Re: [UK-Radio-Listeners] Fw: [peel] Maida Vale radio documentary

[Colin Howard]

Greetings,

I had noted this in my listing of programs from R4 and have decided to take
it live next Saturday.

Thanks for the additional info.

Colin Howard, living in Southern England.
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This coming Saturday on Radio 4


https://www.bbc.co.uk/ programmes/m002tbd6


The Ghosts of Maida Vale
Archive on 4


In 1934, the BBC bought a roller-skating rink in west London and turned it
into a home for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Walk around Maida Vale studios
today and it still feels like a makeshift conversion - no architect in their
right mind would design a building in which the main access route is a 120
metre corridor down which two people can barely pass. And yet, for 92 years,
the world’s greatest musicians have been coming here to perform and record
for the BBC.


From now on, they will do so for new owners.


In The Ghosts of Maida Vale, we hear rock and pop musicians and
presenters, past and present, including Jarvis Cocker, Annie Nightingale,
Squeeze, Beyoncé, John Peel, Adam Ant and The Beatles.


Writer and presenter Matthew Sweet, alongside like-minded artists,
conjures the spirits and echoes of Maida Vale studios with reminiscences
from the worlds of classical music, radio drama, wartime propaganda and the
electronic music pioneers of the world famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop.


Many of the recordings made here since the 1930s have been preserved on
disc. In the 1960s the Beatles recorded 52 editions of their show Pop Goes
The Beatles!, many from Maida Vale. These programmes capture the evolution
of their style. In 1977 Bing Crosby made his last ever recording in Studio
3. Between 1967 and 2004, John Peel’s sessions laid down an immensity of
work by artists including Led Zeppelin, The Slits, Fairport Convention and
Nirvana.


The story of the BBC at Maida Vale has been told many times – this
programme brings that story to a close.


A Debbie production for BBC Radio 4