News - June 22nd 2024
The funeral of
Lillemor McDonald
was held at Hutcliffe Wood Cemetary
on 1st July 2024.
Despite the sad occasion, some of the
original "Hartshead" team were there to
show their respect for a lovely lady.
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James
Roberson: Folks - I hear from Glynis Philliskirk via Gerry Kersey that
Lillemor MacDonald sadly died this morning….?????? RIP to a legendary
lady…?
Mowith: Such sad news ??
Damian Ho S B B Johnson: So sad. What an amazing woman. Thanks for
passing on James. RIP Lillemor
Karen Jane Brophy: Terribly terribly sad news ??loved her to bits x
Alan Biggs: What a lovely, classy lady. A great support to Bill around
the station, Lillemor befriended everyone she met. Very sad to hear
about her passing. Thoughts with Neil & all the family.
Cindy Kent: Oh - sorry to hear. May she rest in peace.
Lindsay Reid: Very sad news.
Darryl Adams: Ditto. R.I.P.
Carole Reid: So sorry not to be seeing Lillemor again. She
was a great friend to me whilst I worked for Bill. A wonderful woman.
Peter McNerny: Very sad.Thoughts with the family. She was the epitome of
grace and elegance. RIP Lillemor.
Stuart Linnell: Such sad news. Bill & Lillemor were both such lovely
people and provided huge support and encouragement to all of us in those
distant days of the start of Radio Hallam in 1974.
Nigel Dean: Very sad. A lovely lady. Deepest sympathy to Neil & the
family.
Hallam Memories
Latest Update - Summer 2024
In
October 2024, it will be the 50th anniversary of the launch of the
original Radio Hallam (Hartshead)
To
that end, a get together for those who worked for Radio Hallam between
1974 and 1991 or were closely associated with it,
is being arranged in Sheffield for September 30th. Many of those
eligible to attend should have received an email invitation.
Check
your emails for an invite and if you can't find it - send an email to radiohallam@outlook.com
and ask for yours!
A very old list of email addresses was used for sending the invites so
don't be offended if you didn't get one!
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We are sorry to relate that in August
2022 we lost another of the original "Hartshead" stalwarts - Johnny Moran
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Johnny in Radio Hallam "Studio B"
Johnny
began his career on Australian radio before joining Radio
Luxembourg in 1964. He worked there for two
years until moving to the UK in 1966. While on Radio Luxembourg, he was
noticed by Melody
Maker's The Raver column, which in 1964 dubbed him (perhaps
because of his Australian origins) "the
second Alan
Freeman"
He
began his BBC career in 1967, appearing on various Light Programme pop
shows. When Radio
1 launched, he became the regular presenter of
'Scene & Heard', a weekly magazine programme about new sounds, pop
news, views and interviews, which was broadcast on Saturdays or Sundays
from 1967 to 1973. After leaving Radio 1, in 1974 he became a presenter
at Sheffield’s
Radio Hallam and remained there for over 10 years.
Nowadays,
Johnny Moran seems to be one of the more obscure names from the early
years of Radio
1 but in the early years of Top
Gear, Moran’s Scene
and Heard was one of the few Radio 1 programmes
which John Peel recommended to his listeners, often at the end of the
show.
In
1970, when Peel took a month’s summer holiday, Johnny Moran hosted a
show in the Top
Gear slot called First
Gear, which concentrated on “pre-Beatles pop
music”. Peel appreciated the show and on his return from holiday,
praised Moran for his efforts, which led to a regular oldies show, All
Our Yesterplays, which Johnny Moran presented on Radio 1 on Sunday
afternoons in 1970-71. A piece on the show in Melody
Maker in February 1971 described it as "one
of the most popular pop shows on radio" which "gets
a huge postbag from a large listening audience" On the 4 October
1970 All
Our Yesterplays, Moran dedicated a record to Peel after the two
DJs had played in a Radio 1 football team on the previous day (and lost
6-1 to a London University team).
First
Gear was produced by John
Walters, who had gained his first experience on Radio I working on Scene
and Heard and was the show's main producer from
late 1971 to the end of 1972. Other producers who worked on Johnny
Moran's shows included Bernie
Andrews and Jeff
Griffin, who both worked with Peel. (In the piece on All
Our Yesterplays mentioned above, Moran told Melody
Maker that Bernie Andrews was "invaluable
in compiling the programme as many of the records are from his own
personal collection"[4]) Scene
And Heard's magazine format was adopted by later Radio 1 shows
like Rockspeak (produced
by Walters and broadcast in the Sounds
Of The Seventies Friday night slot from late
1973 until SOTS ended in 1975), Peel's Rock
Week and Walters’
Weekly. Johnny Moran was persuaded to move to Radio Hallam when
it began broadcasting in 1974 by the Sheffield station's programme
director, Peel's former Radio
London and Radio 1 colleague Keith
Skues.
Johnny's
funeral was held at 3:15pm on Wednesday September 7th 2022 at
Hutcliffe Wood Crematorium, Periwood Ln, Beauchief,
Sheffield S8 0HP
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As you may know, Bill MacDonald, our former Managing Director,
died on 1st May 2022 - aged 95.
Whilst it was a sad day at his funeral, we also had the chance to meet
up with old friends, many from the "Hartshead" days.
The photo below has many old friends we met up with at the subsequent
wake.
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Our thoughts go out to Lillemore and the family.
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(before Radio Hallam went 24 hours, overnight "library" music and
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the carts used from time to time was this interesting "History Of Radio"
originally made by Steve England and James Whiteley when at Piccadilly
Radio in Manchester) (added 3rd October 2021)
Then............
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........And at the 40th Anniversary.....
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