Radio Lancashire ...

[Bernard Dawson]

Originally Posted by JCB

I don't know but a Mr O'Rourke was a regular contributor , and a man from Blackburn who was prominent in the party that was equivalent to the present-day BNP . I think he got on Blackburn Council once , but I am not sure of it .

Fletcher Richarson certainly rings a bell .

That's the one. Frank O'Rourke was always on. John Kingsley Read was the man from Blackburn.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by JCB

As Radio Blackburn , there used to be a programme perhaps not unlike Accy Web . It was called Phone Forum and was broadcast about 6pm each day .

All the local crackpots used to phone in .

Did they have speed-dial in the seventies?

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by JCB

As Radio Blackburn , there used to be a programme perhaps not unlike Accyweb . It was called Phone Forum and was broadcast about 6pm each day .

All the local crackpots used to phone in .

There was even a better one on at 11pm with Alan Beswick, now there were some real fruit cakes came on the program, in fact Beswick was eventually bared for the way he talked to some of the prats who phoned in

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson

That's the one. Frank O'Rourke was always on. John Kingsley Read was the man from Blackburn.

Good grief Bernard, Frank O'Rourke leader of the Oswaldtwistle Communist Party, those were the days.