Carl Goss - Orwell/Saxon - The Smurfs (transition from Busta Brooker programme)

Friday & Saturday nights on Orwell & Saxon, the competition that took some knowledge to win... hence why I never got anywhere near winning!

Carl Goss - Orwell/Saxon - Hitogram Competition (1988)

Phil Archer - Orwell FM T Shirt Ad (recorded off 1170 MF)

2pm Saturday... time for football... hurry up Knightsy!

Saxon - Sportsbeat

End of Busta into Carl Goss. Saturday night on Orwell/Saxon.

Busta Brooker show end - sig - Carl Goss show opener (1988?)

Really short snippet from Chris Jarvis programme...

Chris Jarvis - Saxon - Saturday lunchtime

Phil Archer voices the closedown announcement at 1am. Around 1988 time. Quality not too good... I clearly wasn't very good with levels on cassettes back then!

Orwell/Saxon - Station 1am shutdown (bad quality tape)

Start of the Home Run programme with Alan Lee.

Home Run - Show Open (Orwell - recorded off 97-1 Sep 6th 1988)

This used to play every 10 minutes or so overnight between 1 & 5.30am...  would love to know how it was timed to play... ?

Orwell Saxon Overnight Off Air Confidence Cart Ident (Nick Coady (1989)

Lots to take in in this promo... new breakfast... more news.... going 24 hours...

Saxon - New Breakfast - Going 24 hrs Promo

10 out of 10 to Nick for producing this... how easy would it have been to just have done nothing. Funny too. April 1989 the day before the two stations began broadcasting 24 hours.

Carl Goss - Into Nick Coady - The Final closedown announce (funny)

Found a longer recording of Chris's show opener

Chris Jarvis - Show Opener (Full)

I still love the fact an entire promotion was built around plugging in an Optimod audio processor. Clever. Here's a promo for Music Power day, complete with Nigel Rennie on the end!

Orwell - Music Power Promo - with Nigel Rennie on the end

1989 time... Saxon breakfast quick ident... 

Baz Jones - Out of news Saxon breakfast

Short snippet of Tim (on Saxon breakfast) to the news at 9am. Bulletin read by John Cranston.

Tim Gough - to 9am news (Saxon 1988)

Sudbury Sports Centre was in a world of trouble....

PROMO - Saxon Radio Orwell Roadshow (Norm & Tim)

1982 - Orwell - From The Country To The Coast.... enjoy!

Radio Orwell 1982 Station Theme Jingle - From the Country to The Coast

1982 - Saxon - From the country to the coast

Saxon Radio 1982 Station Theme Jingle - From The Country To The Coast

The shortest bit of Nick in the world....

Nick Coady - Out Of News

Phil Archer - 20 Sec Streetbeat Promo

Short 10 seconds station ident filler.... useful for balancing split breaks (!)

Saxon 10 Sec Station Ident Filler

Summer 1990 - and Phillip Schofield was on the radio then too!!

BBC Radio 1 - Phillip Schofield

James Hazell - Out of 8am news - Orwell  Breakfast

This is what happened if you pressed the split button when playing a jingle - when you didn't mean to! Recorded off air from Orwell some time in 1990.

Orwell & Saxon - don't press the split button mid jingle

One Million Watts of Phillip Schofield.... and Radio 1 playing John Cougar Mellancamp... !!

BBC Radio 1 - Summer 1990 - Phillip Schofield ID

Weds Rock Show - out of ads I think... recorded 1990 time from Orwell.

Wednesday Rock Show with Nick Coady - Orwell

Sunday Super Squares intro - rec. off air from Orwell - 1990. Note the Bury phone number in the intro...

Sunday Super Squares intro with Hoff - Orwell

Weekend promo for Steve Collett overnight programme (Orwell version).

Steve Collett - Promo - Orwell

SGR Colchester idents. A file of the TM Century cuts playing when I joined SGR back in 1995... I may just have dubbed off the studio MD one day (!)

SGR Colchester Jingles - From Studio Disc Copy - October 1995

From the days of still splitting the frequencies... 

SGR FM - 1992/93 Package - Split 96-4 & 97-1 jingles

SGR FM - TM Century cuts - and a burst of John Wells from the early 1990s.

1992 - 1993 TM Century Mix of SGR FM cuts

SGR Colchester launch audio package. 17th October 1993. Danny Cox produced.

SGR Colchester Launch Audio - October 1993

Some of the cuts from the 1990 Orwell package from TM Century

Orwell FM - TM Century Jingle Package (1990)

Some of the cuts from the 1990 Saxon package from TM Century

Saxon FM - TM Century Jingle Package (1990)

Night time radio jingle from Orwell & Saxon around 1988 time. In the days of Phil Archer, Busta Brooker, Carl Goss, Martin Allen.....

Orwell & Saxon - 1988 - Night time radio jingle

Orwell jingles from late 80s. The first incarnation of Orwell FM. Don't know production company - maybe David Arnold... if you know drop me a message!

Orwell FM Jingle Package - 1989/1990

Time around 1989 I think - presenter handover from Phil Archer into Ralph Barnard on Orwell / Saxon.

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