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
The Good Old Days (UK TV series) to survive complete. 63 of the programmes were broadcast on BBC Four between November 2015 and January 2018. On Friday 30 December 1983 a "Goodbye to the Good Old Days" was shown, a documentary celebrating the end of the 30-year run that year; Barry Cryer served as narrator for the documentary. The Good Old Days (UK TV series) The Good Old Days is a BBC television light entertainment programme produced by Barney Colehan which ran from 1953 to 1983. It was performed at the Leeds City Varieties and recreated an authentic atmosphere of the Victorian–Edwardian music hall with songs and