Great to have this! I listened to Chiltern Radio in the 80's. Not only are the new stations crap, FM is a fast dying format now, I haven't listened to FM Radio in probably 12 years. I love music, so I stream it free on various Android apps. No commercials, no people talking. It's great!
Great to see this Phil, thank for posting. one stand out moment from back in the day was a young kid calling in and asking. "How do you stop Phil Fothergill from drowning.......... take your foot off his head" Always stuck with me all these years. Miss Chris Seymour's Rolling Quiz, was a great format.
Nothing today comes close to Chiltern's early days.McKenna,Bill Young,Chiltern reports,then Tony West.If it could be marketed today it would be priceless.Even the attention to the quality of the jingles. Thanks Phil for the memories. Alan @ Clophill
Northants 96 - The Hot FM. I was a massive fan. Fantastic presenters, beautiful jingles and great music. I love the travel news bed. I so miss The Chiltern Network.
Wonderful memories of that building... even the brown sound proofing design! There was a buzz about that building I don't think I ever found again in my entire career!
after the pirates we enjoyed ILR local radio across the UK many stations of which I visited as I had a real passion for radio , Chiltern Radio were Brill broadcasting from a school in Chiltern Road Dunstable I liked the djs and the soul shows and the radio jingle was great well put together thank you Phil Fothergill Martin Collins Louie Martin and all the others for the great days of entertainment
Yes thank you Phil for what you did at Chiltern, I was so sad when Chiltern was taken over. I was was never a fan of Radio 1 or Radio BORE as you once put it in one of your sketches :-)
great watching that - brought back good memories , I was born in Houghton Regis and grew up in Dunstable and it was so exciting tuning into Chiltern radio's first broadcasting day on AM Radio up until then we only had Radio 1 in the area and it was not local or give you any of the local news or events, but Chiltern radio changed all that. Very exciting. A week before Chiltern went to air I would listen to the pre-launch trailer over and over again. 2 songs I remember were Joan Armatrading 'im Lucky' and Simon and Garfunkle 'The Boxer' and Phil Fothergill and Paul McKenna and peter wagstaff(?) and bill you asking listeners to join them and listen in - great times and great to see this video up on here.
Herts, Beds and Bucks really had one of the best ILR stations in the country, when you look back. Thank you Phil for putting this together. I wonder if the shareholders in 1995 now regret their decision to allow the GWR takeover. They killed so many great radio stations. Scandalous.
Back in 1983 I remember that on our way back from School we would call into Chiltern Radio if we heard an artist was in. I met Paul Young and some Kajagoogoo members but having left school in Summer 1983 I recall a year or so later a friend of the family knew Phil Fothergill and I was subsequently invited to have a look around the station one day. Great memories for me too as the radio station building was originally my junior school. I love or should I say now appreciate the jingle!
Gosh, I just stumbled across this video. Thanks for producing it Phil. I remember that studio open day and queuing for ages just to get a glimpse of the studios!
Thanks for the video, brought back very old memories of the studios in Chiltern Road, when was on Louie Martin's show. Always remember the sound proofing in the studios, splicing tape and eveyone always frantically pressing the combination locks to get through the doors, also the outside broadcast in MK shopping centre. Thanks for the video.
I didn't expect to find anything about Chiltern Radio. I used to listen to it intensely from late 1981 to about 1995 when it was taken over :-( I miss it, the replacement company killed local radio as it was when Chiltern was around. I loved all the jingles, in fact I used to record them off the radio and still have them. The ones in this video are different from what I have which were probably between 1983 to 1985. Bill Young's Monday Moan line, Pete Wagstaff, Philly and Billy on Saturday..
i loved chiltern radio,still remember the soul shows hosted by martin collins and louie martin,the rolling quiz with chris seymour and neil francis,paul o reilly sunday night at 7pm after kid jensons network chart,happy days and great radio,sadly long gone,nice to hear martin collins on magic now and paul phear who hosted the breakfast show on chiltern radio,now on smooth radio.
Such cool memories! Used to listen to chiltern radio in the early - mid 80s. Remember at night they used to play the disco mixes of hits, remember those? I didn't know that these were simply the 12" versions of the hits rocking the charts back in the day. Chiltern was the only radio station that played the extended versions of tunes such as Kajagoogoo too shy, and songs by Imagination.
