UK Place Names
Tuesday 5 February 2013, 16:00 to 18:00 on Tone Radio.
The theme on this week’s Fred Hart Show was UK Place Names. All the music played between 16:35 and 17:40 featured the name of a place in the UK in either theΒ title or the lyrics.
This afternoon on my Tone show I was practicing backtiming, after seeing how Mark Cummings manages to hit the news every hour on his BBC Radio Gloucestershire Breakfast Show on Friday.
It sort of worked – I was only 30 seconds out getting to the news at 17:00, which was good. I’m going to try and get it down to 25 next week. My challenge is to get it down to 0 seconds over by the time Tone closes down for the Summer at the end of the semester.
My theme on the show this week was UK Place Names, and I had lots of fun choosing the music which was played between 4:30 and 5:30 (and naturally, whilst I got to the news on time, my themed hour started 5 minutes late and finished 10 minutes late – I’ll get that sorted soon too)!
I’m going to head home now and watch the next episode of the new Yes, Prime Minister series, before eating some food for dinner: not sure what, yet, I haven’t been to the shop yet.
Guest lecture from John Rockley tomorrow, as part of the Radio Magazine module, which I’m looking forward too. He used to present mid-mornings on BBC Glos, then went to BBC Lincs and is now running his own business. He’s quite a character – so should be a very interesting session tomorrow!
I note that Vernon Harwood is in there at the moment, giving his guest lecture to the Tuesday afternoon group. Vernon was involved with some of the early Corinium Radio broadcasts (leading some of the training sessions). Small world!
Music Played
- The Overtones – Love Song
- Toploader – Dancing In the Moonlight
- Deacon Blue – That’s What We Can Do
- Mike Oldfield – Moonlight Shadow
- Emilia Mitiku – So Wonderful
- Kerfuffle – Two Sisters
- Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
- Coldplay – Clocks
- The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset
- Benjamin Leftwich – Manchester Snow
- Maddy Prior – Came Ye from Newcastle
- Vera Lynn – The White Cliffs of Dover
- Captain Phoenix – Blackheath
- Joan Baez – Birmingham Sunday
- Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street
- Paul McCartney – Mull of Kintyre
- Fred Wedlock – Bristol Busses
- Mike Oldfield – Portsmouth
- Suzanne Vega – In Liverpool
- Simon & Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair
- Gerry and the Pacemakers – Ferry Across the Mersey
- Rod Stewart – Skye Boat Song
- Fiddler’s Dram – Day Trip to Bangor
- Justin Rutledge – Greenwich Time
- The Beatles – Penny Lane
- The Justice Collective – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother
- Jamie Smith’s MABON – The Gordano Ranter
- Ethemia – Do You Still Blame Me
- Laura Marling – New Romantic
- The Divine Comedy – Come Home Billy Bird