Toast - Our Price Records

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Our Price Records was one of Britain's biggest music retailers offering cut-price albums at over 300 local high street stores. So, why did the chain disappear even before the internet transformed the music industry?

The BBC Business journalist, Sean Farrington, and the entrepreneur, Sam White, examine the retailer's fortunes.

How did it manage to become so successful? And why did it end up 'toast'?

The pair are joined by expert guests including:

-Neil Boote - former commercial director at Virgin Our Price -Phil Cokell - former marketing director at Chrysalis Records -Alison Warner who worked at Our Price Records in the 1980s

Produced by Jon Douglas. Toast is a BBC Audio North production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

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Feel free to suggest topics which could be covered in future episodes.

Sliced Bread returns for a new batch of investigations in December, where Greg Foot investigates so-called wonder products to find out whether they really are the best thing since sliced bread. In the meantime, Toast is available in the Sliced Bread feed on BBC Sounds

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
0:03.0	Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.
0:06.7	We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July
0:09.0	for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.
0:12.8	We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,
0:15.3	including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,
0:18.4	and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder.
0:23.2	You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, and the best part is free.
0:28.0	To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires.org-slash fringe.
0:34.2	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:40.2	You're about to listen to the latest series of Toast.
0:43.9	Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
0:50.7	But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episode seven days earlier than anywhere else, first on BBC Sounds.
0:57.9	Hello and welcome to the BBC Radio 4 series Toast, where we look at incredible business ideas that offered a lot to customers, but still somehow, ended up Toast.
1:03.8	I'm Sean Farrington, BBC Business Journalist with me as entrepreneur, resident business
1:08.9	guru, Sam White, Sam, hello. Hello, lovely. How are you?
1:12.8	I am very well. If you're new to toast, the deal is we keep Sam in the dark about what's coming.
1:18.7	All her reactions are off the cuff, no research done before, but at the end of it all,
1:22.5	she needs to give her professional opinion on why this particular business disappeared from our high streets.
1:27.8	Let's get cracking.
1:30.6	There was a time when almost every major town or city in the UK would have a branch of this particular business.
1:37.4	It was a cut price music pioneer.
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