On Saturday 12 December 1964, Harold Wilson addressed his first Labour party conference as prime minister, George Harrison was photographed with his new girlfriend in the Bahamas, Pope Paul VI told Catholics they could drink alcohol ‘in moderation’ before Midnight Mass and, according to the Mirror, ‘two strip-tease girls fought in the nude in their dressing room after finishing their fan dance at a night club’.
The station has become little more than a Spotify playlist interrupted by the disc-jockey burbling
It was also the day that Record Review arrived in its Saturday morning slot on the BBC’s Third Programme, now Radio 3. And there it remained. During the Three-Day Week, the Falklands, the mourning of Diana and the post-9/11 panic, music lovers could find solace in the programme and especially ‘Building a Library’, a magisterial evaluation of rival recordings of a particular work.
Until this month, that is. Record Review and its presenter for 25 years, Andrew McGregor, have been moved to the dead air of Saturday afternoon, which I know isn’t such a big deal when you can listen to Radio 3 programmes any time you like.
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