From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #870 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Friday, October 17 2014 Volume 15 : Number 870 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] BBC Genome Project [Chris Turner ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 22:07:23 +0100 From: Chris Turner Subject: [AVALON] BBC Genome Project The BBC's Genome project, an attempt to codify their archives, is starting to bear fruit as all the back editions of the Radio Times have now been added. Here are the references to The Commander in the current version: http://bit.ly/bbc_genome_bryan_ferry I love that BF was on Cilla (or Cilia as Auntie puts it) with the debonair Gerald Harper (who remembers Hadleigh?); one of the few men who could make BF look like Stig of the Dump. The tailoring talk must have gone on into the small hours. There are a few interesting references to past shows it might be nice to hear or see again and I think the Beeb intends that eventually. On a similar subject I bought a box of tapes about a decade ago from a bloke in Limehouse and, added to the stuff I already had knocking around it contains the following: 21/06/74 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 My Top Twelve' 01/10/74 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Paul Gambaccini Interview about Country Life 1974 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Insight' Paul Gambaccini Interview 01/10/75 Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera Radio 1 John Peel Talking about Siren c1975 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Paul Gambaccini Interview c1975 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Interview c1978 Bryan Ferry Story of Pop Interview c1978 Andy Mackay Programme about sax including live performance c1978 Andy Mackay Armchair Thriller 14/04/78 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Newsbeat Interview 21/04/78 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Round Table Kid Jensen Discussion with Carl Perkins and Noel Edmonds 30/07/78 Bryan Ferry Mallory Park Interview 23/09/78 Bryan Ferry Rock On Interview 30/09/78 Andy Mackay Radio 1 Rock On Interview 04/10/78 Andy Mackay Radio 1 Newsbeat Interview 05/03/79 Andy Mackay Radio 1 Interview 01/05/79 Andy Mackay Radio Clyde Interview 20/07/79 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Round Table Kid Jensen Roundtable discussion with Mike Read and Paul Gambaccini 01/07/80 Bryan Ferry Radio Clyde Interview 31/10/80 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Round Table Adrian Love Roundtable discussion with Peter Powell 01/01/81 Bryan Ferry Capital Radio The Music Makers Feature 20/04/81 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Some Favourite Discs' 26/09/81 Andy Mackay Radio 1 Walter's Weekly John Walters Talking about electronic music 01/02/82 Phil Manzanera Radio Clyde Round table discussion with Jim Diamond and Richard Parkes 01/05/82 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Kid Jensen Interview about Avalon 19/05/82 Bryan Ferry Radio Clyde Interview 20/05/82 Bryan Ferry Radio Clyde The Music Week Discussion 29/05/82 Bryan Ferry BRMB Interview about Avalon 16/06/84 The Explorers Radio 1 Richard Skinner 29/06/84 Phil Manzanera Radio 1 Round Table Janice Long Discussion with Pete Wylie and Richard Skinner 12/1984 The Explorers Radio 1 In Concert Session - 6 tracks 05/1985 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Richard Skinner Interview 08/06/85 The Explorers Radio 1 Into The Music Tommy Vance Session - Venus de Milo, You Go Up In Smoke, Prussian Blue and Lorelei 10/1985 Bryan Ferry FM Osaka Sunday Music Interview 22/03/86 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Saturday Live Richard Skinner Interview 29/03/86 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 Simon Bates Interview 19/04/86 Bryan Ferry Radio 1 My Top Ten I'm posting this in the forlorn hope that it might incentivise me to digitise and make them available. Quality is variable and some excerpts are longer than others. Let me know if anything catches the eye/ear particularly. Apologies to Simon G. That Peel interview would have been good for your last record soiree. Totally forgot I had it until today. Chris ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #870 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest