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It was not I have to confess my finest moment technically, but with delays gaining studio access at 7am, not enough prep time with three days in bed, and half a pharmacy in the studio ... OK so I have excised the worst of the bloopers ...A significant moment however for RG as its output went intergalactic - thanks Neil Armstrong - and I showcased some great music and ten of The Crew of Radio Glamorgan. In order: Clare Sinclair, Carl West, Roger Thomas, Justin Evans, Byron Brain, Sheldon Donovan, Simon Field, John Gilheaney, Seren Evans and Richard Manning.And as for the product placement: guilty as charged regulator but I hope that Strepsils will send a huge cheque to Radio Glamorgan.You can hear RG live on TuneIn on a browser or search in the app for Radio Glamorgan. More apps coming ...

This show is ram packed. Lots of the new Manic Street Preachers album ‘Rewind the Film’, other locals Robert Plant, Shirley Bassey, Stephen Wheel, Super Furry Animals - and Mary Hopkin.Mary Hopkin features for the second week in the No1’s This Day spot with her 1968 hit “Those Were the Days’ the first pop record I ever (helped) broadcast. That story, and the result of my Tweeting to ask is she still liked it got me all of a twitter when she replied. (She does and it’s being rereleased!).The Gareth Bonello interview about Y Bardd Anfarwol (here on its own) makes it a very musical two hours.

Another, barely under control mix of just about everything. The complete show: two hours (ish) of music and chat with the usual features - six No1s This Day, the interview all about Paul Bunyan (you get the intro and outro here as well (the ‘clean’ interview package is here as well) and yes, I really am excited! New music from Manics “Rewind the Film” and new group from Cardiff The Tarsiers (apols for mispronunciation of name and just about everything!). Rewinds for old vinyl with The Eagles anticipating their world tour coming to UK (please!!!), and Stephen Wheel.

The complete thing: two hours (ish) of music and chat with the usual features - six No1s This Day, the interview all about Cardiff Carnival (also here). Lots of new music including Mary Hopkin, David Bowie, Neon Neon, Stephen Wheel and - YES - Petula Clark (Cardiff in October, gotta get her for this show!). What a mix!Loved it - hope you do too.

Catching up with Radio Glamorgan’s new jungles/sweepers and things gives us a different feel. But all the old favourites including the number one’s for six decades, new Welsh releases like Stephen Wheel and Mary Hopkin’s latest. What not to like?A truncated version of the interview with Illtud Llÿr Dunsford is here.

Whole show in one file - including the Davy Cartwright interview sequence which is also here . Lots of regulars including the Manic Street Preachers, Christopher Rees, Gentle Good and new tracks from Sweet Baboo. Unusually The Billy Cotton Band commemorating the Dambusters in Wales the previous night, and of course six number ones this day.

New releases included: Stephen Wheel, ‘Station’; Neon Neon, ‘Jaguar’ and ‘The Leopard’ from Praxis Makes Perfect; David Bowie. ‘Where are we Now?’.The interview is with Gideon Koppel (see for interview package only). Six number 1’s this day.And lot’s of chat

Joan Armatrading continued, some cool Welsh and local and the 70/80/90’s Number 1s this day. What more do you want?

The knees are there, the technical problems with the on-air logging are resolved, and I’ve been getting out of bed to do Friday’s 10-12! This first on-line recording for a very long time (though last week’s interview with Ben Borthwick is here) is a bit of a Joan Armatrading fan-fest I’m afraid. Opens, closes and interview across the middle!But plenty of the usual stuff including the 40/50/60 Number 1s this day.

Continuing the interview with director Mike Pearson and finishing with more John Hardy music this time from Martha, Jac a Sianco. Dufy and Lorraine Ellison go head-to-head. Then This Day Number Ones: 70’s The Three Degrees, 80’s Dexy’s Midnight Runners, and 90’s Blur. Finally, Welsh&Local with Jukes Jetty, Mary Hopkin, Dafydd Iwan, and Bryn Terfel. Out on goodbyes from Teddy Thompson and Georgia Brown.

