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OTB 0014 (1CD) Sunday 27 April 1986, 1-2pm Eurovision Special (7 past performers) I haven’t made enough use of my past interviews in On The Beat, really because I always have had new interviews that I prefer to broadcast. Here the Eurovision Song Contest was taking place the next weekend and I put together past UK entrants in chronological order: Teddy Johnson (‘Sing Little Birdie’ with Pearl Carr, 1959), Bryan Johnson (‘Looking High, High, High, 1960), Ronnie Carroll (‘Ring-A-Ding-Girl’, 1962 and ‘Say Wonderful Things’, 1963), Clodagh Rodgers (‘Jack In The Box’, 1971), Brian Bennett and Bruce Welch (‘Let Me Be The One’, The Shadows, 1975) and Lynsey De Paul (‘Rock Bottom’ with Mike Moran, 1977). It works fine but it is hard to imagine a naffer collection of songs. None of the interviews had been done specifically for this Eurovision special. The interview with Bryan Johnson came from Bob Azurdia and he had spoken to him when he was in panto in St. Helens. Bryan was in Donald Wolfit’s acting company and played the Fool in King Lear, causing Wolfit to proclaim “He was the best Fool I ever had”. Teddy Johnson MD 0213 T, Bryan Johnson MD 0058 T, Carroll MD 0019 T, Rodgers MD 0089 T, Bennett MD 0002 T, Welch MD 0003 T, De Paul MD0159 T

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