{"id":36686,"date":"2021-09-29T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=36686"},"modified":"2021-10-07T01:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T00:12:08","slug":"toyah-on-tv-britains-favourite-80s-songs-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-on-tv-britains-favourite-80s-songs-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah On TV: Britain\u2019s Favourite 80s Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Britain\u2019s Favourite 80s Songs: : 5Select: Saturday 9th October: 9pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Britain\u2019s Favourite 80s Songs: : 5Select: Friday 15th October: 1am<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>1986. Series 1, episode 7<\/em>. Tony Blackburn narrates this study of 1986 pop hits, with series regulars Toyah Willcox, Paul Gambaccini and Cheryl Baker joined by Sam Fox. Peter Gabriel&#8217;s Sledgehammer, Sinitta&#8217;s So Macho, Falco&#8217;s Rock Me Amadeus, and the Bangles&#8217; Walk Like an Egyptian are some of the tracks being discussed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Britain\u2019s Favourite 80s Songs: : 5Select: Saturday 9th October: 10.30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Britain\u2019s Favourite 80s Songs: : 5Select: Friday 15th October: 2.30am<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>1987. Series 1, episode 8<\/em>. Simon Bates narrates this look back at 1987, when George Michael, Madonna, and the Pet Shop Boys stormed the Top 40. Series regulars Toyah Willcox, Paul Gambaccini and Jenny Powell are joined by Carol Decker, who reflects on the era that her band, T&#8217;Pau, finally made their breakthrough. It was also a time when Rick Astley, the Firm, Mel &amp; Kim, and Bruce Willis had their share of chart success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Favourite 80s Songs: : 5Select: Saturday 9th October: 9pm Britain\u2019s Favourite 80s Songs: : 5Select: Friday 15th October: 1am 1986. Series 1, episode 7. Tony Blackburn narrates this study of 1986 pop hits, with series regulars Toyah Willcox, Paul Gambaccini and Cheryl Baker joined by Sam Fox. Peter Gabriel&#8217;s Sledgehammer, Sinitta&#8217;s So Macho, Falco&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,2632],"tags":[2039,2633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36686"}],"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=36686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36725,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36686\/revisions\/36725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}