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Jan 04

Chat's the way to mark anniversary

Archived interviews with music legends including Madonna, John Lennon and Eric Clapton will be dusted off to help celebrate Radio Forth's 30th anniversary.
Bosses at the city-based broadcaster are planning to raid their vaults and showcase exclusive chats with some of the biggest names in show business.
Rod Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne, Sir Mick Jagger, Joan Collins and Liza Minnelli are some of the stars to have appeared on Radio Forth since it began broadcasting in January 1975. Station chiefs today unveiled plans to open the archives for the first time since the interviews were originally broadcast.
Among the station's other memorable guests are Billy Connolly, Sir Cliff Richard, Jon Bon Jovi, Kylie Minogue and Sir Paul McCartney.
Forth - which covers the whole of east-central Scotland - says it has been working for months to produce special features, programmes and promotions for the weeks leading up to the actual anniversary on January 22.
As well as the interviews, the station is to re-live the way it covered major news and sporting events over the last 30 years.
Former presenters such as Jay Crawford, Bill Barclay, Tom Steele and Alison Craig will be returning to the airwaves for guest appearances.
Steve Hamilton, the station's first on-air presenter, and Richard Findlay, the original programme controller, whose voice was the first to be heard on Forth, will also make comebacks.
Mr Findlay went on to head up Forth's parent company Scottish Radio Holdings.
Adam Findlay, managing director of Radio Forth, said: "There is no doubt at all that it is a major achievement for Radio Forth to hit this milestone.
"Forth was one of the first commercial radio stations to be launched in the UK and there are very few that are still going strong.
"We want to revisit a lot of the interviews Forth has carried out with celebrities over the years, as well as getting some of our best-known characters and personalities back on air.
"It's been great fun going back over the last 30 years and it's been a great project for everyone to get their teeth into."
The station has been divided between the FM and AM frequencies - now known as Forth2 and Forth One - since 1990.
It will also offer listeners the chance to play their own part in the celebrations by sharing their special memories of Forth on air. Major cash giveaways are also planned.
Bosses at the station - which has been based in Forth Street since its launch - are also planning to throw a major party for its 90-strong workforce.
Forth was launched with just GBP300,000 being spent to put the station together, including its newsreaders, DJs, administration staff and technicians.
A spokeswoman for Forth added: "While our researchers are piecing together the interviews and archives the one important piece of the Forth's history which is still missing is the memories of people living in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
"We're appealing for people to come forward with their memories of Forth from the past 30 years which will become a special part of the celebration programmes."
source : scotsman.com

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