(From Radio Today)

BBC Radio 2 have revealed details of their special programmes which will be 
created to celebrate 40 years on-air. Smashie And Nicey will record a 
special Pick of the Pops and the network will air an edition of the Kenny 
Everett Radio Show from the archives. Paul Hollingdale, Ed Stewart and 
Michael Aspel will also make appearances.

As part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, BBC Radio 2 is inviting its 
listeners to vote for their Ultimate Icon - an enduring personality that 
they believe best represents popular culture over the past four decades.

Nominations for the voting have opened and the winner will be announced on 
Radio 2 on Sunday 30 September 2007 during a special day of programming to 
mark the network's 40th birthday.

Lesley Douglas, Controller, Radio 2, says: "This special day will give 
listeners old and new a chance to sample some of the gems of the past 40 
years. To welcome back some of the stars from the original line-up, to 
re-live some of the musical and comic gems is really exciting.

"And, of course, I am thrilled that Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse have 
agreed to bring back Smashie and Nicey for a one off Pick Of The Pops 
special."

Programme schedule for Sunday 30 September

Breakfast Special With Paul Hollingdale, 9.00-9.55am
Paul Hollingdale - the first voice heard on Radio 2 - returns to present a 
special edition of Breakfast Special, featuring music played on that first 
programme 40 years ago, and sharing memories of life in the studio.

Five To Ten, 9.55-10.00am
A recording of Paul Simon performing a live version of I Am A Rock from 1965 
features in this new edition of Five To Ten - a predecessor to the current 
Pause For Thought - presented by Colin Semper. The former BBC Head of 
Religious Broadcasting presented Five To Ten on Radio 2's first day.

Junior Choice With Ed Stewart, 10.00-11.00am
Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart returns with a special edition of the hugely popular 
listener request show, Junior Choice.

The Kenny Everett Radio Show, 11.00am-1.00pm
Kenny Everett, one of the iconic figures of British radio, returned to the 
BBC in October 1981 after a spell in commercial radio. This programme is the 
first show he presented on Radio 2, broadcast on 3 October 1981, and 
contains Everett's unique mix of madcap humour and music.

Family Favourites With Michael Aspel, 1.00-2.30pm
Michael Aspel presents an edition of the weekly record request show that 
started life on the Light Programme in 1945 linking London with the British 
Forces Network in Germany.

Pick Of The Pops With Smashie And Nicey, 2.30-4.30pmHarry Enfield and Paul 
Whitehouse resurrect their spoof DJs Smashie and Nicey for a one-off 
two-hour Pick Of The Pops special, running down the chart from the last week 
of September 1967.

The Top 10 features records by Cliff Richard, Tom Jones, Traffic, The 
Flowerpot Men, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Small Faces and The Move, 
climaxing in the number one record - The Last Waltz by Engelbert 
Humperdinck.

Brian Matthew, 4.30-6.30pm
Brian Matthew presents a Birthday Special, guiding listeners through the 
Sixties with favourite music tracks and revealing interviews and anecdotes 
about the stars of the period, who were often personal friends.

As well as landmark music releases from the decade, Brian will play archive 
interviews with the individual Beatles, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, 
Marianne Faithfull, Pete Townshend (talking of his ambitions to one day 
write a rock opera), Graham Nash, Chris Curtis, Matt Monro, Colin Blunstone 
and Petula Clark.

The interviews were often recorded very early in the star's careers. Many of 
the star interviews have not been heard before in the UK.

Semprini Serenade, 6.30-7.30pm
"Old Ones, New Ones, Loved Ones, Neglected Ones..." So began a programme 
that was part of the BBC Light Programme and later Radio 2 for more than 25 
years and 700 programmes.

Pianist Alberto Semprini was born in Bath, but was of Italian extraction, 
and entertained a large and loyal audience with his brand of light classical 
music. This edition of Semprini Serenade featuring Semprini and the Serenade 
Orchestra, conducted by Vilem Tausky, was broadcast on 24 January 1971.

Sing Something Simple, 7.30-8.00pm
Sing Something Simple - "songs simply sung for song-lovers" - was a radio 
institution for over 40 years, first on the Light Programme, and then on 
Radio 2.

It featured half an hour of easy listening arrangements of popular songs 
performed by the Cliff Adams Singers. The programme came to an end with the 
death of Cliff Adams in October 2001.

This edition featured in Radio 2's 40th birthday celebrations and was 
originally broadcast on 16 March 2000.

Round The Horne, 8.00-8.30pm
Round The Horne is one of the classic BBC radio comedies. Radio 2 was only a 
few months old when it broadcast series four. This edition, Frankenstein's 
Monster, was first broadcast on 10 March 1968.

