BBC THAMES VALLEY FM
Phone: 0645 311111
Fax: 0645 311555
Post: PO Box 952, Oxford.
THE BOB HARRIS SHOW Sunday 2pm to 5pm.
Oxfordshire: 95.2FM Berkshire: 104.1FM Reading: 104.4FM
I live in Oxfordshire and it was a really nice feeling doing programmes for my local station. I first broadcast on Radio Oxford in the early eighties. I did the Mon-Fri afternoon show from the spring of 1981 (I took over from Timmy Mallet) to the end of 1984. I used to do a lot of interviews, one or two sessions, I played loads of new music and did a monthly 'Singles Cavalcade', taking the whole week to play through every record that topped the British and American charts from 1955 to then (occasionally re-writing history by not playing an absolute duffer).
So, thirteen years on and I was back in the studio just across the Banbury Road, and broadcasting live every Sunday afternoon from 2 til 5. The mix was the usual 1997 Bob Harris cocktail: Roots, Blues, R&B, Modern Rock, World Music, Country, anniversary tracks from the 'Rockdate' Diary. You could listen to the programmes on one or other of the frequencies listed above across a huge part of Southern England, east to west from Outer London to the Cotswolds, north to south from the Midlands to I.O.W and Southampton.
