Listen Again

 

This page collects some of the audio links elsewhere on the site, and is arranged in chronological order. Click to listen.

1981

Test transmissions with Dave Glass doing the formal announcement, October 1981

Dave Cash opens the station just before 6 a.m. on Tuesday 27 October 1981

Are we a country station? Radio West wishes everybody a happy new yee-haar, for 1982

1982

The station linked up with WRKO in Boston for a week at Easter 1982. Here’s Trevor Fry’s take

Dave Glass talks about silly things Radio West did in Summer 1982

Johnnie Walker joins the station. Here he is presenting a local chart on a Saturday morning

1983

Dave Cash signs off for the last time, on Sunday 30 January 1983

A new jingle package arrives from TM Century

Who’s this new DJ, then? Fear? Paul joins the station in Summer 1983

Johnnie Walker leaves to join Wiltshire Radio. Here’s a tribute from a street musician, on Friday 30 September 1983

1984

David Arnold creates the final sound of the station. Here’s Paul Phear using the news jingle on a Sunday afternoon in March 1984

Radio West went back into the night in September 1984. Here’s a clip from Andy Westgate’s after-midnight hour

 1985

Too much fun to last! Here’s what’s coming on GWR...

Tom Clapton leaves the station, and sadly radio, on Saturday 3 August 1985

In the final weeks, several Wiltshire Radio presenters were heard on the station. Here’s Dave Barrett on the Late Show

Mark Seaman brings all the fun to an end, Sunday 8 September 1985