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GLR: Was it any good?

23rd October 08

BBC Training & Development, 35 Marylebone High Street, London W1U 4AA

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It opened 20 years ago, on October 25th 1988. It was radical, innovative, clever, challenging, funny, and inspiring. It was childish, shambolic, self-indulgent, patronising and silly. It was ‘radio for grown-ups’. It promised ‘rock ‘n’ rolling news’. It halved the BBC’s London audience. But it’s heritage lives on, not just in the formats of BBC 5Live and BBC 6Music, but through the talent it nurtured – Chris Evans, Chris Morris, Danny Baker, Emma Freud, Vanessa Feltz, Nick Abbot…. and many more.

Production staff from its early years have gone on to run BBC Radio, BBC Music Entertainment, ITV Entertainment, BBC Wales, The Radio Academy and Aston Villa. They’ve produced ITN’s News at Ten, Home Truths, Woman’s Hour, Just a Minute and Panorama.

But Greater London Radio (GLR), was it any good? Nick Higham talks to some veterans including Chris Evans, Danny Baker, Fi Glover,Johnnie Walker, Emma Freud, Matthew Bannister and Trevor Dann.

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