It was 40 years ago today! This is the interview (?!) section of the 'Pop Forum' programme on the Birmingham Hospital Broadcasting Network (BHBN) with Les Ross on April 26, 1975. It was recorded a couple of days before at the BBC's Pebble Mill studios (hence my slip about it being "evening") but broadcast on the hospital (landline only) service 11-noon on the Saturday morning. I was 17 then (pictured about that time in the main BHBN studio) and, erm, just developing my radio interviewing technique!
Aside from the audio narcissism (!) and thinking how amazed we'd have been to be told back in '75 that 40 years later this output would be available on a click on a portable phone to a potential worldwide audience, I find it fascinating to hear Les's thoughts on the future of radio - which was, in the main, local, he thought, apart from Radio 4 which "ought go on forever". Many of these debates about the importance of liveness and localism carry on today!