Thameside 25Apr82 1945 Kite, Radio Centraal and Busted
Release Date: 09/20/2020
The Intrepid Birdman 2024
Thameside Radio Revisited
Hooray. The Intrepid Birdman is back. If you are looking for new stuff to listen to then go to () and catch up with what he's doing now. That's now as in 2024! Since you're here I have a few more Thameside recordings which I'm about to upload and also recordings of what the members did after they left Thameside Radio. Quite a few really. Al
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Thameside Radio 2May82 19:20 Late
Thameside Radio Revisited
The show started late - the first we hear from the Paul James show is at 7:20 which is where this recording starts.
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Thameside 25Apr82 1945 Kite, Radio Centraal and Busted
Thameside Radio Revisited
The Intrepid Birdman takes over. Dave plays a demo tape from a band called Kite. Sent in on reel to reel!
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Thameside 25May82 1900 Paul the Pope and a Thameside Radio transmitter change.
Thameside Radio Revisited
We hear from BT's "Pope Line" because the Pope is visiting the UK but he doesn't answer. Fortunately after a second go we finally hear to Pope talking to us.
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Thameside 12Apr82 Bob's quiet patches
Thameside Radio Revisited
The last of 15 hours of Thameside Radio's 1982 Easter Bank Holiday 1982 broadcast. After a mammoth broadcast The Intrepid Birdman hands over Bob Edwards.
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Thameside 12Apr82 21:15 The Intrepid Birdman flies on
Thameside Radio Revisited
Dave Birdman is in a mischevous mood - He is asking listeners for scurrilos rumours about where Bob Edwards is.
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Thameside 12Apr82 20:28 Dave's sketches, Mark, Paul and Ian
Thameside Radio Revisited
In this part of the Easter Monday extended show the Intrepid Birdman asks where Bob Edwards has gone, and with whom?
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Thameside 12Apr82 19:42 Dave is At It
Thameside Radio Revisited
Dave is in the studio in Harrow. He has an "interview with ELO" on a broken phone box (only Dave could do this... ) and then inevitably credits the next track wrongly. You may have to explain to your kids what a "phone box" is, what those beeps mean when calling from one, and what "Button A" and "Button B" are. There's a Duracell Battery advert - involving miners losing power in their lanterns in the poorest possible taste of course. There is also a quiz about finding a bit of a Thameside Radio DJ which is hidden by the Hammersmith Odeon in the grounds of St Pauls church. (Sorry, let the...
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Thameside 12Apr82 17:19 Sarah goes to the Hammersmith Palais
Thameside Radio Revisited
More from Sarah from Kew on Thameside Radio 90.2 on a sunny Easter in 1982
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Thameside 12Apr82 16:32 More from Mark, and Sarah
Thameside Radio Revisited
We hear more from Mark who tells Bob to stop whatever he is doing as it's illegal and immoral! Sarah starts by playing the top 3 from 4 artists in the Thameside Radio 90.2 charts.
info_outlineThe end of the Paul James show. The Intrepid Birdman takes over. Dave plays a demo tape from a band called Kite. Sent in on reel to reel!
He also plays a tape from Radio Centraal - a Dutch pirate - saying "hello" to Thameside. More about them on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Centraal .
Soem technical info:
There is another transmitter change. The beginning of his show came from the blocks by Edgware Road (overlooking Paddington police station), the second part from the blocks in Bentford (as featured in People Just Do Nothing - a BBC TV mockumentary sitcom 2014 - 2018, the film is now in production).
The broadcast ends when there there should be is another tape and transmitter change but instead it goes off air when it should have switched to a Petts Hill.
While Thameside were monitoring the Home Office radio channel there was a battery fault with one of the handheld radios that Thameside were using to relay information. As a result Bob Edwards and Dave Birdman were caught and subsequently taken to court.