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The Cartridge Years: October 1968, 1978 and 1988

Richard turns back the clock with the hits and local headlines from three Cartridge years: October 1968, 1978 and 1988.

This week Richard turns back the clock with the local headlines and a hand-picked selection of hits from October 1968, 1978 and 1988.
And in 鈥淭hree of the Kind鈥� he plays three versions of Roll of Beethoven.

He highlights some of the lighter stories of the week that you may have missed, reviews some of the recent surveys and showbiz titbits. And Lena Samuels reviews another DVD.

Richard Cartridge, Sunday afternoon from 2 - one of the South鈥檚 best kept secrets.

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Sun 11 Oct 2015 14:00
大象传媒 Radio Solent

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Music Played

  • Cartridge Years: October 1968

    • Tom Jones

      Help Yourself

  • Aretha Franklin

    I Say A Little Prayer

  • Mary Hopkin

    Those Were The Days

  • Gary Puckett & the Union Gap

    Lady Willpower

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    Dance To The Music

  • The Casuals

    Jesamine

  • Leapy Lee

    Little Arrows

  • The Beatles

    Hey Jude

  • Adele

    Rolling In The Deep

  • Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson

    I Know Him So Well

  • Three of a Kind: Roll Over Beethoven

    • Chuck Berry

      Roll Over Beethoven

  • Fat Larry鈥檚 Band

    Zoom

  • The Monkees

    Last Train To Clarksville

  • The Cartridge Years: October 1978

    • ABBA

      Summer Night City

  • Frankie Valli

    Grease

  • John Travolta & Olivia Newton鈥怞ohn

    Summer Nights

  • Exile

    Kiss You All Over

  • Dean Friedman

    Lucky Stars

  • The Three Degrees

    Giving Up Giving In

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Seet Talkin' Woman

  • Anita Baker

    Sweet Love

  • Jack Savoretti

    Back Where I Belong

  • Three of a Kind - Roll Over Beethoven

    • The Beatles

      Roll Over Beethoven

  • Carpenters

    There's A Kind Of Hush

  • Simply Red

    Holding Back The Years

  • The Cartridge Years: October 1988

    • Womack & Womack

      Teardrops

  • Erasure

    A Little Respect

  • The Hollies

    He Ain't Heavy, He's My brother

  • Bobby McFerrin

    Don't Worry Be Happy

  • Phil Collins

    A Groovy Kind Of Love

  • Yazz & The Plastic Population

    The Only Way Is Up

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

  • The Who

    Substitute

  • Three of a Kind - Roll Over Beethoven

    • Electric Light Orchestra

      Roll Over Beethoven

  • 10cc

    I'm Not In Love

October 1968

  • The Queen Elizabeth left Southampton for the last time & headed for New York where she was due to become a floating hotel... 聽She later caught fire in Hong Kong harbour.聽
  • Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis were married on the Greek island of Skorpios.
  • Olympic Games were on in Mexico.
  • Campaigning was ongoing in the United States Presidential elections.
  • The proposed National Engineering strike was postponed.
  • There was a memorial service for the late Princess Marina who had passed away in August from a brain tumour.
  • British Aircraft Corporation won a stake in building the new generation of communication satellites.
  • Robert Maxwell bid to take over the News of the World.
  • Comedian Bud Flanagan was buried in a simple service at Golders Green.
  • Oil tanker Sitakund ran aground and caught fire off Eastbourne.
  • Apollo 7 successfully returned to earth..
  • John Lennon & his girlfriend Yoko Ono were charged with possessing cannabis & obstructing the police.
  • The final stretch of the M1 motorway was opened in Yorkshire.
  • National Giro opened for business through the General Post Office.
  • The M1 motorway is completed when the final 35-mile section opens between Rotherham and Leeds.
  • A woman from Birmingham gives birth to the first recorded instance of live Sextuplets in the UK.
  • A civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, which includes several Stormont and British MPs, is batoned off the streets by the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
  • British racing drivers Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill and John Surtees take the first three places at the United States Grand Prix.
  • Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Olympics in Mexico City and win 5 gold, 5 silver and 3 bronze medals.

October 1978

  • Prime Minister Edward Heath used a visit to Southampton University to attack Mrs Thatcher and her Conservative opposition.
  • Destroyer HMS Coventry arrived in Portsmouth for the first time, ahead of being commissioned in November.
  • Ford workers were on strike in Eastleigh.
  • There was an engineering exhibition on the Isle of Wight.
  • Powerboat racer Tim Coleman abandoned his attempt to break his own speed record of 34.4 knots off Portland.聽
  • An appeal was launched in Gosport to save the submarine HMS Alliance from going to the breakers yard.
  • What was thought to be the world's finest toy car was made in Wareham.
  • The Typewriter museum opened in Bournemouth.
  • Banger racing championships were held in Eastleigh.
  • Spetisbury reservoir had to be drained so a Freisian cow could be rescued.
  • A unique collection of painting & models produced by Romsey schoolchildren was used to illustrate their town.聽
  • There are fears of violence at Parkhurst Prison as industrial action by prison officers went into it's 10th month.
  • A group of protestors tried to hold up Beaulieu Road pony sales in an attempt to save lives of large numbers of ponies who go to slaughterhouse.聽
  • Pop John Paul II was innaugurated at a mass in Rome. 聽
  • Jimmy Carter was US president.
  • The oil tanker Christos Bitas was scuppered in the Atlantic.
  • Britain's biggest oil refinery in Shetland started life.
  • Prince Charles was on a visit to Yugoslavia - his first visit to a communist country.
  • The England cricket team left for their tour of Australia.
  • Journalists at the Daily Telegraph returned to work after their strike.
  • A cull of Grey seals in the Orkney and Western Islands reduced after a public outcry.
  • The government announces plans for a new single exam to replace O Levels and CSEs.
  • A ceremony marked the completion of Liverpool Cathedral, for which the foundation stone was laid in 1904.
  • Four people died and four others are wounded in a shooting spree which began in a residential street in West Bromwich and ended at a petrol station some 20 miles away in Nuneaton.

October 1988

  • The ministry of Defence ruled out complete closure of the Portland as a Naval centre.
  • A replacement for Winchester's recreation centre was opened, two years after a fire destroyed the original building.
  • A section of a new crane which could increase business at Southampton Container Terminal was moved into position.
  • A nurse alleged to be involved in a plot to smuggle seven hundred thousand pounds worth of Cannabis into a forest in Hampshire was refused bail by magistrates in London.聽
  • This year's search for sailing talent reached its climax in the Solent with the final of the Times-James Capel Crewsearch Competition.
  • The Beaux Strategem was on at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton.
  • Hurricane Ruby hit the Phillipines.
  • Police in France were investigating the cause of a fire at a Paris cinema which was showing the controversial film 'The Last Temptation of Christ'.聽
  • Vauxhall launched the third generation of its popular Cavalier family saloon.
  • The House of Lords ruled that extracts of the banned book Spycatcher can be published in the media.
  • Jaguar unveiled its new Jaguar XJ220 supercar at the Motor Show. It is set go into production in 1990, costing 拢350,000 and being the world's fastest production car with a top speed of 220 mph.
  • Three IRA supporters are found guilty of conspiracy to murder in connection with a plot to kill Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Tom King.
  • British Rail announces a 21% rise in the cost of long distance season tickets.

Broadcast

  • Sun 11 Oct 2015 14:00
    大象传媒 Radio Solent