Annie Nightingale (“the great goth auntie”), choirs on pop records & the music they sent into space

We stuck a coin in this week’s jukebox of news and cranked up the volume and these were the tracks that got played ...

... fond memories of Annie Nightingale at Radio One and Whistle Test.

... the delicious melancholy of Sunday night pop radio.

... how David Gilmour writes songs.

... sex, clothes, gangsters: the eternal allure of Bonnie & Clyde.

... how the first Police album (including three hit singles) was recorded by a former doctor in a four-track studio above a dairy in Leatherhead for £1,500, and the band’s touching tribute when he died.

... the British Library hijack hack.

... the fantasy theme of so many ‘60s movies: ‘escape’.

... Ridley Scott’s Hovis ad.

... Blind Willie Johnson, Chuck Berry ... Blodwyn Pig? The five tracks you’d send into space to represent life on earth.

... how future wars will be started.

... plus birthday guest Sandra Austin on the best use of choirs on records among them Aretha Franklin’s You’ve Got A Friend, Blur’s Tender, the Stones’ You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Roy Harper’s When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease.

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