So that's what Sim Harris looked like! Thank you so much for uploading this. I used to listen to Chiltern Radio from 1982 more or less, non stop till it was taken over by GWR. I was addicted. I miss it as local radio has never been the same. Bill Youngs Monday moan line and Philly and Billy on Saturday morning, Pete Wagstaff, Steve Fountain to name a few.
Phil. Thank you SO much for posting this stuff. Chiltern (and your programming) are the reasons I got into radio. Putting faces to those singers of the chiltern song is magic! Thanks, mark
I remember being dragged into the studios most weekends when my dad worked for Chiltern. Loved running loose around the halls & even got to meet Julian Lennon. Great days
Thanks for the upload. This is really interesting stuff. I'm researching the Megatron flying saucer restaurant that used to be at Alconbury, Cambs. Some people have said that it had adverts broadcast on Chiltern, Mid Anglia, and Hereward in the early 1990s. Does anyone know where we might find recordings from that time, either in public archives or private collections? It might also have been mentioned on the news or by DJs, not least because people reported it as a genuine UFO when it opened in 1990. It would be great to see what we can find.
Really miss Andy Gelder and Nick Lawrence on the breakfast show from back in the 90's. Also back in the 80's, there was Scott Shannons Rocking America, brilliant time to be a teenager! I'm surprised no one has done a tribute internet radio station!
Arun. The Gentlemen at 26secs left to right are Stuart the financial controller, Peter, sales director, Phil Fothergill programme director, Colin Mason, managing director, and Richard Robinson, chief engineer.
Such a shame that Chiltern went along with so many other great stations. Chiltern and Leicester Sound were 2 of the biggest sounding stations. Never ever listen to what has replaced them.
I went to the Chiltern Road Studio open day way back then, I might even star in this video.. although I couldn't see myself - from what I can recall it was great day though
Who was the Chiltern Radio operative who had a slot reporting the gossip at the time while having Ike Turner's (and his Kings of Rhthym) New Breed Part 1 instrumental track playing in the background? The year would have been around 1990-1. Great memories, and judging by the video, it looks like Chiltern Radio was one big happy family.
At 12 minutes and 05 seconds into the video who is the lady with glasses? She reminds me of my former headmistress Mrs Hall who ran Chiltern Road Lower School when I was just 5 years old. Is it her?
Hi Phil! I'm over the moon about stumbling upon this! Thank you so much for producing such a great video about your great station. What foresight you had to video so much of these precious and delightful days. I don't know if you'll remember but I used to work there part time while I was still at school. I started by stacking carts and filling out PRS forms for Tara and reclaiming 1/4" tape in the Bedford studios before being tech op for Chris on Sunday for Seven Days then with Jerry Allen on Organ Showcase. I'd absolutely love to chew the fat, please give me a shout on email or @andyivanbell on Twitter if you'd like to. Cheers!
I was offered a job by yourself at Chiltern in, ooh gosh, I think somewhere between 85-87 probably. Unfortunately your enforced (and unfair) departure from the station meant I was never able to take up the appointment - a great disappointment at the time. Although I had a pretty successful career subsequently (now retired), I have always regretted not being able to take it up. Colin Mason, who I had dealings with often in subsequent years, was not a nice person in any sense. My best wishes to yourself. Simon
Great to have this! I listened to Chiltern Radio in the 80's.
Not only are the new stations crap, FM is a fast dying format now, I haven't listened to FM Radio in probably 12 years. I love music, so I stream it free on various Android apps. No commercials, no people talking. It's great!
Great to see this Phil, thank for posting. one stand out moment from back in the day was a young kid calling in and asking. "How do you stop Phil Fothergill from drowning.......... take your foot off his head" Always stuck with me all these years. Miss Chris Seymour's Rolling Quiz, was a great format.
Wow memories. Thanks for the comment
Nothing today comes close to Chiltern's early days.McKenna,Bill Young,Chiltern reports,then Tony West.If it could be marketed today it would be priceless.Even the attention to the quality of the jingles. Thanks Phil for the memories.
Alan @ Clophill
Northants 96 - The Hot FM. I was a massive fan. Fantastic presenters, beautiful jingles and great music. I love the travel news bed. I so miss The Chiltern Network.
