Passing the conversational Dutchie 'pon the left hand side, we fire up the following …
… “speech, not music, brings people together”
… if music gets ever broader, why’s radio getting more niche?
… can YOU guess the NME’s 10 most influential bands in 2002?
… a doomed Dolly Parton kidnap attempt at the Hammersmith Odeon: we were there!
… ‘Voice-tracking’, ‘auditorium testing’ and other network radio secrets
... 61 year-old listener hears the Beatles for the first time and reports back. (Chapeau, Jelltex!)
… short-lived TV spin-offs from Fawlty Towers and Dad’s Army
… Madonna, 50 Cent and Courtney Love wrote children’s books? Anyone read Marcus Mumford’s ‘Barnaby and the Drumming Bear’?
… familiar acts doing unfamiliar songs and well-known tracks by obscure people
… and why Boom Radio is booming.
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