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Stand By Your Ham

Greg James heads deep into the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ archives to deliver a selection of prime audio, using stories of the week as his launch-pad, along with requests and challenges from listeners.

Greg James, host of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and self-confessed 'proud radio nerd', is renewing his Access All Areas pass to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Archives, to track down audio gems, using current stories as a launchpad, along with requests from listeners and overlooked anniversaries.

To mark 25 years since mega-blockbuster Titanic was released in cinemas, Greg looks back in the archives for the Oscar-winning superstar Kate Winslet. He finds her very first acting role aged just 15 in children's sci-fi drama Dark Season - which also happened to be the writing debut of Doctor Who's Russell T Davies...Greg talks to Russell about his memories of young Kate. The success of Titanic gave Kate her pick of TV appearances, so naturally she decided she wanted to appear on Ready Steady Cook alongside the inimitable Ainsley Harriott...what will he rustle up with a crab and an iceberg lettuce?

Greg turns the clock back 50 years to 1973, the year when Uri Geller became an instant radio and TV sensation, re-creating drawings sealed in envelopes, and affecting clocks, watches and cutlery, with appearances on the Dimbleby Talk-In, presented by David Dimbleby. Greg's finds includes letters from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ archives from listeners happily sharing the transformations they witnessed in their homes - including an irate couple whose electric clock stopped at 11.05pm during the Dimbleby show. They demanded compensation, assuring the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 'we are not cranks'. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ lawyers soon became involved.

And after Greg offered a Meet and Greet with his dog Barney as a prize during Radio 1's Jan Slam giveaway month (other prizes included FA Cup final and Glastonbury tickets), he takes a look at other unexpected prizes across the decades. Gammon, anyone?

Producer Tim Bano

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28 minutes

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Thu 27 Jul 2023 23:30

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