Wonderful memories of that building... even the brown sound proofing design! There was a buzz about that building I don't think I ever found again in my entire career!
after the pirates we enjoyed ILR local radio across the UK many stations of which I visited as I had a real passion for radio , Chiltern Radio were Brill broadcasting from a school in Chiltern Road Dunstable I liked the djs and the soul shows and the radio jingle was great well put together thank you Phil Fothergill Martin Collins Louie Martin and all the others for the great days of entertainment
+Keith Spencer Thanks for those great comments Keith.
Yes thank you Phil for what you did at Chiltern, I was so sad when Chiltern was taken over. I was was never a fan of Radio 1 or Radio BORE as you once put it in one of your sketches :-)
Radio was pure magic back then, great fun to work in, I joined the sales team summer of 1987, regards to all :)
Wonderful memories. I was an Engineer at Dunstable from 1981-88
Chris V.
+Chris V great to see you here Chris
great watching that - brought back good memories , I was born in Houghton Regis and grew up in Dunstable and it was so exciting tuning into Chiltern radio's first broadcasting day on AM Radio up until then we only had Radio 1 in the area and it was not local or give you any of the local news or events, but Chiltern radio changed all that. Very exciting.
A week before Chiltern went to air I would listen to the pre-launch trailer over and over again. 2 songs I remember were Joan Armatrading 'im Lucky' and Simon and Garfunkle 'The Boxer' and Phil Fothergill and Paul McKenna and peter wagstaff(?) and bill you asking listeners to join them and listen in - great times and great to see this video up on here.
The Hot FM/ Chiltern radio 97.6 and SuperGold 828 were great stations. With great music mixes and jingles.
Herts, Beds and Bucks really had one of the best ILR stations in the country, when you look back. Thank you Phil for putting this together. I wonder if the shareholders in 1995 now regret their decision to allow the GWR takeover. They killed so many great radio stations. Scandalous.
Back in 1983 I remember that on our way back from School we would call into Chiltern Radio if we heard an artist was in. I met Paul Young and some Kajagoogoo members but having left school in Summer 1983 I recall a year or so later a friend of the family knew Phil Fothergill and I was subsequently invited to have a look around the station one day.
Great memories for me too as the radio station building was originally my junior school.
I love or should I say now appreciate the jingle!
Gosh, I just stumbled across this video. Thanks for producing it Phil. I remember that studio open day and queuing for ages just to get a glimpse of the studios!
Thanks for the video, brought back very old memories of the studios in Chiltern Road, when was on Louie Martin's show. Always remember the sound proofing in the studios, splicing tape and eveyone always frantically pressing the combination locks to get through the doors, also the outside broadcast in MK shopping centre. Thanks for the video.
I didn't expect to find anything about Chiltern Radio. I used to listen to it intensely from late 1981 to about 1995 when it was taken over :-(
I miss it, the replacement company killed local radio as it was when Chiltern was around.
I loved all the jingles, in fact I used to record them off the radio and still have them. The ones in this video are different from what I have which were probably between 1983 to 1985.
Bill Young's Monday Moan line, Pete Wagstaff, Philly and Billy on Saturday..
i loved chiltern radio,still remember the soul shows hosted by martin collins and louie martin,the rolling quiz with chris seymour and neil francis,paul o reilly sunday night at 7pm after kid jensons network chart,happy days and great radio,sadly long gone,nice to hear martin collins on magic now and paul phear who hosted the breakfast show on chiltern radio,now on smooth radio.
+Derek Bunning Many thanks for sharing your memories Derek
Memories overload watching this and reading the comments.
Such cool memories!
Used to listen to chiltern radio in the early - mid 80s. Remember at night they used to play the disco mixes of hits, remember those? I didn't know that these were simply the 12" versions of the hits rocking the charts back in the day. Chiltern was the only radio station that played the extended versions of tunes such as Kajagoogoo too shy, and songs by Imagination.
Thanks Alan. Great times and happy memories
So that's what Sim Harris looked like! Thank you so much for uploading this. I used to listen to Chiltern Radio from 1982 more or less, non stop till it was taken over by GWR. I was addicted. I miss it as local radio has never been the same. Bill Youngs Monday moan line and Philly and Billy on Saturday morning, Pete Wagstaff, Steve Fountain to name a few.
