This was an idea I’d been working on for a while, with alternative titles such as ‘Songs I can’t sing’ – because I can’t get through them without choking up. Eventually we made it to air, but to remember (slightly too late) that May 1st is a holiday throughout Europe and most of our audience could well be in their garden having a barbecue… Even so we had up to 23 listeners with 17 most of the time, which is very pleasing.
Pre and post-show were thrown together at the last minute from things that had not quite made it into recent shows.
This show was surprisingly hard to present. As the last track in the postshow says, one of these days I’ll get an early night…
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year |
| I Robot | The Alan Parsons Project | I Robot | 1977 |
| Eve Of The War | Richard Burton/Justin Hayward | Jeff Wayne’s The War Of The Worlds | 1978 |
| The Three Fates: | Emerson, Like & Palmer | Emerson, Like & Palmer | 1970 |
| Time Marches On | John Scofield | Blue Matter | 1987 |
The Show
| Indian Reservation | John D. Loudermilk | The Open Mind of John D. Loudermilk | 1969 |
| Cherry Pie | Sade | Lovers Live | 2002 |
| Sunshine Reggae | Laid Back | Keep Smiling | 1983 |
| My Feet Are Set For Dancing | Fairport Convention | Gladys’ Leap | 1985 |
| Honour and Praise | Fairport Convention | Gladys’ Leap | 1985 |
| Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) | Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here | 1975 |
| Fantasia Lindum – Celestial Light | Amazing Blondel | Fantasia Lindum | 1971 |
| Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) | Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here | 1975 |
| Albion Heart | The Albion Band | The Guv’nor’s Big Birthday Bash | 2001 |
| Bayonet Rap | Tom Paxton | The Compleat Tom Paxton | 2002 |
| Talking Vietnam Pot Luck Blues | Tom Paxton | The Compleat Tom Paxton | 2002 |
| Jimmy Newman | Tom Paxton | The Compleat Tom Paxton | 2002 |
| Made In Freesland | Godewind | 20 Johr Platt ‘n Roll | 1999 |
| Close the Coalhouse Door | Alex Glasgow | Hi,Canny Man!’ Newcastle Songs | 2002 |
| Billie Holiday | Live performance | 1959 | |
| Wind Of Change | Scorpions | Crazy World | 1990 |
| Red Barchetta | Rush | Moving Pictures | 1981 |
Postshow
| The Hiring Fair | Fairport Convention | Gladys’ Leap | 1985 |
| Lost In Kashmir | The Hellecasters | Escape From Hollywood | 1994 |
| Lost In The Snow | Bruce Hornsby | Halcyon Days | 2004 |
| One of These Days I’ll Get an Early Night | Camel | Rain Dances | 1977 |