A 1974 NOSTALGIA-FEST FROM LEN GROAT!

It's October, 1974 and who's going to Prime Minister? Will it be Ted Heath (left); Jeremy Thorpe (centre) or Harold Wilson (right)? Meanwhile, Metro Radio is still in its infancy with a huge variety of news, drama, sport, motoring, quiz and music programmes.

ByANDY FLEMING

WEBMASTER

Well it's back to 1974 now and time for a great tranche of audio from Len Groat, one of the original line-up of presenters at the Metropolitan Broadcasting Company when it started

transmissions earlier that year. Many of the clips supplied by Len were produced in-house by Metropolitan Broadcasting itself and are of jingles, programme trailers, promos or commercials.

To set the scene, you will recall that 1974 was the year of Miner's Strikes, three day weeks, two General Elections, and a Lib-Lab Pact. Television's hours were cut to 10.30pm closedown by government edict in order to save electricity. There were power cuts, bakers' strikes and there was the first of a couple of major oil price shocks, the result of an Arab-Israeli War, the Yom Kippur War of October, 1973.