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Here's your chance to win a copy of Phil Daniels' Class Actor, the hot-off-the-press autobiography written by the ace-face from Quadrophenia and, more recently, Eastenders.

All you have to do to win this wonderful book (which I'm in, by the way) is answer the following 10 questions correctly and if you're first into the inbox with the right stuff, the cracking tome is yours.

1. What's Duran Duran singer Simon Lebon's supermodel wife's first name?

2. What colour was Prince's little car and what make was it?

3. In the movie A Hard Day's Night, who played Paul McCartney's granddad?

4. Complete the following Vampire Weekend song title - Cape Cod... what?

5. The Shangri-Las sang about The Leader Of The... what?

6. With which Smiths song did Sandie Shaw have a hit single?

7. Neil Young is the uncle of AC/DC's Angus Young - true or false?

8. Complete the following Pulp album title - This Is ... what?

9. Name the song The Killers recorded with Lou Reed.

10. What's the commonly used medical term for the inability to remember?

Send your entry to steve_sutherland@ipcmedia.com or studio@northcotswoldonline.com and don't forget that the Theme Time Memories Show repeats this Friday evening at 6.30 and will be on our fab Listen Again facility real soon.

Thanks for listening

Steve

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Here's the play list from Sunday's Theme Time Show featuring songs all about MEMORIES:

The Carpenters: Yesterday Once More

Duran Duran: Careless Memories

Pink Floyd: Remember A Day

The Go-Betweens: Cattle & Cane

Johnny Thunders: You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory

The Boo Radleys: The White Noise Revisited

Prince: When You Were Mine

 Scarlet Fantastic: No Memory

The Beatles: Things We Said Today

Devendra Banhart: Goin' Back

Ritchie Havens: Going Back To My Roots

Vampire Weekend: Horchata

The Shangri-Las: Remember (Walking In The Sand)

Groove Armada: Remember

The Rolling Stones: Memory Motel

Jeff Buckley: Forget Her

Sandie Shaw: (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me

The Horrors: Do You Remember?

John Leyton: Johnny Remember Me

Roy Harper: Forget Me Not

Pulp: Do You Remember The First Time?

The Killers: When You Were Young

For your chance to win a copy of Phil Daniels' autobiography, Class Actor, go to the WIN PHIL DANIELS blog.

Oh, and don't forget the Theme Time Memories Show repeats this Friday evening at 6.30 and will be on our Listen Again facility soon.

Thanks for listening

Steve

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on this weeks programme we will be featuring the album that I played a track from a couple of weeks ago , yes I said album because it will be a vinyl album that I found in my cupboard a few weeks ago and have been dying to play tracks from it on the show every since . The Outlaws features Waylon Jennings , Willie Nelson , Jessie Colter and Tompall Glaser .Phew what a lineup !

Easy listening around 1.00pm will feature our old friend 83 years old Johnny Larkin  from the north east who I understand from his good friend Sylvia Bowron who has been in touch with me that he is not well at present following a fall . Get well soon Johnny ! Plus tracks from Patricia Conroy , Glen Campbell and Bobby Gentry , and Keith Urban .

Plus at around 1.30pm the classic segment will again feature the indomitable  Glen Campbell , soon to be on tour in the UK , plus Jerry Reed ,The Everley bros , and Flatts and Scruggs .

Hope you can join us for what could be a classic and remember "Keep it Country Cotswold Country "

all the best John Bowlt

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Here's a quick heads up about Sunday's Theme Time Show which will feature songs all about MEMORIES.

During the show you will encounter:

 A song about reincarnation

A song about growing up on a remote ranch in the Australian outback

A song that was used to audition new lead guitarists 

A song about a drink bringing back warm memories

A song about getting all misty-eyed and nostalgic listening to the radio

A song about a fretful ghost reminding a fellow of his lost love

Plus loads more ace songs which dwell upon the past.

The Theme Time Memories Show goes out on Sunday afternoon at 5.30. Don't forget to join us!

Thanks for listening

Steve

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Here's your chance to win a copy of Somewhere Back In Time, The Best Of Iron Maiden 1980-1989, a single CD featuring cracking stuff like Children Of The Damned, The Number Of The Beast, Run To The Hills and Phantom Of The Opera (Live).

All you have to do to win this headbanging treat is answer the following 10 questions correctly and if you're first into the inbox with the right dandruff, the CD's yours.

Heads down, no nonsense! Here goes:

1. What was Ride's second album called?

2. With which Cure song did Dinosaur Jr have an indie hit?

3. On Led Zeppelin IV, Robert Plant shares vocal duties with another singer on one track. Who was the singer and what was the song?

4. Who was the nightclub singing alter ego of New York Doll David Johansen?

5. Complete the title of the following Walker Brothers hit -  Our Ship Is... what?

6. Donovan provided the lyric "sea of green" to which Beatles song?

7. Complete the title of the following Jimmy Webb song - By The Time I Get To... where?

8. What was M.I.A.'s debut album called?

9. Paul McCartney's brother was in a band that had a hit single with a lady's name and a colour in the title. What was the band called and what was the song?

10. Which famous Anglo-French plane with a droopy nose, made its maiden voyage in 1969 and was retired in 2003?

Send your entry to steve_sutherland@ipcmedia.com or studio@northcotswoldonline.com and the best of bloomin' British to one and all.

