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                       Mike Wallbank

Sunday Afternoon

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The show that time forgot & the voice of  the Community Noticeboard !

Listen to Mike every Sunday afternoon from 1pm for the Show That Time Forgot with rare gems from the bargain bin, oddities, novelties and great forgotten oldies, also looking back at local events and happenings in years gone by, from the Newsround Tameside archive

The Newsround Tameside archive is a regular feature of the Show That Forgot - carefully preserved from 'a previous life' long ago... The original Newsround Tameside was a weekly feature on the local hospital radio station -sadly now defunct - which broadcast to the patients and staff at Tameside General Hospital. The station was officially launched in 1983 as Heartbeat Radio, but later adopted the name 8 Towns Radio.

Mike was there right from the start, training a team of volunteers to compile and read the hourly news bulletins. He read the news on the station's very first day on air, Saturday 22 October 1983. That same weekend, he presented the first edition of Newsround Tameside, compiled from the week's local papers. The 15-minute round-up evolved into a feature within Mike's own show which ran for 10 years, from February 1984 until early 1994.

8 Towns Radio made history in October 1992 when it was heard across the borough of Tameside for the first time. This was a special event broadcast to help raise funds for the hospital station, but it was also the first community radio station created by local people, for local people, here in Tameside.  As such, it proved to be a trail-blazer, pioneering the 'real local radio' of today - 103.6FM Tameside Radio.

Mike is one of several ex-8 Towners who are now with Tameside Radio. For a real blast from the past, with lots more photos and vintage audio clips to listen to, go to www.8townsradio.co.uk

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