from Pebble Mill

from the Top Shop window in the High Street

with Peter Mayne

from the Roadshow studio in The Bull Ring Market

out and about in the radio car starting off at the Stock Exchange, Birmingham

from the Top Shop window in the High Street including at 5.30 Newsbeat with Peter Mayne

Part 20: 1974
(In association with Billboard Magazine)

makes his usual weekly visit to a college or university. This week:
Birmingham Polytechnic with special live band Selecter
Producer TONY HALE BBC Manchester

John says: ' Certain citizens may argue that British reggae is only a faint echo of the Jamaican original; that British-based reggae musicians, distanced from the social and spiritual conditions which give the music its peculiar intensity, are doomed to second division status for all time. A pretty argument perhaps, but one rooted in cultural snobbery and one emphatically disproved by Misty. Their current album, called Misty in Roots, which was recorded in Belgium, and their Radio 1 session in the show tonight, both convey the deep pessimism felt by black and white youth alike in contemporary Britain. It's a pessimism thrown into sharp relief by the hope the members of the band place in their Rastafarian faith.'