Who remembers 'Movie-Go-Round'?
My wife is sometimes a little bit fascinated by the fact that when an old musical film is shown on one of the cable TV channels, or questions about musical films crop up on TV quiz shows, just how much I know about them. Sometimes I even surprise myself with such knowledge. Many of you reading this posting will either be too young or even maybe your parents were not even born when a radio show called 'Movie-Go-Round' aired on the BBC. I don't mean that unkindly, because I am talking about the early 1960s, although that's when I started listening to it. Not out of choice, mind. Back in the 1960s, we listened to the radio a lot and, I mean a lot . Daytime TV was a long way off from blighting our lives and my parents, like most parents of the time, spent most of each day in the kitchen. Which meant the radio was on all the time. 'Movie-Go-Round' had two or three presenters in its time and ran from 1956 to 1969. Back in those days, before the restructure of BBC Radi...