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Noddy is Saved and Bigger Spaces Please…

A statue of Noddy has been saved from the dump after a council bought it for £500.

For over 20 years the Enid Blyton character has sat in his car outside the toy shop Piccola in Epping.

The shop’s owners decided to retire and close up, so Epping Town Council bought the figure so it could remain part of the town.

The town’s mayor and Epping Town councillor Cherry McCredie, said: “All High Streets are changing and independent shops are departing. To lose the much loved Piccola as the owners of Noddy were retiring was bad enough, but to lose dear Noddy was even worse.”

Also on today’s show – 

A council is widening parking bays in some of its car parks “to accommodate the larger size of modern vehicles”.

For both Saturday and Sunday this week, there will be no service on the entire east London section of the Elizabeth line

Weather experts have issued a warning to residents as Storm Eowyn is set to sweep strong winds and rain across the UK on Friday

Martin’s Choice. Martin Brown from Billericay is a regular listener who sends in suggestions for a great track to play. This week it was a bit of SKA! – “Special Brew” is a song by British 2-tone and ska band Bad Manners, released in September 1980 and was the third single from their first album Ska ‘n’ B. It was the band’s joint biggest hit in the UK, reaching number 3 in the UK Singles Chart, where it stayed for two weeks. Thanks Martin!

Today’s Musical Birthdays – 

1931 – Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (d. 1964)

1960 – Michael Hutchence, (INXS) Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1997)

Song for Daphne – “When I’m Cleaning Windows” is a comedy song performed by Lancastrian comic, actor and ukulele player George Formby. It first appeared in the 1936 film Keep Your Seats, Please. The song was credited as written by Formby, Harry Gifford and Fred E. Cliffe.

The song’s lyrics were racy for the time, and was consequently banned by the BBC from being played on the radio. The corporation’s director general John Reith stated that “if the public wants to listen to Formby singing his disgusting little ditty, they’ll have to be content to hear it in the cinemas, not over the nation’s airwaves”;

Formby and his wife and manager Beryl Ingham were dismayed with the block on the song.  In May 1941, Ingham informed the BBC that the song was a favourite of the royal family, particularly Queen Mary, while a statement by Formby pointed out that “I sang it before the King and Queen at the Royal Variety Performance”. The BBC relented and started to broadcast the song.

The record’s sales were so successful that Regal Zonophone awarded Formby the first silver disc for sales of over 100,000 copies.

You Can Listen to the show here –

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Noddy is Saved and Bigger Spaces Please…

A statue of Noddy has been saved from the dump after a council bought it for £500.

For over 20 years the Enid Blyton character has sat in his car outside the toy shop Piccola in Epping.

The shop’s owners decided to retire and close up, so Epping Town Council bought the figure so it could remain part of the town.

The town’s mayor and Epping Town councillor Cherry McCredie, said: “All High Streets are changing and independent shops are departing. To lose the much loved Piccola as the owners of Noddy were retiring was bad enough, but to lose dear Noddy was even worse.”

Also on today’s show – 

A council is widening parking bays in some of its car parks “to accommodate the larger size of modern vehicles”.

For both Saturday and Sunday this week, there will be no service on the entire east London section of the Elizabeth line

Weather experts have issued a warning to residents as Storm Eowyn is set to sweep strong winds and rain across the UK on Friday

Martin’s Choice. Martin Brown from Billericay is a regular listener who sends in suggestions for a great track to play. This week it was a bit of SKA! – “Special Brew” is a song by British 2-tone and ska band Bad Manners, released in September 1980 and was the third single from their first album Ska ‘n’ B. It was the band’s joint biggest hit in the UK, reaching number 3 in the UK Singles Chart, where it stayed for two weeks. Thanks Martin!

Today’s Musical Birthdays – 

1931 – Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (d. 1964)

1960 – Michael Hutchence, (INXS) Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1997)

Song for Daphne – “When I’m Cleaning Windows” is a comedy song performed by Lancastrian comic, actor and ukulele player George Formby. It first appeared in the 1936 film Keep Your Seats, Please. The song was credited as written by Formby, Harry Gifford and Fred E. Cliffe.

The song’s lyrics were racy for the time, and was consequently banned by the BBC from being played on the radio. The corporation’s director general John Reith stated that “if the public wants to listen to Formby singing his disgusting little ditty, they’ll have to be content to hear it in the cinemas, not over the nation’s airwaves”;

Formby and his wife and manager Beryl Ingham were dismayed with the block on the song.  In May 1941, Ingham informed the BBC that the song was a favourite of the royal family, particularly Queen Mary, while a statement by Formby pointed out that “I sang it before the King and Queen at the Royal Variety Performance”. The BBC relented and started to broadcast the song.

The record’s sales were so successful that Regal Zonophone awarded Formby the first silver disc for sales of over 100,000 copies.

