The Radio Game

I love a quiz. So a quiz about radio, well that’s just up my street.  So how about trying this one: The Radio Game.

There’s a catch mind, it was broadcast back in 1982 for the BBC’s 60^th anniversary so some of the questions … well, let’s just say you’ll need a good knowledge of wartime and post-war radio. 

Question master Barry Took was asking listeners to write in with their 60 answers. Of course that wouldn’t work these days, everyone would be straight onto the internet.  No problem in 1982 of course, so it was a question of memory, asking around or popping down to your local library.

Listen to The Radio Game and see how many questions you can get right WITHOUT resorting to Google, Wikipedia  or even the reference books on your shelf.  If you’re really keen please email me your answers and I’ll give you a mention on the blog. Sorry no prizes are on offer, just the smug satisfaction that you know your stuff.

I’ll post the answers, as revealed by Barry in The Radio Game: All The Answers, on this blog on Monday 12 November in the week of the BBC’s 90^th anniversary. So get your thinking caps on.

The Radio Game was  broadcast on Radio 4 on Sunday  3 October 1982.

The Radio Times printed a list of notes to act as prompts to the questions, I’ve reproduced them below:  

1 Now and when

2 Favourite of the family

3 O Captain, My Captain

4 The Doctor’s dilemma

5 The young Archers

6 Honeymooners

7 Royal relations

8 Waiting for His Worship

9 Yelp!

10 Toyshop

11 On with the show

12 Knock, knock, who’s there

13 Initial difficulties

14 Mopping up

15 Old shaver

16 Letter writer

17 The other Gracie Fields

18 On the beach

19 At the front

20 On the balcony

21 Not so quick

22 Talking sport

23 Out and in

24 Back to square one

25 Horse sense

26 Double act

27 Poor Denis

28 How are you?

29 Alternative medicine

30 Green fingers

31 More green fingers

32 Time check

33 Fractured French

34 Cheers!

35 Here is the news

36 Even more news

37 Post-war depression

38 Bright interval

39 Spot the Goon

40 More or less Mozart

41 All change

42 Snap, crackle, pop

43 Houseperson’s choice

44 Gramophone-record rider

45 He sings as well

46 Introducing …

47 Space Invaders

48 Hitch-Hikers

49 Playing Hamlet 1

50 Playing Hamlet 2

51 Playing Hamlet 3

52 Land of our fathers

53 Noises on

54 Fall off

55 Move on

56 Noises off

57 Singing the Blue

58 One of the gang

59 Castaway

60 Go on, try!