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Radio Nottingham celebrates its 40th birthday
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Nottingham is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a range of special programmes, features and guest appearances to mark the occasion.
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The station also scours its archives to remind listeners of the good, the bad and the downright difficult stories it has reported since it first hit the airwaves in 1968.
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A reminiscing Andy Whittaker reminds his listeners of the major stories from the past four decades. The breakfast show host recalls the feel good factor of the Seventies, when Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest swept all before them, picking up the European Cup in two consecutive years.
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For his decade-by-decade retrospective Andy revisits the Eighties miners' strike and the demise of the industry; the Nineties death of popular presenter Dennis McCarthy, whose funeral brought Nottingham city centre to a standstill; and in looking at the eight years of the new millennium he looks at the image of Nottingham and the city's future.
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But celebrating 40 years on the airwaves would be incomplete without a birthday cake and Radio Nottingham's roving reporter is distributing it as he drops in on those listeners who were born on the same day as the station.
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Nicola Bush is one such listener. Nicola became Miss 91Èȱ¬ Radio Nottingham when her parents won a competition to find people born on the same day as the station. As it has done in the past, Radio Nottingham makes a visit to find out how its "twin" is celebrating her 40th birthday.
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Those approaching the landmark age can also hear a top 40 countdown with a difference – a list of 40 things to do before you reach the age which some say is when life really begins.
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Old favourites including Graham Percy and Phil Bayles, the former sports journalist, can be heard reminiscing about their time at the station.
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Three original station assistants, Kit Ford, Gina Madgett and Dephine North, also take part in the regular "loose ladies" feature on Friday 1 February.
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"There's a lot going on during the week of our birthday," says Radio Nottingham's Managing Editor, Sophie Stewart.
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"As well as a welcome to return to some of the former presenters and other people who used to work at the station, we're also featuring past celebrity interviews with people like Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno.
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"And for those who want to remind themselves of what the station and our former colleagues look like, our Where I Live website [bbc.co.uk/nottingham] has a gallery of photos to look at," she adds. "There's even a promotional film from 1969, featuring some of the presenters who worked here in the past."
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Radio Nottingham was among the original eight regional stations set up by the 91Èȱ¬. The others are in Leicester, Sheffield, Merseyside, Stoke, Brighton (now Southern Counties Radio), Durham (now Cumbria) and Leeds.
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