We’re All Alone – Boz Scaggs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-MsVZrTQEU 1976 We’re All Alone – Boz Scaggs Outside the rain begins And it may never end So cry no more On the shore a dream Will take us out to sea For ever more For ever more Close your eyes ami And you can be with me ‘Neath the waves Through the caves of…

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Oliver’s Army

“lower-class unemployed white people had lived for years in appalling slums without a breakdown of public order on anything like the present scale”. Oliver Letwin writing to Margaret Thatcher blocking aid to black communities in 1985 after the Broadwater Farm and Tottenham riots. “A riot is the language of the unheard” Martin Luther King. Perhaps…

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Dublin City FM 103.2

Another Xmas New Year’s and I’m on the radio. 7-9am Tune In http://tunein.com/radio/1032-Dublin-City-FM-s9123/

Only the strong survive

On May 18th 2015 it will be 30 years since my first radio show. Now I don’t have a date for when I first fell in love with radio but it preceded 1985 by a good bit. Thinking of those early days of radio I think of my record box – I didn’t have many…

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