Livewire, the student radio station of the University of East Anglia started broadcasting in October 1990 on 945kHz medium wave around campus. I was lucky enough to co-present a weekly folk show with friend Tom during the stations first year. For May Day 1991 we borrowed the station's Marantz tape recorder and headed out to record the annual May Day dance up on St James Hill, Mousehold Heath, Norwich at dawn. It's organised annually by local morris side Kemps Men and the event continues to this day. Show presenters Tom and I also danced with Yare Valley Morris, the university's morris side (sadly no longer in existence), and in between dances we interviewed several local morris personalities and other onlookers. The interviews were transferred to Livewire's reel-to-reel editing machine and carefully spliced together. The image is a copy of our promotional poster and some of the original and very simple Livewire stickers that were handed out to students when the station first went on air.

Anthony Veal