Tuesday, 16 August 2016

Audio of Freddie on 1968 Hughie Green show


I was delighted to learn that the audio for the programme Goodbye to Didsbury, broadcast on 30th July 1968 as ABC Television was preparing to merge with Rediffusion and become Thames Television, has been made available on the Transdiffusion website here.
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Monday, 1 August 2016

It was 52 years ago today ...



To mark the fifty-second anniversary of Freddie's debut on Opportunity Knocks, here's an interview which begins with a short clip from that legendary 1964 performance. 
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