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Lady Penelope
master brummie
Probably been mentioned before but Archie Andrews and Much Binding in the Marsh have been on Radio 4X this week. Just finished listening to Paul Temple - love the intro music ''Coronation Scot' - dunnarf take me back!
I may have said this before but this link should find you a lot of old radio shows. https://www.radioechoes.com/?page=series_all
It's not perfect. Part of the problem is that they like the original title of the show rather than what you remember it as. For examp;le, this is in the T's on the list https://www.radioechoes.com/?page=series&genre=OTR-Detective&series=The Adventures Of Paul Temple
If you know how to search a page (Ctrl-F and put something in the box) you might do a lot better.
It's not perfect. Part of the problem is that they like the original title of the show rather than what you remember it as. For examp;le, this is in the T's on the list https://www.radioechoes.com/?page=series&genre=OTR-Detective&series=The Adventures Of Paul Temple
If you know how to search a page (Ctrl-F and put something in the box) you might do a lot better.
devonjim
master brummie
Just noticed that the actor Ysanne Churchman, who played Grace Archer has just died aged 99
devonjim
master brummie
Just noticed that the actor Ysanne Churchman, who played Grace Archer has just died aged 99
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
i listen to BRMB but it is not as good as the 70
As near as I get to BRMB these days is Les Ross on Boom at 10am on a Sunday.i listen to BRMB but it is not as good as the 70
Talking of DJs, sadly today will be Johnnie Walker's last Sunday "Sounds of the 70s" show on Radio 2, after 58 years on air. Johnnie is unable to continue due to his terminal illness (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis). Sunday afternoons just won't be the same, without him on the radio.
Radiorails
master brummie
I used to listen to the Archers, but it was when Dan and Doris were the family heads.
Richard Dye
master brummie
Just love Charlie Daniel’s! He went too soon!i listen to BRMB but it is not as good as the 70
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
hospital radio was piped and you listening in bed on a pair of headphones
23 Years at City Hospital
After a long and happy period at Edgbaston, in 1988 Warwickshire County Cricket Club decided to authorise redevelopment at the County Ground. So the Network relocated once more in 1989 to studios based at the City Hospital, Dudley Road, with an impressive studio complex which, for the first time, enabled the Network to provide an entertaining and professional 24 hour service to Birmingham’s health community.
23 Years at City Hospital
After a long and happy period at Edgbaston, in 1988 Warwickshire County Cricket Club decided to authorise redevelopment at the County Ground. So the Network relocated once more in 1989 to studios based at the City Hospital, Dudley Road, with an impressive studio complex which, for the first time, enabled the Network to provide an entertaining and professional 24 hour service to Birmingham’s health community.
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
Celebrating 60 years of hospital broadcasting
The Queen is not the only one celebrating six decades this year.
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I can't remember seeing this thread before but now have a good forgettery. I havn't listened to the radio for years but only yesterday ws thinking of a programme I loved when a kid. All I can remember though was someone coming on and saying " Down in the jungle, living in a tent, .............." Anyone any idea who or what the programme was?
Brummie a long time ago
master brummie
It was a Charlie Chester catchphrase. But it also appeared in a song by ‘Wings’, (Paul McCartney).
Andrew.
Andrew.
I Am Nico
master brummie
Is down in the jungle something stirred, different? That has flashed in my mind, dad used to whisper it to me. But he didn't carry it on!
Brummie a long time ago
master brummie
This is the closest I know. Forest not jungle.
Down in the forest something stirred
So faint that I scarcely heard:
But the forest leapt at the sound
Like a good ship homeward bound
Down in the forest something stirred
It was only the note of a bird
(more verses).
Words by Harold Simpson, tune by (Sir ?) Ronald Landon. From a collection of 5 songs called 'Cycle of life'.
There is also a children's rhyme.
Down in the jungle where nobody goes
There's a little baby elephant washing his clothes
etc.
With some variations on the rest of the rhyme.
Andrew.
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I Am Nico
master brummie
Wonderful. I can remember the naughty playground rhyme, going off topic. Walking in the jungle got the belly ache etc. On topic could hospital radio operators plays what they wanted?