Cerys Mathews and the unreleased b-side Manics new track opened the show. News stories included using pee for energy and narrow gauges for trains. Oldies resurrected: Antony Newley and The Eagles. Then This Day Number Ones: 40’s Vaughn Monroe, 50’s Presley and 60’s Beatles. Sigur Ros and Gurrumul got us into foreign parts. Then off to The Persians for the National Theatre of Wales show, and John Hardy’s music and the interview with director Mike Pearson.

Into Welsh & Local and that Manics’ single 'Im Leaving You For Solitude’ - a new track taken from the single (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love. First play on RG. Catrin Finch, Robert Plant with Alison Kraus, Ysgol Glanaethwy complete. Then more requests: Police and Justin Beiber. More No 1s: 70’s The Three Degrees, 80’s Abba, and 90’s Bryan Adams.Reprising the amazing BBC Steven Sondheim Prom with Judi Dench’s “Send in the Clows” and Bryn Terfel with Sweeny Todd from his latest CD. More music theatre from georgia Brown and Kurt Weill’s “Speak Low” and a noisy finish with the Lost Prophets.Expect normal - ie interviews - service next week.

No interview, but lots of requests this week, so more music including a pre-release (in Part 2 ) of a track from the forthcoming Manics’ single.So, Joan Armatrading’s new album, Shirley bassey’s Manic’s penned track “The Girl from Tiger Bay”, and Osibisa making us think it was a “Sunshine Day”. Quick fanfare from the Persians and a trail for the upcoming National Theatre of Wales show, and John Hardy’s music. Then This Day Number Ones: 40’s Gracie Fields, 50’s Sir and 60’s Beatles. Loads of requests including Cat Stevens and Tracy Chapman. Over the hour, Earth Wind and Fire.

The Patrick Jones (original interview sequence here), interview continues. Then a nod to the Bafta Cymru Awards and John Hardy who has featured here, his music for “Blue Letters from Tanganyika” . Max Boyce with an untypical song from Blodeugerdd which has featured also. The second batch of No 1’s this day: Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Get Down” (1973), The Detroit Singers unknown to me “Working my way back home” (1980) and Shakespeare’s Sisters’s “Stay” (1992). Mary Hopkin’s Welsh “Y’deryn pur (Gentle Bird)”, and (in Cardiff next week) Cerys Mathews’s “Arlington Way” also in Welsh version. Inept transposition of intro with Manics’ “This Joke Sport Severed” and Gareth Bonello’s “Dawel Disgyn” (the latter being at both Laughrne Weekend and Cardiff next Thursday).Robert Cray and Queen Latifa (with a nod to Hairspray on at Wales Millennium Centre) wrap the show.

Started where we left off last week with Joan Armatrading’s new album, Duffy, and a microphone gremlin. Rare outing for Sultan’s Elephant music Décollage from Les Balayeurs Du Désert. Paul Simon sneaks in as a request. Number one’s this day include Dorothy Squires “A Tree in the Meadow” (1948), “Cumberland Gap” from Lonnie Donegan (1957) and for the second week running ‘Can’t Buy Me Love”, Beatles (1964). Georgia Brown kicks us into Gershwin’s “Summertime” before we go to Laugharne for their Weekend. Starting with Bryn Terfel and Rhys Meirion in Dylan Thomas’s “Eli Jenkins Prayer”. One of the stars of the weekend is Patrick Jones (original interview sequence here), so good excuse to reprise his interview for the show which featured, Elvis, James Dean Bradfield.

continuing the Hairy Biker Si King interview trying to get around to food as well as bikes! Si gets wrapped with Seal’s “Fly like an eagle” Manfred Mann “If you gotta go ..”. Hits this day: 70’s and 90’s Queen, 1983 Flying Pickets. All the usual suspects for Welsh & Local including more Dame Shirley, more Manics, John Cale, Dafydd Iwan.

New Shirley Bassey track by the Manics. First of new interview series about “Going Home” with clinical case manager Neil Thomas talking about the pilot scheme designed to keep people independent and out of hospital. Hits this Day: 1940’s rarity Issy Bon “I’m in love with two sweethearts”; 50s David Whitfied; 60s Beatles. Lead into Hairy Biker Si King interview, Manic’s Motorcycle Emptiness, of course.