Audio Comfort Food
Every Sunday at 4pm on Medway Pride Radio, Neil and Dan present Audio Comfort Food – a feast of music in three courses. Requests and themes; “This Year In” taking you back to this week’s Top 40 in a given year; plus things to do in and around Medway in the coming week. This is the official ACF page with our preview videos; YouTube clips; and the “Correction Section” where we do our fact-checking (after the show has been broadcast!). You can also get in touch to request your audio comfort food track!
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AUDIO COMFORT FOOD | SUNDAY 31 JULY | PLACES | BACK TO 1978 | THINGS TO DO
We brought you place-related names plus our pick of funny names and some Meaning of Liffs. Plus a journey back to 1978 – a year of great music and great films. Also the usual things to do section plus our tribute to the late Bernard Cribbins – don't dig there, dig it elsewhere!
Correction Section!
We talk rubbish for two hours every Sunday, and don’t always manage to check our facts before (or during) the broadcast! This is the place to rectify that! We’ll add any corrections to our erroneous blather here – and you can use the form below to get in touch if you think we need to stand corrected.
Episode 64 – 24 July – Mary Mungo & Midge, scandal and Holiday!
Newsreader Richard Baker narrated BBC children’s animations Mary, Mungo and Midge (1969) and Teddy Edward (1973). Check out the YouTube clip for the former.
Dan was right about the Leslie Grantham scandal details: in 2004 a Sunday newspaper journalist published webcam photos of the Dirty Den actor exposing himself and sucking his finger. The woman he was talking to turned out to be an undercover reporter and the erotic photos went viral. The same paper also claimed he insulted several of his EastEnders colleagues, including Shane Richie, Wendy Richard, Kim Medcalf and Jessie Wallace. Further claims then emerged that he had exposed himself on webcam to two other women. He later apologised but was dropped from EastEnders and his character killed off for good.
BBC1’s Holiday programme ran from 1969 to 2007. It had loads of theme tunes through the years, including compositions by Simon May and Paul Hardcastle. It did indeed use Here Come the Sun in the ‘70s, as Neil remembered, but a cover version of the original by The Beatles. History (ie Wikipedia) does not record the artist responsible for the version used. Presenters were Cliff Michelmore, Ginny Buckley, Joan Bakewell, Anne Gregg, Frank Bough, Desmond Lynam, Eamonn Holmes, Anneka Rice, Jill Dando, Rizwana Lateef, Craig Doyle and Nana Akua.
That’s all the errata for this week – tune in at 4pm on Sunday and if you want to contradict anything we say just use the form below!
HIGH RISE
Mary Mungo & Midge depicted late ’60s high-rise living for Mary, her dog and, er, a mouse. Lasting just one series, it was narrated by BBC newsreader, Richard Baker. Here's an episode…
Music Played
Audio Comfort Food Episode 65 | 31 July | Places | 1978 | Things to do
California Soul Marlena Shaw
Chelsea Dagger Fratellis
Hong Kong Garden Siouxsie & the Banshees
Baker Street Undercover
Into The Hollywood Groove Madonnna ft Missy Elliot
Loco in Acapulco Four Tops
LDN Lily Allen
Eton Rifles The Jam
Northern Lights Renaissance
Life’s Been Good Joe Walsh
If the Kids Are United Sham 69
Forever Autumn Justin Hayward
Rivers of Babylon Boney M
Dancin’ in the City Marshall Hain
Substitute Clout
You’re the One That I Want John Travolta & Olivia N-J
Bridge to Your Heart Wax
Get Over You Sophie Trellis Inspector
Elenore The Turtles
Jump (For My Love) The Pointer Sisters
Beautiful Ones Suede
Levitating Dua Lipa ft DaBaby
Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) De La Soul
Right Said Fred Bernard Cribbins
Use this form to contact the show. Request your Audio Comfort Food Track. We can give you a shout-out on air! Plus, let us know of any events you are involved with so we can include them in our “things to do” round-up (we include events for the week following the show). Correct our erroneous waffle! Or send your ideas for musical themes.