Topic: When radio was king (Read 10617 times)

tonyH · « **Reply #25 on:** April 02, 2021, 08:28:46 pm »

It's so odd now thinking about Saturday mornings. Children's Favourites with "Billygoat Gruff and Tubby the Tuba", or a film at the local cinema. Or maybe, if you were dead lucky and a bit older (11), an Airfix Sopwith Camel!

(I suppose this could be a wistful emojie)

BrianB6 · « **Reply #26 on:** April 02, 2021, 10:21:33 pm »

Dan Dare at 6.45 p.m. on Radio Luxemburg

Mind you, since my Dad was a Radio and T.V. repairer we had a telly that he was repairing from early on. Usually out of it's case.

roycv · « **Reply #27 on:** April 03, 2021, 06:18:01 am »

Hi all, I was a keen Saturday morning pictures lad. Then someone told me that Dick Barton was on the radio on Saturday mornings. I stayed back to listen and was most disappointed to find I had heard it all before! I was yet to learn what 'Omnibus edition' meant!
regards
Roy

derekwarner · « **Reply #28 on:** April 03, 2021, 06:22:58 am »

1962 - 8:00 PM to midnight .....Saturday night from Sydneys 2UE......'Dail a Hit'

roycv · « **Reply #29 on:** April 03, 2021, 06:43:22 am »

Hi, I loved the Goon Show, back in the late 60's I used to live opposite the BBC Producer John Browel, nice chap wicked sense of humour although he also did Sing something Simple as well on Sundays.

I frequent Woy Woy in Oz and lately joned the library there. They have a room dedicated to Spike Milligan, who was a resident there. You can sit and watch many of his videos, one is a tour of 'unspoilt' Woy Woy and then it continues to show you 'spoilt' Woy Woy!

He used to live on Orchard Drive, now a very expensive address! He refers to Woy Woy as 'Australia's above ground cemetry'.

In my teens my mum and I used to get tickets to watch radio shows being recorded I particularly remember The Navy Lark, and once on passing John Pertwee in the corridor I had not realised how tall he was. Ronnie Barker was in that as well. My mom and I shared the same sense of humour, I am afraid this was somewhat lost on my dad.
regards
Roy

Baldrick · « **Reply #30 on:** April 03, 2021, 07:32:08 am »

Does anyone else remember Dick Barton -Special Agent ? Best thing on radio that far back.. Always used to wait for it and fire up the cats whisker.

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reg · « **Reply #31 on:** April 03, 2021, 08:41:57 am »

Dick Barton, Saturday morning sitting on the side board with my ear pressed up against the radio listing to the
omnibus edition

SteamboatPhil · « **Reply #32 on:** April 03, 2021, 09:13:30 am »

What about "Much Binding in the Marsh". also Kenneth Horne I believe..

BrianB6 · « **Reply #33 on:** April 03, 2021, 09:55:41 am »

Quote from: SteamboatPhil on April 03, 2021, 09:13:30 am

What about "Much Binding in the Marsh". also Kenneth Horne I believe..

the program was "Round the Horne" if I remember right.

radiojoe · « **Reply #34 on:** April 03, 2021, 10:11:46 am »

Yes it was a song but also a radio programe wthh Kennieth Horne and Richard Murdock about a fictional RAF station in Norfolk

Joe

roycv · « **Reply #35 on:** April 03, 2021, 12:02:44 pm »

I remember Much Binding very well they always had a topically worded song at the end. They were both ex RAF, a service of extremes, near death one day and drunk as a skunk afterwards. There was a fine line to be drawn between doing your bit and avoiding an early appointment upstairs.
But after Dick Barton, on radio, it was followed by a circus thing called The Daring Dexters. After that The Archers, I gave up on that after they killed off Grace Fairbrother in a fire trying to save the horses!
Roy

Colin Bishop · « **Reply #36 on:** April 03, 2021, 12:05:59 pm »

Mrs Dale's Diary - my Mum always listened to it.

roycv · « **Reply #37 on:** April 03, 2021, 12:14:34 pm »

For some reason another programme I used to liked popped into my head it was "Monday Night at Eight". I used to creep out of bed and sit on the stairs while my parents listened to it. At the end they had a detective serial Dr. Morelle.

There was also a comedy sketch called The Dooms. I have never forgotten the catch phrase at the end where Drusilla is pouring tea and says in a very deep voice and very slowly, "Tea Edmund.......Milluck"?

Anyone remember that?
Roy

radiojoe · « **Reply #38 on:** April 03, 2021, 12:22:58 pm »

Nah a bit before my time Roy

Joe

Colin Bishop · « **Reply #39 on:** April 03, 2021, 12:23:18 pm »

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I remember Much Binding very well

Always thought it was about constipation. I must have misheard. Much binding in the ....

roycv · « **Reply #40 on:** April 03, 2021, 12:49:46 pm »

Binding was the popular term for skiving.

Roy

Baldrick · « **Reply #41 on:** April 03, 2021, 01:10:37 pm »

From this thread it is apparent that although you do not have to be an octogenarian to take up boat modelling you will probably end up as one.

terry horton · « **Reply #42 on:** April 03, 2021, 01:31:12 pm »

"Have a Go Joe" with Wilfred Pickles and Mabel at the table.... "Give 'em the money Mabel !!" Pickles would say after the contestants had been lucky enough to win the princely sum of 10 bob or a couple of Quid

roycv · « **Reply #43 on:** April 03, 2021, 02:31:42 pm »

Mabel was Mrs. Pickles.
Roy

mrlownotes · « **Reply #44 on:** April 03, 2021, 03:05:30 pm »

Listen with Mother - "Are you sitting comfortably ?". I remember being sat in front of the 'Radiogram' back in the 1960s.

radiojoe · « **Reply #45 on:** April 03, 2021, 03:26:28 pm »

Desert Island Discs now there's a program that's stood the test of time it actually beats Coronation Street by some 19 years.

Joe

terry horton · « **Reply #46 on:** April 03, 2021, 03:38:05 pm »

Quote from: mrlownotes on April 03, 2021, 03:05:30 pm

Listen with Mother - "Are you sitting comfortably ?". I remember being sat in front of the 'Radiogram' back in the 1960s.

While I listened to this quietly on the sofa my Mum would always have forty winks before preparing an evening meal ready for the rest of the family coming home

SailorGreg · « **Reply #47 on:** April 03, 2021, 05:48:56 pm »

Well, as I have been cited by Joe as the reason for this thread starting, I'd better chime in with some of my earliest radio memories -

Eating Sunday roast around the kitchen table with Two (or sometimes Three) Way Family Favourites playing in the background

Round the Horne and Beyond Our Ken

The Navy Lark - "left hand down a bit!"

Mum listening to Mrs Dale's Diary (thanks for the reminder Colin)

And a little later - I'm Sorry I'll read That Again. Priceless.

And a lot more that others here have jogged my memory about. Ahh, radio!

Greg

terry horton · « **Reply #48 on:** April 03, 2021, 06:49:41 pm »

Swimbo tells me that many are repeated on BBC Four Extra

RST · « **Reply #49 on:** April 03, 2021, 07:07:34 pm »

Certainly are as I alluded to before, and there's 2h of Bill Oddie talking about I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again just starting on 4 extra right now.

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