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Magic Moments

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A five-part series.
2:First Time Callers In 1968, the new BBC Radio Nottingham broadcast a programme called What Are They up to Now? It was Britain's first radio phone-in, to be followed by agony-aunt advice shows, swap-lines, news debates, sexy chat-lines, and shock-jocks.
Nigel Fountain asks whether the phone-in is just a cheap style of programming allowing self-publicists to commandeer airwaves. Producer Wendy Pilmer

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Wendy Pilmer
Source: Radio Times

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