Aircheck GOLD
UPDATED 30/10/2004
Radio stations come and radio stations go. On this edition, we honour a feature long gone, and hope to help a fan remember! We'd love to post your memories of the features of radio stations, past or present on AIRCHECK GOLD just like we have done here for Stan. If you'd like to contact me and give your own special tribute to any station from the past, please e-mail the site..
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96.4 FM BRMB - Les Ross Breakfast Show Serial 'Yesterday Never Comes'
Stan Harper writes:
'I have just read the page concerning Les Ross who has just started with
Saga 105.7 fm breakfast show. Can you or any of your friends recall
Les Ross doing a daily feature in his Breakfast shows about 20 years ago called "Yesterday Never Comes", a day in the life of Little
Whittle? If I remember correctly, Les did all the characters, the main ones being:
Miss Take, the Little Whittle school mistress and part-time SAS group leader;
Cook, the Butler;
Butler, the Cook;
Gravely Hill, the Little Whittle undertaker;
The story lasted about 3 to 4 minutes and achieved almost a cult following. I would be very interested to hear any comments you may have regarding this, or whether I am barking up the wrong tree.'
The Aircheck Editor writes: It wasn't just 20 years ago that the serial was aired - over more recent but not very recent years, it made a return to Les' breakfast show. But, can you add to Stan's memories? We'll post them here! E-mail for a site update!
Guy Burley replies: 'Hi Ian & Stan, I remember the serial and I think I still have several episodes from around 1982 on cassette somewhere as I was completely hooked on it as a child, I even asked a friend to tape it for me when I went on holiday! It was aired at around 8:25 each weekday morning. The main characters were: Miss Take, Doctor Hamish Blunder, Lady Lord Dwight D Eisensecond III ,The Vicar. Later on Miss Take married Gravely Hill, there were also a character called The Maharishi Boggs. Butler the Cook and Cook the Butler worked for Lady Lord but I only remember them being it if fleetingly. Storylines included: Playing in the World Cup ('82) (Miss Take was sent off) and Wimbledon (Miss Take forfeited the game against John McEnroe for unsportsmanlike conduct), Miss Take messing with magic and burning her house to the ground (when the fire brigade were on strike due to council cuts ... bit of politics!) Regards, Guy
Chris Norman writes: "Greetings. I used to listen to Les Ross on a Walkman the size of a thick paperback as I did a paper round in the mornings. "Yesterday Never Comes" was one of the highlights of the morning. It was actually broadcast twice during the breakfast show to allow both the early and late commuters the chance to follow the serial.
Episode 1 played early in the morning and
episode 2 later on. The next day would be episode 2 and 3, etc. so the
hidden joke was that yesterday actually did come again. The show
invariably started the following way - "Yesterday Never Comes, the true
life story of the ups and downs and ins and outs and sometimes the <insert
random object here - "rubber ducks" sticks in my memory> of the
people who lived in Little Whittle, a small town not far from Wattle. Lady
Lord, wealthy widow of the late Lord Lord, and Miss Take, Little Whittle
schoolmistress and part time SAS group leader...."
Miss Take always started her sentences with "Meep, Meep, Meep" like a
van reversing. Lady Lord was famous for her "internationally
accliamed marzipan orange cup cakes" Great memories. I'd love
to find some recordings to relive those moments with. Chris Norman"
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