Tag: BBC iPlayer

  • The Last Pirates

    The Last Pirates

    Just like the pirate stations, I don’t know how long this video will stay up, but this is a great documentary on London pirate stations of the 1980’s and 90’s. Kiss, Kool, Passion, Fire, used to listen to a lot of those (and remember the anger over Jazz FM). Not exactly the last pirates, there…

  • Bang On A Drum

    Bang On A Drum

    I mentioned this on one of the many repeats of Story Of Pop, but now it’s on YouTube – Coldcut going through all the samples they used in their classic and influential remix of Eric B & Rakim’s Paid in Full…and it includes a really obscure break from a BBC Playschool record, ‘Bang On A…

  • Viv Stanshall’s Radio Flashes

    Viv Stanshall’s Radio Flashes

    Ooh look what just popped up on my computer (thank you Get iPlayer and PVR, yes Stanshall and Radiophonic search terms are always on scan), the BBC are replaying 3 episodes of what I presume the only high-quality versions they have of Viv Stanshall’s Radio Flashes, which was when he stood in for John Peel…

  • Vivian Stanshall – English as Tuppence

    Vivian Stanshall – English as Tuppence

    We Are Normal And We Love Burt Weedon! Why Does He Have A Rabbit Head On? What Do You Think About Shirts? Craig Torso Is Wonderful! A 3 hour documentary about Vivian Stanshall of the Bonzo Dog Band on the BBC iPlayer, presented by Neil Innes and with Adrian Edmondson. Been listening to this and…

  • What the Future Sounds Like

    What the Future Sounds Like

    Love this documentary about British electronic music, specifically Tristram Cary, Peter Zinovieff, David Cockerell as the inventors of the EMS synth. Love that pipe – not enough electronic music is composed whilst in a turtleneck and a pipe nowadays! (via Eric Kleptone). Also if you’ve not listened to the BBC Selected Radiophonic Works from Radio…

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