{"id":28278,"date":"2018-02-23T08:07:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T08:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=28278"},"modified":"2021-09-16T06:25:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T05:25:04","slug":"music-week-the-old-grey-whistle-test-bbc4-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/music-week-the-old-grey-whistle-test-bbc4-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Week: The Old Grey Whistle Test &#8211; BBC4 TONIGHT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/media\/read\/it-s-going-to-be-a-huge-reunion-bob-harris-reveals-live-line-up-for-old-grey-whistle-test\/071570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/media\/read\/it-s-going-to-be-a-huge-reunion-bob-harris-reveals-live-line-up-for-old-grey-whistle-test\/071570 noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28279 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ogwt18a.jpg\" alt=\"ogwt18a\" width=\"220\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a>&#8216;It&#8217;s going to be a huge reunion&#8217;: Bob Harris reveals live line-up for Old Grey Whistle Test<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BBC Music is reviving The Old Grey Whistle Test for a one-off live special at 9pm tonight (February 23) on BBC Four. The revival marks 30 years since the legendary music TV show ended &#8211; it ran from 1971 to 1988 &#8211; and former host Bob Harris will be back at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>Harris presented the show with that famous \u201cwhispering\u201d delivery from 1972-78 and his spell included UK TV firsts including the performance from Bob Marley &amp; The Wailers. Forty-six years since he first hosted, Harris will be back for the live three-hour special, which has generated huge excitement among music fans of a certain age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know, it feels very exciting at this end too &#8211; the interest has been absolutely incredible,\u201d the Radio 2 presenter told Music Week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/media\/read\/it-s-going-to-be-a-huge-reunion-bob-harris-reveals-live-line-up-for-old-grey-whistle-test\/071570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Music Week<\/strong><\/a>. NB: Toyah will feature in a live interview having just come off stage from a performance of <em>Jubilee<\/em> at Lyric Hammersmith &#8211; Further info at <a href=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/interview-guest-on-the-old-grey-whistle-test-for-one-night-only\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>toyahwillcox.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s going to be a huge reunion&#8217;: Bob Harris reveals live line-up for Old Grey Whistle Test BBC Music is reviving The Old Grey Whistle Test for a one-off live special at 9pm tonight (February 23) on BBC Four. The revival marks 30 years since the legendary music TV show ended &#8211; it ran from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[362,1682,989,1821],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28278"}],"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=28278"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36582,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28278\/revisions\/36582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}