READING/LEEDS 2004
Radio 1/6 Music, 7am-8pm
The last hurrah of summer finds radios terrestrial and digital descending mob-handed on two top and twinned festivals. Thus from 7am the bombastic Chris Moyles descends on Leeds for Radio 1, while the more cultured Phill Jupitus performs the same function on behalf of 6 Music. I recommend Jupitus, because he is a gentleman, while Moyles is not. But switch back to Radio 1 from 10am, though, because the charming and reliable Jo Whiley has radio sets by Green Day and the excellent Razorlight. Then back to 6 Music for Andrew Collins (4-7pm) and Julie Cullen and Mark Sutherland (7pm). Incidentally, 6 Music has “adopted” two bands for the weekend, Auf der Maur and Goldie Lookin’ Chain, and will be following them from tour bus to stage, backstage to Portaloo.
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M.A.S.H.
Radio 2, 9.15pm
It was the book that spawned the film that gave birth to the television series. Richard Hornberger’s experiences as a doctor during the Korean War gave rise to “Richard Hooker’s” bestselling novel of 1969, when America was in the depths of another Asian adventure. Hooker’s reminiscences (he based the character of Hawkeye Pierce on himself) became something of a dynasty in themselves, but here Tamsin Collison has abridged the first and most powerful in the series into six parts.