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Thus spake Mike Terry (miketerry73@btinternet.com) unto the assembled multitudes:
> (From Radio Today)
> ... 102 lines snipped, which can be seen at...
> http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2437 

*sigh* good grief.

Mike,

This is the way to do it:

Radio Today has some very interesting news about how Radio 2 will celebrate
its 40th year.  See:
http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2437

Is it really that difficult for you?


-- 
                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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"And, of course, I am thrilled that Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse have
agreed to bring back Smashie and Nicey for a one off Pick Of The Pops
special."


Much as I liked the sketches featuring Smashie and Nicey, I have no idea 
what they have to do with "Celebrating 40 years of R2"?

Surely these two characters were based on R1 DJs of the day?

Thus spake Terry (Terry@home.com) unto the assembled multitudes:
> Much as I liked the sketches featuring Smashie and Nicey, I have no idea 
> what they have to do with "Celebrating 40 years of R2"?

> Surely these two characters were based on R1 DJs of the day?

Ah, but *what* day?   If it's celebrating 40 years of R2 it's not
celebrating what it was 40 years ago but what it has done over the last 40
years.  Celebrating Radio 2 as it was 40 years ago would be pretty dire. it
would be full of Sing Something Simple, Housewives's Choice and suchlike;
hardly something to attract a present day audience except for those well
into the late autumn of their years.  I'm sure there will be some of the
early stuff, but there's lots of other material from the last 40 years to
get all misty-eyed about.

I think Smashy and Nicey were based on Mike Read (sp?) and the late and
much missed Alan Freeman.  Although Fluff eventually became an R2 regular,
I'm not sure that Mike Read was ever on R2.  I think he got the heave-ho
from R1 at about the same time as Dave Lee Travis, as a result of Matthew
Bannister's pogrom.




-- 
                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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"Terry"  wrote in message
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> "And, of course, I am thrilled that Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse have
> agreed to bring back Smashie and Nicey for a one off Pick Of The Pops
> special."
>
>
> Much as I liked the sketches featuring Smashie and Nicey, I have no idea
> what they have to do with "Celebrating 40 years of R2"?
>
> Surely these two characters were based on R1 DJs of the day?
>

Poptastic!

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:40:36 +0000 (UTC), A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk
 wrote:

> I think Smashy and Nicey were based on Mike Read (sp?) and the late and
> much missed Alan Freeman.

I thought it was Blackburn and Freeman...

Thus spake Paul Ratcliffe (abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78) unto the assembled multitudes:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:40:36 +0000 (UTC), A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk
>  wrote:

>> I think Smashy and Nicey were based on Mike Read (sp?) and the late and
>> much missed Alan Freeman.

> I thought it was Blackburn and Freeman...

Ah!  Yes, could be.

-- 
                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk wrote:
> Thus spake Paul Ratcliffe (abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78) unto the assembled multitudes:
>> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:40:36 +0000 (UTC), A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk
>>  wrote:
> 
>>> I think Smashy and Nicey were based on Mike Read (sp?) and the late and
>>> much missed Alan Freeman.
> 
>> I thought it was Blackburn and Freeman...
> 
> Ah!  Yes, could be.

Although I'm sure I once heard Harry Enfield say he'd sprinkled a bit of DLT's 
personality into Nicey's character too ?


-- 
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

Thus spake Mark Carver (mark.carver@invalid.invalid) unto the assembled multitudes:

>>>> I think Smashy and Nicey were based on Mike Read (sp?) and the late and
>>>> much missed Alan Freeman.
>> 
>>> I thought it was Blackburn and Freeman...

> Although I'm sure I once heard Harry Enfield say he'd sprinkled a bit of DLT's 
> personality into Nicey's character too ?

I'm sure the two portray bits of most of the R1 jocks of the time.

I did once hear - after Smashy and Nicey had been around - Alan Freeman
play Bachman Turner Overdrive on PoTP and I'm sure he hammed up a bit of
'Nicey'.

I do hope there are - or will be - archives available of Fluff's PoTP
shows.   I'd love to have a boxed set.  Fluff was the best, and poor old
Dale Winton just doesn't cut the mustard.  Why can't the BBC publish this
stuff?  I'm sure it would be a nice little earner.

-- 
                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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> I did once hear - after Smashy and Nicey had been around - Alan Freeman
> play Bachman Turner Overdrive on PoTP and I'm sure he hammed up a bit of
> 'Nicey'.

You're not wrong there mate,not 'arf!

> I do hope there are - or will be - archives available of Fluff's PoTP
> shows.   I'd love to have a boxed set.  Fluff was the best, and poor old
> Dale Winton just doesn't cut the mustard.  Why can't the BBC publish this
> stuff?  I'm sure it would be a nice little earner.
>
> -- 
>                                 Andy Clews
>                            University of Sussex
>                 *** Remove DENTURES if replying by email ***

Dale Winton was a regular presenter on Radio Trent (Nottingham) in the 70's 
long before he had been seen on TV. He did a very good soul and disco show 
once a week too, so it's not as if POTP is his radio debut.

