‘The Fabulous Radio Show’ of 1950s Pop, on Forest FM 92·3, does Wednesdays from 22h00 to midnight, and Sundays from 02h00 to 03h00, with Radio-Essex DJ Paul Peters, and record-expert Geoff Kemp. (Nick Churchill reported in Daily Echo.) KFMJ Ketchikan-Alaska is one the USA stations that take the show. Once upon a time, nasty old gangsters enclosed the ‘New Forest’ and commoners could starve. See link on sidebar: forestfm.co.uk
10h22-BST Monday 21 April 2008-CE
‘The Fabulous Radio Show’ on Forest FM can be checked out on forestfm.co.uk but it was also covered in a piece by Nick Churchill called ‘Retro Radio’ in the Saturday Magazine supplement to the Daily Echo (12-18 April edition). See Daily Echo link in my sidebar.
The presenters of this 1950s music show are onetime offshore radio DJ Paul Peters of Radio Essex in the 1960s (nice to hear a mention of one of the small stations) and his business-partner Geoff Kemp who is the record expert. The 1950s were my teenage years but I hated British cover artists. I would not wish to hear Tommy Steele, for example, especially not his ‘Rock With The Caveman’.
However, via the internet, Forest FM has been heard by veteran DJ Bob Kearn of KFMJ in Ketchikan, Alaska who readily got the OK to use it. ‘The Fabulous Radio Show’ now goes out on [an un-named] station in Arizona also. Right here in Dorset, we can hearken to the show via 92·3 on Wednesday from 22h00 to midnight, and Sunday from 02h00 to 03h00.
You can Google “new forest” to delight your heart, and, in a couple of minutes, know far more than I do about the place. It was enclosed by the chief gangster for his exclusive use hunting deer with his gangster mates quite a few centuries ago. Now, it is a bit old really.
Long before that, this land had slowly become an island which gradually became forested the most recent time the ice was defeated and retreated. It became thinly populated at the same time. As population grew, forest was reduced. The Romans presided over a land fully-husbanded. During Saxon times, Common Land existed where Tom, Dick and Harry could set their animals to graze.
But after the Scandies took over, the gangsters grabbed the land in various stages until the folk whom they enslaved were dispossessed. Finally, in 1945, we became truly free economically. In 1964, Alan Crawford and then Ronan O’Rahilly worked to bring us offshore free radio; and in 1971, we got land-based Independent Broadcasting Authority radio, not as good but better than the meagre portion of Pop doled out by the BBC Light Programme.
FIN 11h20
