Sunday lunchtime in the 1960's

[JOHN HABS]

What prompted this thread was seeing another mentioning Radio Luxemburg......

When I was a child our family use to listen every Sunday morning to Billy Cotton's radio show or the radio show for overseas forces ( just forget what that was called ).

My gran would be preparing the sunday lunch: nice big thick squares of yorkshire pud, roast potatoes, cabbage or sprouts and a decent size helping of roast beef.

When the meat was cooked and ready to be served, my gran would empty the juices from the meat into a basin so we could have some dripping, she would then cut me a thick slice of bread and wipe it around the meat tin until it had soaked up some of the hot dripping and the bread had absorbed little bits of meat - use to love it.

Anyone else on here ever had that ?

Did you or your parents ever listen to Billy Cotton's radio show or the overseas show ?

[mikeG]

I think it was Forces Favourites. Also on then was Educating Archie. Peter Brough must be the only ventriloquist to work on radio. Gilbert Harding played Archie's schoolmaster followed by Max Bygraves.

[harvey19]

In the second half of the 1960s they were spent in the working mans club when home or NAAFI if away.

[curriechick]

Yes dad's and grandad's used to go to the pub or the working men's club, play tombola, see "the turn" and come home at 2pm prompt for Sunday lunch. When we kid's were older we were sometimes allowed to accompany them to the club as they let kid's in then. We would have a bottle of coke or shandy and a bag of nibbits and if there was a group singing we could dance in front of the stage.

[Downsunder]

Did you or your parents ever listen to Billy Cotton's radio show or the overseas show ?

 

I remember those Sundays well, when we had nothing to do, just knocking around the house, Mum would be doing the ironing and listening to Billy Cotton - 'Wakey! Wakey!' Thats about all I remember of Billy Cotton.

 

Forces Favourites I remember was nearly always presented by a woman, she would play requests and send messages to relatives serving in British forces abroad. All these bases had call signs starting with B.F.P.O. (British Forces Posted Overseas) followed by a number.

 

Those were the days when radio was king - before the box came and made zombies of us all.

[curriechick]

The Sunday radio show I remember were probably later 60's it was tea time and we would listen to the top 20, taping it onto cassette tapes sometimes, this was followed by Sing Something Simple, which was a bit like the Black and White Minstrels (remember them) show but for radio.

[hillsbro]

Forces Favourites I remember was nearly always presented by a woman, she would play requests and send messages to relatives serving in British forces abroad...

This would be Jean Metcalfe, see here..

[soft ayperth]

This would be Jean Metcalfe, see here..

 

Yes, and I remember it as Two-Way Family Favorites which as the web site says it was called after the war.

[le-joker]

Forces Favourites

 

Then Billy Cotton Band Show, Hey you ! You down there with the glasses !

 

Then Jimmy Clitheroe

 

Then go into front room to play 45s on radiogram whilst mom washed pots.

 

Then at 4pm Alan Freeman. Hi pop Pickers!

[mikeG]

I think 'Take it from Here' was on in the early 50's. Jimmy Edwards, June Whitfield and Dick Bentley ?? who said 'Yes Eth' a lot.