However, I can't understand why they don't just repeat the archive shows of 
Fluff on POTP - after all - the music played from teh charts of the day 
would not be any different. And no-one has ever been able to read out a Top 
20 countdown as well as Fluff - even to this day!!

Peter

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:27:56 +0000 (UTC), A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk
wrote:

>Thus spake Paul Ratcliffe (abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78) unto the assembled multitudes:
>> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:40:36 +0000 (UTC), A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk
>>  wrote:
>
>>> I think Smashy and Nicey were based on Mike Read (sp?) and the late and
>>> much missed Alan Freeman.
>
>> I thought it was Blackburn and Freeman...
>
>Ah!  Yes, could be.

It was more of an amalgam of several DJ's, there was DLT's pipe
smoking and dronng on endlessly about his farm, a touch of Gary Davies
in Nicey, Smashie also had Simon Bates' hair and glasses.
-- 
Mike Plowman
"Hey you, Horror Face. I'm a Printhead"

A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk wrote:

> I do hope there are - or will be - archives available of Fluff's PoTP
> shows.   I'd love to have a boxed set.  Fluff was the best, and poor
> old
> Dale Winton just doesn't cut the mustard.  Why can't the BBC publish
> this
> stuff?  I'm sure it would be a nice little earner.

They may not have archived it.

Thus spake Amethyst Deceiver (spam@lindsayendell.co.uk) unto the assembled multitudes:
> A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk wrote:

>> I do hope there are - or will be - archives available of Fluff's PoTP
>> shows.   

> They may not have archived it. 

They deserve to be strung up and shot at dawn if they didn't.


-- 
                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk wrote:
> Thus spake Mike Terry (miketerry73@btinternet.com) unto the assembled
> multitudes:
>> (From Radio Today)
>> ... 102 lines snipped, which can be seen at...
>> http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2437
>
> *sigh* good grief.
>
> Mike,
>
> This is the way to do it:
>
> Radio Today has some very interesting news about how Radio 2 will
> celebrate
> its 40th year.  See:
> http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2437
>
> Is it really that difficult for you?

Why don't you make a valid comment or keep quiet. I know which one of you is
the most annoying and it is not Mike.

Rickey wrote:
> A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk wrote:
>> Thus spake Mike Terry (miketerry73@btinternet.com) unto the assembled
>> multitudes:
>>> (From Radio Today)
>>> ... 102 lines snipped, which can be seen at...
>>> http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2437
>>
>> *sigh* good grief.
>>
>> Mike,
>>
>> This is the way to do it:
>>
>> Radio Today has some very interesting news about how Radio 2 will
>> celebrate
>> its 40th year.  See:
>> http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2437
>>
>> Is it really that difficult for you?
>
> Why don't you make a valid comment or keep quiet. I know which one of
> you is the most annoying and it is not Mike.

Well you're in the minority, then. You should either use Usenet 
intelligently or don't use it at all.

"Jack Taylor"  wrote in message 
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> Rickey wrote:
>> A.Clews@DENTURESsussex.ac.uk wrote:
>>> Thus spake Mike Terry (miketerry73@btinternet.com) unto the assembled
>>> multitudes:

>>>
>>> Is it really that difficult for you?
>>
>> Why don't you make a valid comment or keep quiet. I know which one of
>> you is the most annoying and it is not Mike.
>
> Well you're in the minority, then. You should either use Usenet 
> intelligently or don't use it at all.

...And people wonder why hardly anyone ever posts here!

    Chris

Chris Brown wrote:
>
> ...And people wonder why hardly anyone ever posts here!

It's because there are very few intelligent people to have a serious 
discussion with on this group. Other groups that I post to average as many 
as 200-300 contributions per day and active, sensible, reasoned, generally 
polite discussions take place, even when opinions are violently opposed. 
This is typical of most media forums, populated by pondlife with little of 
any value to say.

Thus spake Rickey (rickey@spam.co.uk) unto the assembled multitudes:

> Why don't you make a valid comment or keep quiet. I know which one of you is
> the most annoying and it is not Mike.

So Mike Terry's posting - that to which I responded - was a "valid comment"
then?   Please tell me which part of his posting - like so many of his
others - was his own original material and a "valid comment".  Then tell me
why *my* posting was *not* a "valid comment".


-- 
                                 Andy Clews
                            University of Sussex
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"Rickey"  wrote in message 
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>
> Why don't you make a valid comment or keep quiet. I know which one of you 
> is
> the most annoying and it is not Mike.
>
Should be "MORE annoying".
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Hungerdunger
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