Now then, welcome to your Friday bonus ball of the rest of the latest podcast. This is the

civilian here, Mr Gordon Smart and I am bringing the news of more Mirandais podcast. This is the civilian here, Mr Gordon Smart,

and I am bringing you news of more Miranda Sawyer. For those of you who sent lovely messages

about the main episode in the week, thank you very much. She's fascinated, isn't she? So many

stories. She was there, interviewed the greats, and she came away with the T-shirt to prove it.

Right, hope you enjoy this. This is more from Miranda Sawyer, who's got a

brilliant new book out. Please check it out. Uncommon people, 20 songs to take you through the 90s.

And there's a little bit of Maltese eyes in here as well. So, enjoy Miranda, and enjoy the bonus bar.

I loved listening to the Radio One Breakfast Show because I felt like Chris Evans would just roll out the pub.

You know, whoever it was, would roll into his show and then TFI Friday would be on and then they'd roll that into Saturday.

And I just thought, I can't wait to get down there and be part of this.

How do you get involved?

And you were.

You were there.

Yeah, it's very lucky.

I mean, I do think it was a bit right time, right place. You don't know, you know. And also, you don't know at the time, like, what I hadn't understood at the time. And I only understood when I was thinking about the book, because I was trying to think of, I suppose, a bit wider, is that that was actually a really amazing time for British music. That's true. But also really, you know, there was money in music, which, you know, was through CDs and all that kind of stuff.

There was a really, really thriving music press.

Which is like, you know, that is not the case now, obviously.

But it was really thriving.

Because it was thriving, it's a lot of rivalry.

There was lots of things like that.

There were people who were prepared to give people a chance.

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