Oh, and don't forget the Theme Time Flying Show repeats this Friday evening at 6.30 and will be on the Listen Again facility soon.

Thanks for listening and chocs away!

Steve

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Here's the play list from Sunday's Theme Time Show which featured songs all about FLYING:

Pentangle: Light Flight

Hall & Oates: Las Vegas Turnaround (The Stewardess Song)

Tegan & Sara: Hop A Plane

Simon Dupree & The Big Siound: Kites

Ride: Vapour Trail

Frank Sinatra: Come Fly With Me

J Mascis: Leavin' On A Jet Plane

Led Zeppelin: Going To California

Owl City: Fireflies

The Rolling Stones: Who's Driving Your Plane?

New York Dolls: Jetboy

Death In Vegas: Flying

Scott Walker: Plastic Palace People

Arlo Guthrie: Coming Into Los Angeles

The Strawbs: Flight

Donovan: The Fat Angel

The 5th Dimension: Up, Up & Away

The Byrds: Eight Miles High

M.I.A.: Paper Planes

The Faces: Flying

Nazareth: This Flight Tonight

Paul McCartney & Wings: Jet

For your chance to win a copy of Somewhere Back In Time, The Best Of Iron Maiden 1980-1989 go to the WIN IRON MAIDEN blog.

Don't forget the Theme Time Flying Show repeats this Friday evening at 6.30 and will be on the Listen Again facility soon.

Thanks for listening

Steve

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this week we are featuring an album from an artist not too well known in the Uk .

The artist is called Kimber Clayton and the album "Good girls love bad boys "

has been in my collection since 1998 and I have played the title track a number of times on my programmes over the years since but have not really been right through the album and I thought this week I would do so and found some great tracks . This week we are therefore featuring the album as our album of the week and will playing ,if we can fit them in, most of the tracks from the album.

With the easy listening segment at around 1.00pm featuring 2 tracks from the album plus Billy ray Cyrus ( Miley 's father ) and John Anderson

and the classics this week featuring Waylon Jennings ,Linda Rondstat ,John Denver, and Carlene Carter at 1.30pm

should be a great show

hope you can join us at 12.00pm on NCCR Cotswold Country

all the best John Bowlt

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Here's a heads-up about Sunday's Theme Time Show which will feature songs all about FLYING.

During the show you will encounter:

 A song by a band and a singer that didn't exist

A song written as the theme tune to the first ever drama shown in colour on BBC1

A song which may or may not have been written about the singer's pet Labrador

A song banned by the radio for being about drugs when it was really about flying across the Atlantic to London

Another song about flying across the Atlantic in the opposite direction hoping customs don't search your suitcase cos it's full of illegal stuff

A song about being in love with an air stewardess and what a drag it is she's away so often

Two songs about balloons...

Plus loads more ace tunes of the aeronautical persuasion.

Lift off is at 5.30 on Sunday afternoon so why not buckle up and enjoy the ride?

Thanks for listening

Steve

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Here's your chance to win a copy of the new double CD The Who, Greatest Hits & More, which features all the band's hit singles plus 16 live tracks as well!

All you have to do is answer the following 10 questions correctly and if you're first into the inbox with the right stuff, the CD's yours!

 Let's go:

1. Complete the following Joy Division song title - Love Will... what?

2. What was the title of the song George Harrison wrote about a very sad instrument?

3. What did Bad Company feel like doing?

4. What was the name of the band Wayne Hussey formed when he quit The Sisters Of Mercy?

5. What was the title of the duet Kylie Minogue recorded with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds?

6. What was Daft Punk's debut album called?

7. Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim was once a member of what famous band from Hull?

8. Which founder member of The Specials currently refuses to join their reunion?

9. With whom did Dizzee Rascal collaborate for his hit single Holiday?

10. Which Scottish band are named after a movie creature which gets out of hand if you feed it after midnight or it gets wet?

Send your entry to steve_sutherland@ipcmedia.com or studio@northcotswoldonline.com and don't forget the Theme Time Losing Control show repeats this Friday evening at 6.30 and will be on the Listen Again facility soon.

Thanks for listening

Steve

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Here's the play list from Sunday's Theme Time Show which featured songs all about LOSING CONTROL:

The Wonder Stuff: Give Give Give Me More More More

Depeche Mode: Just Can't get Enough

The Troggs: I Can't Control Myself

The Selecter: Too Much Pressure

Groove Armada: Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control)

Joy Division: She's Lost Control

Little Anthony & The Imperials: Going Out Of My Head

The Beatles: It's All Too Much

The Mighty Lemondrops: Too High

Bad Company: Can't Get Enough

Kylie Minogue: Can't Get You Out Of My Head

The Seeds: Pushin' Too Hard

The Jesus & Mary Chain: I Can't Get Enough

Daft Punk: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Fatboy Slim: Going Out Of My Head

The Streets: Too Much Brandy

The Specials: Too Much Too Young

AC/DC: Touch Too Much

Faithless: I Want More

Dizzee Rascal: Bonkers

Boston: More Than A Feeling

For your chance to win a copy of the new Who double CD, Greatest Hits & More, go to the WIN WHO blog.

Oh, and don't forget the Theme Time Losing Control show repeats this Friday evening at 6.30 and will be on the Listen Again facility soon.

Thanks for listening

Steve

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