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Old 14th Feb 2020, 7:49 pm   #105
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Default Re: Favourite Radio Stations past and present.

There was still a strong music hall influence on BBC popular output in the 70s (and not only on the BBC, to be fair). Billy Cotton was hugely influential, and he was very much an old style 'variety' man. BBC comedy had to have a musical interlude well into the 80s - remember Motorhead and Pigbag playing in the 'front room' in The Young Ones for no obvious reason? Comedies like The Good Life got away with it because they were classed as drama serials, not 'variety'.
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