S1E53: Bob Harris
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rockonteurs, Gary and Guy chat to a titan of music broadcasting, Bob Harris.
It’s a fascinating discussion on his remarkable career in radio and TV that takes us from being a John Peel protégé to Radio 1, from his love of country music to The Old Grey Whistle Test and the eclectic artists that show beamed into our lives in the 70’s.
Bob is a natural storyteller and this episode features encounters with Elton John, John Lennon, The Eagles and even a life or death moment as he get attacked by some punks back in the day.
The Old Grey Whistle Test is 50 years old this week, so there is no guest better than Whispering Bob. Produced by Ben Jones for Gimme Sugar Productions.
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| 0:30.0 | Hi Guy. |
| 0:33.2 | Hello, Gary. |
| 0:34.3 | Oh, yes, we're whispering this week. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, whispering Gary Kemp. |
| 0:40.1 | You're whispering Guy Pratt, I guess. |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah. Yeah. you're whispering Guy Pratt I guess. |
| 0:48.0 | I just had a whisper actually. It was delicious. I was just trying to get that intimacy that this man had, you know, growing up, that was the key, wasn't it? He was yeah, so completely different to every other broadcaster as well. |
| 0:58.0 | Because the whole thing that we were used to, oh, there, yeah, yeah. It was like, you know, when you got in trouble at school |
| 1:04.0 | and the geography teacher said, come and see me, |
| 1:06.0 | and you'd go in and see him, |
| 1:07.0 | but he was a really just a really nice guy, |
| 1:10.0 | and he understood you, |
| 1:11.0 | yeah, understood the issues you were |
| 1:12.8 | were dealing with. |
| 1:13.8 | And you thought, I've got a connection somehow |
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