26 December 1983

## Show

**Name**: Janice Long (Bank Holiday stand-in)

**Station**: BBC Radio 1

**Date**: Monday 26 December 1983, 4.00 pm[1]

**Source**: BBC Index & audio files

## Programme notes

* Boxing Day, live show.
* JL talks about Christmas Day, spent the morning in London, did TOTP then up to Liverpool for family and presents then returned to London today for this show. Later reveals she flew because there were no trains.
* Every other record an 'oldie' (and favourite)
* End of show goes back to Heathrow to fly to Liverpool for 'filming for the rest of this week'

## Tracklisting

* Tears For Fears - Mad World
* Ian Dury - Really Glad You Came
* T. Rex - Hot Love

(pulls out box of gadgets, mentions secretary Margaret)

* Icicle Works - Love Is a Wonderful Colour ("*working.. preparing album in Wales*")
* The Jam - That's Entertainment

(announces West Brom 1 - Liverpool 2 (joyously) )

* Aswad - Roots Rockin' (session)
* Mott The Hoople - All the Young Dudes ("*a real classic*")

Andy Peebles trailer for programme on 27/12/83, 12:00 noon

* Simple Minds - Waterfront ("*one of the best gigs I've ever seen..last Monday*.." .."*look forward to the album*")

I used to be an air hostess.. caught the plane from Manchester .. "*I was terrified..I'm the world worst flyer!*"

* Survivor - Eye of the Tiger ("*the movie's on the telly tonight*")
* Dalek I Love You - Holiday in Disneyland (session) (mentions album *Kumpas*)

more football scores from Division One

* Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive (cross-fades into..)
* Gloria Gaynor - I Am What I Am

Final scores - Liverpool now have 3 point lead at the top

* China Crisis - African & White

Yorkshire derby result: Huddersfield 2 - Leeds 1, "*well done Huddersfield!*"

* The Pretenders - 2,000 Miles ("*one of the better Christmas singles*")

Exactly 5 o'clock. Announces next programmes *Steve Wright's Films*, and Rhythm Pals special show

* Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno
* The Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now (cross-fades into..)
* Darryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater
* The Cocteau Twins - From the Flagstones (JP session, 04-10-83)
* Rod Stewart - Maggie May (from LP, *Every Picture*...) ("*the guy who bought me that album borrowed it in 1976 and still hasn't given it back*")
* Michael Jackson - Thriller
* Roxy Music - Dance Away
* Kool & the Gang - Straight Ahead

5.30 pm I'll be back in 5 mins. News, Ian Parkinson.
end Pt.1 on Mixcloud
Pt. 2
"I don't believe it" (laughing)

* The Police - Roxanne
* Status Quo - Marguerita Time (JL had met the group on TOTP a few weeks ago)
* Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street ("*reminds me of when I first joined the BBC and came down to London on a training cours*e")

Talks about TOTP. Fancy dress with M. Smith on yesterday's show.

* UB40 - Many Rivers to Cross
* Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
* Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together (speculates the follow-up is going to be a cover of Bowie's 1984)
* Bill Haley and His Comets - See You Later Alligator
* Steve Gibbons Band - Tulane
* The Waterboys - December

Trailer for Steve Wright's Films of the Year (6.30 pm)

* Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
* Culture Club - Victims
* Madness - One Step Beyond
* Malcolm McClaren - Duck for the Oyster (LP Duck Rock)
* Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk

Plug for New Year's Eve show with Liverpool bands dropping in, Pete Wylie, It's Immaterial, Lotus Eaters *Janice Long Show Liverpool Special*.

* ABC - All of My Heart

"*See y'all soon, have a nice day*"

News.

## File

Name
1. Janice Long, Boxing day 1983 part 1
2. Janice Long, Boxing day 1983 part 2

Duration
1. 01:27:41
2. 00:51:38

Other
* Thanks to iandarnold

Available
1. Pt.1
2. Pt.2