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Some years ago while collecting up my cassette tapes from around the house with a view to Digitising them I found a Birthday Radio Dediction Tape we had recorded in 1983 while living in Bahrain.

The theme of the Daily programme with Tim Manns as presenter was Radio link up with Radio Clyde in Scotland , so we sent them in Scotland a message and for my Birthday I got some dedications too.

As my wife was at the time suffering from Cancer and bed ridden I had plaenty of time to collect memories and chose to scan copy old photos.

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The result was a collection of images from our past overlayed with the Radio Bahrain programme which with Audacity I had converted to Digital and Windows had strung along the Soundtrack.

As I got three mentions I consider it unique.

Tim Manns is now Radio Plymouth and Mike Riddoch is still radio Clyde2FM on Riddy in the Morning programme.

I have since stopped playing Rugby having achieved the heights of Gulf Champions and Representing the Gulf in the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sevens.

I chose to work in the British Library and as we are the Nations Sound archive I asked about Radio Dedications and was informed that they are not collected as a Catalogued Item so I handed mine in. Here is the Birthday dedication Video  :-

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I hope you enjoy the unique choice of the Programme you are about to hear and Hello to anyone of the same Timeline in the same places.

Copyright was a concern so I contacted Tim Manns one of the Radio Bahrain Presenters now in Plymouth and received this reply.
Dear Ian




Thanks for your message and link to the film. I am so sorry to hear that you lost Jackie, it must have been very hard for you.



I haven’t listened to much, if anything, of my work in Bahrain. That show was nearly 30 years ago and I hardly recognise myself! You are very welcome to use it. Gulf countries were never overly concerned with copyright and I don’t think I could ever have any claim over something that old!



I would be amazed if any of my work made it into the British Library, commercial radio being such a transient and ‘light’ form of broadcasting. I did make one programme five years ago that might just warrant an entry which I would be happy to provide if they were interested. I worked for Southampton FC for three years, running The Saint radio station. In 2006 I published Tie A Yellow Ribbon – How The Saints Won The Cup http://www.hagiologists.com/tayr.htm to celebrate the 30th anniversary. I then used the interviews I had conducted for the book to make a one-hour radio programme which I am quite proud of – after 32 years in the business I hope it not too immodest to have one programme to be proud of!



I don’t have any links to Radio Bahrain however my old friend and RadBah colleague Bob McCreadie did visit a couple of years ago and was amazed to find Ian Fisher still there and also that they were still using the same jingles. I had them commissioned in 1981 so they have had their monies-worth out of them!



I spent six years in Qatar and I did meet Graham and Carol a few times. In fact Carol and my (then) wife were friends.



Best wishes,



Tim Manns

Station Manager - Radio Plymouth

3, Crescent Avenue Mews - Plymouth - PL1 3AP


Where are we now ? Well, Jackie survived until April 2010 after 10 years of Trial Screening and 8 years of illness.
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