RADIO

[Caran]

what stupid programmes do you rememb er from the radiio. Like tapdancing and ventroliquism on the radio, how could they justify it?

[missprim]

Quite funny when you think about it carandrog. It meant anyone could be either of these and we wouldn't know if they were any good at it :-)

[Caran]

Yes but what about the cheating element. Who can see it on the radio?

[missprim]

That's what I mean carrandog.The ventriloquist didn't even have to have a dummy sitting on his knee he could just be moving his mouth as much as anyone and we wouldn't know.The tap dancers could have taps on their hands as it's probably quicker to do it that way.

[Buenchico]

Peter Brough was probably best on radio as, by all accounts, he was a lousy ventriloquist. However his creation of Archie Andrews amounted to comic genius, so 'Educating Archie' wasn't really out of place on the Light Programme.

I can only remember brief interludes of tap dancing on the radio, embedded into general song-and-dance routines, so they probably weren't too anachronistic.

However Radio 4 has carried several programmes, over the past year or two, dedicated to the works of photographers and artists, whereas BBC4 has featured plenty of programmes about music. There seems to be something the wrong way round there!

[Caran]

I remember Peter Brough we didn't question it at the time. Never thought of fraudulent activity. Just enj9yed it. Tapdancing we accepted for what we got never queried as took as real in tjhe day.what ho

[missprim]

No you're right carandrog we didn't question it at the time as we didn't know any different as most of us didn't have a TV so we just had to use our imagination.

[Caran]

Also Workers playtime was a great user of these artists.

[murraymints]

jimmy clitheroe..whacko...family favourites...are you there Hong Kong ??...listen with mother...jimmy jewel....buster crabbe..you have two hours to save the world..etc etc...ah ...nostalgia..

[boxtops]

Music while you work - 1030am every weekday, remember that?

[bednobs]

people used to go along an watch radio being broadcast didnt they?

[vulcan]

They still do it today, listen to Jeremy vine [in London] helping Terry Walton[in Wales]to pull up leaks. At least the old programmes could be appreciated, the JV/TW exchange is just stupid.