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The Old Grey Whistle Test Story

Duration: 40 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Jo Brand narrates a profile which celebrates the life and times of the BBC's first flagship live music programme, The Old Grey Whistle Test, which ran from 1971 to 1987. It looks at the music, the presenters, the TV rivals, the sparse studio and the legacy, finds out why Bob Harris whispered, what Sid Vicious tried to do to him and what Camel did with a woodwind quartet and why. All these questions are answered and many more, followed by loving compilations of those early 70s years, the era that time forgot. Show less

Contributors

Narrator:
Jo Brand
Producer:
Dione Newton
Director:
Dione Newton
Participant:
Bob Harris
Participant:
Annie Nightingale
Participant:
Jools Holland
Participant:
Mark Radcliffe
Participant:
Jarvis Cocker
Participant:
Paul Morley

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