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Thameside Radio Revisited

Thameside Radio Revisited

Thameside Radio 90.2 VHF on fmthen.com - Archive recordings from London's Thameside Radio

Jul 19, 2020

Mark takes over the show from Bob.

His music is less Middle of the Road, the studio is empyying leaving only Hilly and Mark there. He plays "All too Much" by Steve Hillage part of which was used in the Thameside Radio closedown when the station first launched.

There is a live link set up between the studio and the...


Jul 12, 2020

The other Thameside Radio DJs have gone to Harrow Hill for a picnic with the listeners and left Bob Edwards in the studio. This predates cellphones so he doesn't hear anything from them for a bit.

We do hear from the "tea girl" and the "record library girl". Bob tell us can see the hill from the studio in a tall...


Jul 5, 2020

More from the  mega broadcast from Harrow.
Paul James finishes 5 1/2 hours of programming with traditional local radio stuff like football news. We discover that QPR are playing on Astroturf - that hurt if you fell over. I do wonder if Thameside could have gone on to become something like Radio Jackie FM which is the...


There's more!

Jul 1, 2020

Being on lockdown has given me the chance to hunt out some more Thameside Radio 90.2 recordings, and I've also got tapes of the projects that the crew moved on to like Clockwork Wireless and Hillltop Radio. 

So if you are looking for a chance to indulge in some nostalgia - then check up every week on fmthen.com - there...