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[mariana44]

Hi--I have mentioned this before--I used to go to HMV--look through all the 78's and listen to them in one of their booths. Or listen to "Family Favourites", one of the few music programmes on---but I learned most of my music from Radio Luxembourg--not a pirate radio station-I'm not sure what it was, but it was the only way to hear popular music.

Marian

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Hi Marian and Paul, we were also listeners to Radio Luxembourg "The Station Of The Stars" on 208, and most popular in the Fifties and Sixties. In the earlier days this station had Forty Five per cent of the Sunday listening audience against BBCs Thirty Five per cent, but after war broke out BBC returned because commercial broadcasting into the UK had stopped.
There is a book entitled "Under The Bedclothes " (so appropriate to so many of us that you have mentioned Marian.) written by Janet Alldis about her father who was broadcaster and presenter for the station Barry Alldis. Should bring back memories.