Here are just some of the radio programmes I've presented on CUR
Broadcast late in 1999, the title was in response to the rest of the world's obsession with the impending new millenium, and also an excuse to play some of the best music of the last millenium. Each programme has two select years to guess and a chance to play 'Cover Story'. In this competition, I took a song and its more recent cover version, mixed the two together and got people to e-mail me both artists. All this and I promised not to play the same tune twice all term - seemingly easy, you'll be surprised how much repetition there is on the average radio station.
Listen to some of the trailers:
This is possibly the most unusual title I've ever given a radio show, and stems from my being station engineer at CUR, together with some random anecdote from the Freshers' Fair involving me chasing a student film crew with a radio mic while they chased a BBC film crew who were trying to find... the student radio lot... or something like that!
First broadcast in early 200, I adopted my preferred music format - fairly eclectic, once described as '80's child meets indie kid'! The competition was 'telling stories' where the challenge was open to listeners to create a story using only the lyrics of songs, appended each week. The prize for the best entry each week was 'the pint of your choice in the bar of your choice' There was also a featured album every week, and another competition 'Simon Mayo He's Our Hero'!
As a one-off special I was joined by Jo Astrup who helped co-present and enthused about the 80s, as well as helping me give away an entire crate of beer.
The show returned in Lent term, now with a co-presenter (Andrew Murphy) and a new competition. 'Powertools for Prizes' is, somewhat surprizingly, one of the more popular radio competitions I've run. A slight variant on guessing the noise (in this case, of a powertool), a weekly pint prize was on offer as well as a larger series-wide prize. The gambling element was provided by the opportunity to guess the colour or manufacturer of the powertools... whereupon a right answer wins five points and a wrong answer looses five. Kirstin eventually won the series amidst allegations of collusion, which wasn't expressly forbidden in the rules.
Having been inaccurately billed as 'Live from the ADC Theatre' on the CUR website, the show claimed to be broadcasting from a random location in the theatre each week. In the final week I actually made my contributions to the programme live from the ADC whilst preparing for the Footlights Tour show, while Andrew Murphy drove the mixing desk back at the studio.
The show returned again when I moved back to Cambridge in spring 2001, as did the 'Cover Story' competition.
This was a music review programme that went out each Monday. The aim was to review the week's new releases on the day they first became available in the shops (I'm bored of stations that play music months before it is released). There were many different reviewers over the course of the term this programme ran for.
Listen to the trailer
I spent a very long time cataloguing CUR's seven inch singles collection, and discovered a lot of good music on the way. It seemed a shame to just put it all back on the shelves, so I presented a special 3 hour programme played entirely from vinyl, followed by 2 hours of indie from my own collection.
Thanks to Sam Holloway for the trailer.
I did a sponsored 24-hour broadcast to kick off Mayweek 2000. I managed to stay awake for all 24 hours, played my way through most of the 600 CDs I brought along and finished up in time for the start of the CUR garden party. Thanks to Jo for the food, Paul, Louise, Tim, Andy, Phil, Max, Richard and Sam for guesting, and thanks to all who sponsored me.
©Eddy Langley - This page last updated 31 July 2001