I once wound Bill Young up live on air on his moan line, wish I had kept the tape!
Phil. Thank you SO much for posting this stuff. Chiltern (and your programming) are the reasons I got into radio. Putting faces to those singers of the chiltern song is magic! Thanks, mark
instablaster.
Thank-you Phil for this, and my first proper job in the radio business.
I remember being dragged into the studios most weekends when my dad worked for Chiltern. Loved running loose around the halls & even got to meet Julian Lennon. Great days
Memories! I went out with Rob Chance,one of your radio engineers, that was a long while ago!
Thanks for the upload. This is really interesting stuff.
I'm researching the Megatron flying saucer restaurant that used to be at Alconbury, Cambs. Some people have said that it had adverts broadcast on Chiltern, Mid Anglia, and Hereward in the early 1990s. Does anyone know where we might find recordings from that time, either in public archives or private collections? It might also have been mentioned on the news or by DJs, not least because people reported it as a genuine UFO when it opened in 1990.
It would be great to see what we can find.
HI, I remember and will have to put my video up here of them building the station literally .
The jingles were great, somehow I found the entire 1983 and 1984 packages and downloaded the lot!! Sad, eh??
Where from?
@@fluxington It is so long ago now, but I will check. PM me.
That vevue was my old school and one of my best friends back then was Rowena!
Really miss Andy Gelder and Nick Lawrence on the breakfast show from back in the 90's. Also back in the 80's, there was Scott Shannons Rocking America, brilliant time to be a teenager! I'm surprised no one has done a tribute internet radio station!
Thanks for this great feedback. First one for 4 years on this site. lol.
Arun. The Gentlemen at 26secs left to right are Stuart the financial controller, Peter, sales director, Phil Fothergill programme director, Colin Mason, managing director, and Richard Robinson, chief engineer.
Such a shame that Chiltern went along with so many other great stations. Chiltern and Leicester Sound were 2 of the biggest sounding stations. Never ever listen to what has replaced them.
Thanks Phil for your reply.
I went to the Chiltern Road Studio open day way back then, I might even star in this video.. although I couldn't see myself - from what I can recall it was great day though
My pleasure take care and good luck Phil ....
Who was the Chiltern Radio operative who had a slot reporting the gossip at the time while having Ike Turner's (and his Kings of Rhthym) New Breed Part 1 instrumental track playing in the background? The year would have been around 1990-1. Great memories, and judging by the video, it looks like Chiltern Radio was one big happy family.
Great memories. Could you identify the gentlemen in the photo @ 26 secs please. Thanks.
Anyone know what music is being played at 13:40?
Does any one remember the dance group Chiltern Kiss?
At 12 minutes and 05 seconds into the video who is the lady with glasses? She reminds me of my former headmistress Mrs Hall who ran Chiltern Road Lower School when I was just 5 years old. Is it her?
Paul McKenna?!
+giagnorio86 Paul is now hugely successful and now lives mostly in Los Angeles
12:45... I had one of those teddys... lol
Hi Phil! I'm over the moon about stumbling upon this! Thank you so much for producing such a great video about your great station. What foresight you had to video so much of these precious and delightful days. I don't know if you'll remember but I used to work there part time while I was still at school. I started by stacking carts and filling out PRS forms for Tara and reclaiming 1/4" tape in the Bedford studios before being tech op for Chris on Sunday for Seven Days then with Jerry Allen on Organ Showcase. I'd absolutely love to chew the fat, please give me a shout on email or @andyivanbell on Twitter if you'd like to.
Cheers!
+Andy Bell Wow Andy thanks for those great memories. Sorry for taking so long to reply to you
14:04 disaster tape? doom music?
Yes it was a standby tape of serious music in case of a royal death or major tragedy.
I was offered a job by yourself at Chiltern in, ooh gosh, I think somewhere between 85-87 probably. Unfortunately your enforced (and unfair) departure from the station meant I was never able to take up the appointment - a great disappointment at the time. Although I had a pretty successful career subsequently (now retired), I have always regretted not being able to take it up. Colin Mason, who I had dealings with often in subsequent years, was not a nice person in any sense. My best wishes to yourself. Simon
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