Paul Hayes

Thank you! I'm pleased you enjoyed it!

Here's the resulting programme, if anyone's interested: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08r1sfm I'm rather pleased with it, I must say. I hope you enjoy it if you have a listen!

Yes, particularly in the first decade on-air especially it seems there would only usually be second half away commentary on crucial games, rather than as a matter of course, with updates being the usual order of the day.

Yes, there wasn't full live commentary on every game home and away until later in the 1990s. In the early days we still, as with the rest of the BBC, weren't usually allowed to do full commentaries on the games we did do, only second halves, as the clubs and the football authorities had long felt that full commentaries would impact on attendances. I probably won't have Barry, but there might be Canary Call clip or two. On the tapes I've already been sent there's some nice proto-Canary Call stuff from our earliest weeks on-air, with Justin Fashanu and John Bond in for phone-ins the morning after games. Also the 1982 promotion parade which is nice, and various early comms - including the Christmas 1982 derby with O'Neil's late free kick winner. ("Look at that!" says Roy). But as I say, more are always very welcome!

Hello all, I wondered whether I could ask for a bit of help, please? I'm a producer at BBC Radio Norfolk, and I'm currently working on some programmes to celebrate our 40th anniversary in September. Obviously an important part of our output down the decades has been the Norwich City coverage, and I'm planning to devote some time in at least one of the programmes to tell the story of some of this. Given the nature of the technology of the time, the archives are rather sparse when it comes to broadcasts from our early years on the air. Thanks to the generosity of some former members of staff and a Norwich fan who kindly offered up some tapes, I have gathered some nice material from the early 80s, and obviously the late 90s onwards are fairly well-represented in the archives we hold. But I wonder if any of you have any old cassettes of Radio Norfolk coverage of Norwich games you or a friend or family member taped off the radio back in the day? If so, I'd love to hear from you - especially if you have anything from the late 80s or early-to-mid 90s, which are VERY thin on the ground. Anything at all from any time in the 80s or 90s would be great though - and I can give you a digital copy of what's on the tapes in return. (As well as sending you the tapes back, of course!) If you have any tapes you'd be willing to lend, please do email me via paul.hayes@bbc.co.uk. (Of course, any Radio Norfolk tapes you have even if they're non-football would be of interest, too!) Thanks for taking the time to read this, anyway. Cheers, Paul