{"id":29336,"date":"2018-07-18T00:43:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T23:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=29336"},"modified":"2018-07-18T02:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T01:48:28","slug":"smashing-hits-the-80s-pop-map-of-britain-and-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/smashing-hits-the-80s-pop-map-of-britain-and-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Hits! The 80s Pop Map of Britain and Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah is currently\u00a0voicing continuity\u00a0on BBC Four&#8217;s <em>Smashing Hits! The 80s Pop Map of Britain and Ireland<\/em>. The final part of the three-episode series airs this Friday at 10pm, with a repeat late night Saturday. The first two episodes are currently available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0b99n1s\/episodes\/player\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BBC iPlayer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0b99n1s\/episodes\/player\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0b99n1s\/episodes\/player\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29337\" alt=\"smashinghits18a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/smashinghits18a.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/smashinghits18a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/smashinghits18a-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Smashing Hits! The 80s Pop Map of Britain and Ireland: BBC4: Fri 20th July: 10pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Smashing Hits! The 80s Pop Map of Britain and Ireland: BBC4: Sun 22nd July: 0.00am<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo 80s icons explore the distinct sounds that came out of different parts of Britain and Ireland in one of pop&#8217;s golden decades. Midge Ure, lead singer of Ultravox and one of the men behind Band Aid, and Kim Appleby, who had a string of hits with her sister Mel in the Stock, Aitken and Waterman-produced band Mel and Kim, go on a journey back in time to the 80s to figure out why certain cities produced their own diverse tunes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Further info\/Watch the episodes at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0b99n1s\/episodes\/player\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BBC iPlayer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah is currently\u00a0voicing continuity\u00a0on BBC Four&#8217;s Smashing Hits! The 80s Pop Map of Britain and Ireland. The final part of the three-episode series airs this Friday at 10pm, with a repeat late night Saturday. The first two episodes are currently available at BBC iPlayer. Smashing Hits! The 80s Pop Map of Britain and Ireland: BBC4: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,7,1803],"tags":[341,1940],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29336"}],"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=29336"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29343,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29336\/revisions\/29343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}