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When Big Joan Sets Up 3/3/11 – Stay Alive in ’75

I'd wear itA change to some listings this week, as the dreaded manflu (defintion – like women’s flu but MUCH WORSE!) has sundered my previously mellifluous tones and replaced them with something that sounds like someone sandpapering a door frame.

So – back, back, back, we go to a conversation that I had with Albert about a year ago, when we speculated as to what our prgrammes would have sounded like had BCB existed back in the day.

Galvanised into action by this conversation I asked Albert to name a random year for me to build a programme around. Having already dealt with 1987 previously, his second suggestion was 1975.

So this week’s programme was a tribute to the days when, if you were very good and ate all your Vesta curry and Angel Delight , your mam would let you stop up and watch “Fawlty Towers” and if you were bad she’d make you listen to the Radio 1 breakfast show with Noel Edmonds.

Starting with the obvious but enduringly wonderful….

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