{"id":10179,"date":"2012-12-09T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=10179"},"modified":"2012-12-09T15:18:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T15:18:27","slug":"toyah-on-the-radio-neil-tennants-smash-hits-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-on-the-radio-neil-tennants-smash-hits-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah on the Radio: Neil Tennant’s Smash Hits Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toyah is guesting in a\u00a0BBC Radio 4\u00a0special on Smash Hits this Christmas, hosted by Neil Tennant.<\/p>\n

Neil Tennant’s Smash Hits Christmas: BBC Radio 4: Thursday 20th December: 11.30am<\/strong>
\nNeil Tennant was a journalist on music’s most poptastic magazine before he was a Pet Shop Boy. Here, with colleagues and stars, he recalls the early 80s golden age of Smash Hits.<\/p>\n

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We hear from founder and legendary magazine-maker Nick Logan, from editors David Hepworth and Mark Ellen, writers Miranda Sawyer and Sylvia Patterson and from regular Smash Hits cover girl, Toyah.<\/p>\n

We also sample a rare recording from the 1982 Christmas Flexidisc (a message from the stars) and what’s probably Neil Tennant’s first ever recording.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toyah is guesting in a\u00a0BBC Radio 4\u00a0special on Smash Hits this Christmas, hosted by Neil Tennant. Neil Tennant’s Smash Hits Christmas: BBC Radio 4: Thursday 20th December: 11.30am Neil Tennant was a journalist on music’s most poptastic magazine before he was a Pet Shop Boy. Here, with colleagues and stars, he recalls the early 80s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,67,72],"tags":[293,477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10183,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions\/10183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}