The first hour includes a large Suzi and a Suzanne caution, as well as a White Plains song to start their Seventies success. The Detroit Emeralds are after something, whilst Hot Chocolate found it. A 1978 revival is the Kenny Everett Video Show tune.
From 9 until 10 o’clock is this week’s Chart from 1977. It starts with Rod and may end with Leo depending on time keeping and how much I natter between the songs. Join me if you can for pure seventies nostalgia.
Saturday Breakfast – We hope to be live at a Stroke Association coffee morning (10-12) at St John’s Methodist Church, Market Weighton, to talk to local craftspeople at their stalls. We will also find out about the work of the Association.
Saturday Theatre (12-1) – Tony Barker talks to the lady behind Keira Dance as she brings her touring production to East Yorkshire as part of the ArtERY season. Also, Kate Bramley of Badapple Theatre explains about Eddie and the Gold Tops which is touring the East Riding, and we hear from Beverley Musical Theatre as Annie opens at Hull New Theatre from Tuesday.
Sport – During Saturday’s sports programme (2-6), Vixen 101 catches up with the Rev Les low from Pocklington as he arrives in Paris at the end of his mammoth fund-raising cycle ride from London. He and his two sons are raising money for a project helping young and disdvantaged people in West Yorkshire.
Sunday – Stuart Cocker Show (2-4): Join Stuart to hear about Dove House Hospice’s plans for a series of sponsored walks to raise money for the East Yorkshire charity next weekend. Plus he will be looking ahead to forthcoming events at the Pocklington Arts Centre.
From 1971 we’ll have a song from Stevie Wonder that was nominated for a Grammy Award. There’s a link between rebel, the sun and George Harrison. Eric Clapton writes a song for Patti Boyd in 1978. Guys ‘n’ Dolls remake an Italian ballad and the Tams start the decade with three bees. Plenty more to fill the first hour…..
Charting songs between 9 and 10 o’clock is from this week in 1976, starting with Abba and probably ending in the arms of Mary.
Pure nostalgia? I expect so.
On Saturday Breakfast (8-11), we hope to meet the cyclists from Market Weighton who are setting off on a weekend sponsored ride through the Yorkshire Wolds to raise money for Breast Cancer.
In Saturday Theatre, Tony Barker meets a new name on the amateur dramatics circuit in the area, or so he thinks. He talks to the chairman of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild about a show they are trying to stage in July in Market Weighton. Plus, Inspector Pratt is at large in the Peter Gordon play, A Secondary Cause of Death. Find out why the incompetent sleuth is lurking in East Yorkshire, between 12.30 and 1.
May the 4th be with you. Join Darren Duckworth on the first Friday of the month from 1pm to 4pm for the start of the weekend. Winding down your working week with a selection of the latest chart hitters, past requests yet to play and what’s on for the weekend in the first hour.
Hits & Headlines from a chosen year in hour two. Will it be the 70s/80s or 90s? Playing number one hits from that chosen year and dropping a few clues as to which year it is.
Your requests and dedications in hour three, with one or two space-themed tracks thrown into the mix. Text: 07766 40 41 42 starting with the word Vixen then your message or e-mail: studio@vixen101.co.uk with your choices and follow on twitter: @Vixen101fm
This Wednesday we’ve songs from Junior Walker & the All Stars, Tremeloes, Ozark Mountain Dare Devils, Don Williams and Terry Jacks. Plus Phil Cordell, William Campbell and the Little River Band. And that’s just half of the first hour!
Between 9 and 10 o’clock it’s this week’s Chart from 1971. Number 1 is a reggae duet and we may end with a ‘fantastic’ song!
Join Darren Duckworth on this week’s Soul Shack. He’s covering for Paul Atkinson who is having a well-earned rest after the World Record Marathon Broadcast attempt. Darren will be playing a selection of classic Northern Soul artists from Dobie Gray, Chuck Wood, The Tams, The Four Tops, Holly St. James and Stevie Wonder…… plus many, many more!
Yep, you’ve read it correctly. What better way to spend a wet and windy Sunday afternoon – tune into the four hour Sunday Special Fox’s Den Show between noon – 4pm today. We’ve got 3 great acts in the studio playing live – Chris Cayzer, Indigo Heights and Karlos Senór, we’ll have The Weird Record of the Week and The Sheperd’s Suggestion from the Suggestive Shepherd but we won’t have Frothy Coffee. Cake, instead! Check us out on the webcam.
Vixen 101 thanks members of the cast of Annie from Beverley Musical Theatre who came to the studios for a special Saturday Theatre, as part of our world record bid. They are offering a pair of tickets to see the production which opens on Tuesday 15th May at Hull New Theatre and runs until the Saturday.
Smply tell us the venue will play host to the production of Annie. Send your entry and contact details to studio@vixen101.co.uk or text us, starting your message with Vixen, to 07766 404142, by next Saturday 5th May. Standard network message rates apply.
CONGRATULATIONS TO PAUL ATKINSON AND DAVE HENDERSON……..
They succeeded in achieving 55 hours in their bid towards beating the current World Record for the Longest Broadcast Radio Show Team of Two. However, due to total exhaustion, they decided to stop at 55 having broken the Vixen 101 record from May 2011, by TWO hours!
The Directors of Vixen Broadcasting Ltd would like to thank the GRI Group for their financial support as well as the many sponsors of the “Marathon Hours”, along with the various donors. Additionally, a big ‘thank you’ to the independent witnesses who have diligently kept watch over Paul and Dave through their 55 hours of continuous programme.