Annie Nightingale the early 1980s she presented a Friday night show and the non-music-based "Radio 1 Mailbag" and "Talkabout". In 1978, Nightingale became the main presenter of "The Old Grey Whistle Test" on BBC2 as a replacement for long-time host Bob Harris. During her tenure, the show moved away from its traditional bias under Harris towards country music, blues rock and progressive rock and embraced popular modern styles such as punk rock and new wave. She left the series in 1982. She had begun "The Sunday Request Show" in September 1975, originally on Sunday afternoons until the end of 1979. It began
Sounds of the Seventies on Sunday 5 April 2009, broadcasting on BBC Radio 2. It runs from 3pm-5pm, and is hosted by former Radio Caroline DJ Johnnie Walker. There was also a BBC2 TV series called "Sounds of the 70s" which compiled 1970s performances from the BBC's music archives, taken from programmes such as "Top of the Pops" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". This was first shown in 1993, and was rerun on BBC Four in the 2000s. Sounds of the Seventies Sounds of the Seventies was a BBC radio programme broadcast on weekdays, initially 18:00–19:00, subsequently 22:00–00:00, on Radio One during the