On 06/10/2017 01:12, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
If you went ahead and patched your script last week, successive radio.cache refreshes will have got you a total of 56 "Radio 1 Vintage" entries.
53 actually according to the episode guide. Although the episode numbers do indeed go up to 56, for some reason, numbers 1, 2, 3 and 5 are not available and there is an unnumbered joint episode with Nick Grimshaw and Tony Blackburn.
Great listening to these, especially the earlier era for me. As a massive offshore radio fan of the 60s and 70s, Radio 1 never did quite cut it for me and I more or less stopped listening to it altogether in the late 70s/early 80s, with the advent of punk, hence the preferences of the earlier days. For us in Manchester from 1974 we had the vastly superior commercial station Piccadilly Radio, led by Philip Birch who had run previously Radio London - in those days, commercial radio was exciting and vibrant, quite a contrast to the robotic boring entity it has now become, but I digress...
I notice the quip that got Kenny Everett sacked from Radio 1 was included in his episode. It was so obviously tongue in cheek but a reflection of how amazingly "stiff" Auntie was in those days!
PS/OT: Here in Greece, the first day of the week is Sunday, in Greek it's Κυριακή, translated in English as the Day of our Lord (Jesus); Monday is called Δευτέρα, litterally meaning "Second". While dealing with this follow-up, I realised that in the UK Monday is considered the first day of the week; I did find the following small article http://www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/what-day-starts-the-week.html quite interesting as to what is the standard in various other countries :-)
Fascinating link, Vangelis! A --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