You Can Listen to the show here –

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Noddy is Saved and Bigger Spaces Please…

A statue of Noddy has been saved from the dump after a council bought it for £500.

For over 20 years the Enid Blyton character has sat in his car outside the toy shop Piccola in Epping.

The shop’s owners decided to retire and close up, so Epping Town Council bought the figure so it could remain part of the town.

The town’s mayor and Epping Town councillor Cherry McCredie, said: “All High Streets are changing and independent shops are departing. To lose the much loved Piccola as the owners of Noddy were retiring was bad enough, but to lose dear Noddy was even worse.”

Also on today’s show – 

A council is widening parking bays in some of its car parks “to accommodate the larger size of modern vehicles”.

For both Saturday and Sunday this week, there will be no service on the entire east London section of the Elizabeth line

Weather experts have issued a warning to residents as Storm Eowyn is set to sweep strong winds and rain across the UK on Friday

Martin’s Choice. Martin Brown from Billericay is a regular listener who sends in suggestions for a great track to play. This week it was a bit of SKA! – “Special Brew” is a song by British 2-tone and ska band Bad Manners, released in September 1980 and was the third single from their first album Ska ‘n’ B. It was the band’s joint biggest hit in the UK, reaching number 3 in the UK Singles Chart, where it stayed for two weeks. Thanks Martin!

Today’s Musical Birthdays – 

1931 – Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (d. 1964)

1960 – Michael Hutchence, (INXS) Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1997)

Song for Daphne – “When I’m Cleaning Windows” is a comedy song performed by Lancastrian comic, actor and ukulele player George Formby. It first appeared in the 1936 film Keep Your Seats, Please. The song was credited as written by Formby, Harry Gifford and Fred E. Cliffe.

The song’s lyrics were racy for the time, and was consequently banned by the BBC from being played on the radio. The corporation’s director general John Reith stated that “if the public wants to listen to Formby singing his disgusting little ditty, they’ll have to be content to hear it in the cinemas, not over the nation’s airwaves”;

Formby and his wife and manager Beryl Ingham were dismayed with the block on the song.  In May 1941, Ingham informed the BBC that the song was a favourite of the royal family, particularly Queen Mary, while a statement by Formby pointed out that “I sang it before the King and Queen at the Royal Variety Performance”. The BBC relented and started to broadcast the song.

The record’s sales were so successful that Regal Zonophone awarded Formby the first silver disc for sales of over 100,000 copies.

You Can Listen to the show here –

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Noddy is Saved and Bigger Spaces Please…

A statue of Noddy has been saved from the dump after a council bought it for £500.

For over 20 years the Enid Blyton character has sat in his car outside the toy shop Piccola in Epping.

The shop’s owners decided to retire and close up, so Epping Town Council bought the figure so it could remain part of the town.

The town’s mayor and Epping Town councillor Cherry McCredie, said: “All High Streets are changing and independent shops are departing. To lose the much loved Piccola as the owners of Noddy were retiring was bad enough, but to lose dear Noddy was even worse.”

Also on today’s show – 

A council is widening parking bays in some of its car parks “to accommodate the larger size of modern vehicles”.

For both Saturday and Sunday this week, there will be no service on the entire east London section of the Elizabeth line

Weather experts have issued a warning to residents as Storm Eowyn is set to sweep strong winds and rain across the UK on Friday

Martin’s Choice. Martin Brown from Billericay is a regular listener who sends in suggestions for a great track to play. This week it was a bit of SKA! – “Special Brew” is a song by British 2-tone and ska band Bad Manners, released in September 1980 and was the third single from their first album Ska ‘n’ B. It was the band’s joint biggest hit in the UK, reaching number 3 in the UK Singles Chart, where it stayed for two weeks. Thanks Martin!

Today’s Musical Birthdays – 

1931 – Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (d. 1964)

1960 – Michael Hutchence, (INXS) Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1997)

Song for Daphne – “When I’m Cleaning Windows” is a comedy song performed by Lancastrian comic, actor and ukulele player George Formby. It first appeared in the 1936 film Keep Your Seats, Please. The song was credited as written by Formby, Harry Gifford and Fred E. Cliffe.

The song’s lyrics were racy for the time, and was consequently banned by the BBC from being played on the radio. The corporation’s director general John Reith stated that “if the public wants to listen to Formby singing his disgusting little ditty, they’ll have to be content to hear it in the cinemas, not over the nation’s airwaves”;

Formby and his wife and manager Beryl Ingham were dismayed with the block on the song.  In May 1941, Ingham informed the BBC that the song was a favourite of the royal family, particularly Queen Mary, while a statement by Formby pointed out that “I sang it before the King and Queen at the Royal Variety Performance”. The BBC relented and started to broadcast the song.

The record’s sales were so successful that Regal Zonophone awarded Formby the first silver disc for sales of over 100,000 copies.

You Can Listen to the show here –

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