Playback Magazine April 2021 No 535
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David Tanner reads an obituary for great friend to Playback who passed away recently, BBC commentator Alastair Alexander.
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Alastair Alexander
Looking into our archives to pay tribute to Alastair Alexander we go back to 1982 when Playback produced a special World Cup tape and Alastair was interviewed by David Gilhooly.
Mary, who was Mary McConville when she previously worked with Playback, now lives in Dumfries and she compiled her experiences of Holidays and flying in this short article
From our archive we hear an interview with Willie Joss a great character in the early days of Radio, having taken part in The McFlannels as Uncle Martha, radios regular Saturday Night soap! As well as many other programmes as part of Children’s Hour. Iris Brown speaks to Willie
We end part one with a selection of Radio Signature tunes from the great days of Radio, it’s a quiz, how many can you recognise, Answers on Part two
Answers to quiz
Continuing our tribute to Alastair Alexander, Alastair Published a book in 2009 entitled Action Stations about submarines on the River Clyde, Peter spoke to Alastair at the book launch.
In 2005 David Tanner and Alastair Alexander visited the award winning museum at Scotland’s National Stadium,
From our archive, Hugh Gray talks to Ann Donaldson about the work of the Procurator Fiscal in Scotland