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Duration: 40 minutes

Jo Brand narrates a profile which celebrates the life and times of the BBC's first flagship live music programme, The Old Grey Whistle Test, which ran from 1971 to 1987. It looks at the music, the presenters, the TV rivals, the sparse studio and the legacy, finds out why Bob Harris whispered, what Sid Vicious tried to do to him and what Camel did with a woodwind quartet and why. All these questions are answered and many more, followed by loving compilations of those early 70s years, the era that time forgot.

Last on

Mon 26 Sep 2011 01:00 BBC Four

Credits

Narrator
Jo Brand
Participant
Bob Harris
Participant
Annie Nightingale
Participant
Jools Holland
Participant
Mark Radcliffe
Participant
Jarvis Cocker
Participant
Paul Morley
Participant
Charles Shaar Murray
Director
Dione Newton
Producer
Dione Newton

Broadcasts

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