This is part one of a 2 hour ‘desert island discs’ type programme that Davie Bowie recorded and was broadcast on 20th May 1979. There is no interviewer. Just a slightly self conscious and sometimes awkward Bowie who plays the music that he liked and influenced him up to that period in time.
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There’s been a kind of Chinese whispers around the UK’s DAB radio service that even reached the BBC yesterday.Prompted by the announcement by media company Gcap that they will pull 2 stations from the DAB network. The Jazz and Planet Rock will, unless a buyout occurs, cease transmission by the end of March and will [...]
Recent Woman’s Hour recruit Jane Garvey, wife of down to earth presenter Adrian Chiles bemoans the culture of Radio 4 which she describes as having “a massively middle class bent”.
It’s interesting to read some of the comments to this story in the Media Guardian:
‘what’s wrong in being middle class?.’
(er… )
‘It’s not just middle-class, it’s depressingly [...]
A brief glimpse into who was gigging around London in March 1981.
Alternative bandwidth-friendly *AAC+ encoded version (673KB): London Gig Guide 1981
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I’m listening to the radio and countless callers moaning about the current UK wide postal strike and am slightly amazed at how many businesses still rely on both payment by cheque and the sending of paper invoices the same way. I am surprised that so many companies do not bank and invoice electronically. Me, I’d [...]
