BBC Radio Wiltshire will be remembering 50th anniversary

BBC Radio Wiltshire will be remembering 50th anniversary of The Beatles last live concert on the Rooftop of Apple on  Wednesday January 30th on the Mid-morning show.

Why not tune in to celebrate with them?
The show will be on sometime between 10:30 AM- 11:00 AM

104.3 & 103.5 FM  DAB  bbc.co.uk/wiltshire

@bbcwiltshire  facebook.com/bbcwiltshire

BBFC Radio Special - Yellow Submarine Saturday January 12

There is a special on the album Yellow Submarine this Saturday on Radio Wandsworth. 

 

The BBFC's Ernie Sutton will be guesting with Dave Etheridge from the Progfathers on Steve Lawlor's Retro Chart Show show between 8 and 9 pm.   

We hope you can tune in!

Dung Beatles celebrate Sgt Pepper's 50th on the BBC - Listen Saturday

Turn in to BBC radio Saturday June 3 to listen to the Dung Beatles.

This week they recorded 7 songs from Sgt Pepper in a session at the BBC.  This band is local from Buckinghamshire and a personal favorite of our committee.  

The broadcast is this Saturday between 12 and 1 celebrating the 50^th anniversary of the album’s release. The band worked really hard and it was quite a tricky set up for the sound engineer but it worked . Tune in listen for yourself at www.bbc.co.uk/threecountiesradio 

DEATH AND THE BEATLES FAN to air on RTE Radio 1 Aug 21

Stephen Kennedy with Lennon Statue in Liverpool

Stephen Kennedy, an Irish playwright who also organizes the annual Dublin Beatles Day has shared some exciting news.   The national broadcaster in Ireland, RTE RADIO ONE, will broadcast his play DEATH AND THE BEATLES FAN at 8pm on Sunday, August 21st.  The play is a black comedy about what happens when Death attempts to kill a Beatles’ fan who really has no interest in dying.  It’s basically a Beatles-filled spoof of The Seventh Seal.  The play will be directed by Gorretti Slavin – and she has chosen three great actors for the piece – Jonathan Ryan, Joe Taylor and Joe Hanley.  Beatle fans all over the world will be able to listen to the play at www.rte.ie/radio1.

Listen and enjoy as I am sure the play will be fab. Last October BBC RADIO 2 broadcast his play JOHN LENNON’S LAST DAY to mark what would have been John Lennon’s 75th birthday.  It was performed by Ian Hart.  The BBC have recently entered that play for an IMISON AWARD which is  an award in the UK which is presented annually to the best audio drama script by a new writer.  The winner will be announced in early January 2017. Good luck to Stephen.

Padraic McGinley as Pete Best

 Stephen also has a stage play that will return to the stage in the Autumn for those who missed it last February.  PETE BEST OF THE BEATLES had its debut run at the New Theatre in Dublin in February – and the play had full houses and standing ovations.  Padraic McGinley played the part of Pete Best – and he was incredible.