‘Diddy’
BACK in the seventies and eighties, the diminutive Hamilton divided his time between his Radio 2 afternoon show and Thames continuity duties
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3464
Hinge & Bracket
LONGSTANDING regular engagement for those two men posing as elderly female academics
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1902
HUNNIFORD, Gloria
EMERGENCY STANDBY meeting of 'blarney' quota during Old Tel's wanderings in televisual Peter Egan-interviewing
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2161
JACKSON, Jack
PIONEERING bandleader-turned-DJ who single-handledly dragged the BBC out of the chaps-in-suits era by playing nothing but pesky 'gramaphone records'
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2233
JACOBS, David
ADVANCED-LEVEL Big Band-fixated roller-back-of-the-clock extraordinaire
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1792
JAMESON, Derek
"MORNIN' MORNIN', Jameson 'ere!". Unfortunately.
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3335
LESTER, Alex
CYNIC PAR EXCELLENCE of the R2 nightshift for the best part of 20 years of whom the dreaded TOGs offered approving words...
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2383
MATTHEW, Brian
FROM Saturday Club hip young gunslinger (well, sort of) in the sixties, to the 21st century, which finds him in almost exactly...
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MOORE, Ray
EARLY SHOW ultra-dry behemoth of fond remembrance
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2052
MURRAY, Pete
Ultrasmooth compere of mid-morning roving doorchime-themed Open House
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1812
Organist Entertains, The
SHIP-IN-A-BOTTLE-like relic from an earlier age of Radio 2
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2626
PARKINSON, Michael
SERIAL-defecting grumpy bastard outstaying his welcome on Sunday mornings
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1581
Ricochet
FRANTICALLY theme-tuned serial thriller starring Ray Barrett as punningly named scoop-scouring investigative journalist Rick O'Shea.
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2133
Round Midnight
BRIAN MATTHEW-helmed attempt at doing a radio version of those hazy late-night highbrow arts review TV shows
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2804
Semprini Serenade
INHERITED weekly run-through of 'Old Ones, New Ones, Loved Ones, Neglected Ones' by mono-monickered pianist Semprini
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2287
Sing Something Simple
SCARY, scary Sunday afternoon staple, usually broadcast just prior to Radio 1 taking over the FM transmitters for the Top Forty.
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2413
Sounds Of The Sixties
STARTED off as your standard-issue 'swinging hits of the Flower Power days of Merseybeat, daddio!' run-through of the hits of yesteryear
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1942
Sport On Two
SATURDAY afternoon sporting concoction of football, county cricket and the 3.15 from Chepstow
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2721
Waggoner’s Walk
TWO'S daily soap, created as a more 'happening' version of The Dales
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2584
WOGAN, Terry
"I don't know what's going on here but I wish it would stop".
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2465
You, The Night And The Music
AS FAMOUSLY heralded by frequence-fixated Kings Singers trillery, Radio 2 proudly became the first BBC station in the country to go 24...
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3101
YOUNG, Jimmy
"MRS Thatcher's favourite broadcaster" but we won't hold that against him