E959 - The world’s greatest radio station! & things we loved about Dolly Parton

Passing the conversational Dutchie 'pon the left hand side, we fire up the following …

… “speech, not music, brings people together”

… if music gets ever broader, why’s radio getting more niche?

… can YOU guess the NME’s 10 most influential bands in 2002?

… a doomed Dolly Parton kidnap attempt at the Hammersmith Odeon: we were there!

… ‘Voice-tracking’, ‘auditorium testing’ and other network radio secrets

... 61 year-old listener hears the Beatles for the first time and reports back. (Chapeau, Jelltex!)

 … short-lived...