Lorraine Bowen's Stereo Spectacular

Lorraine Bowen's Stereo Spectacular is an hour long radio show on Brighton (UK) Radio Reverb (97.2 FM) showcasing stereo sounds, interviews, field recordings, comedy bits and great tracks! Focusing on record shops, seaside towns, superb arrangers, composers and unusual music she'll take you into another world for your hours' train journey! Subscribe on iTunes, Mixcloud or Podomatic for a bit of monthly joy!

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Episodes

Lorraine Bowen's PODCAST - Stereo Spectacular 16 - WE LOVE HOUSEWORK!

Join Lorraine Bowen as she gets to grip with her pet hate - housework! Joined by the wonderful OPHELIA CLUNGE, Lorraine is swept away by tips, tricks and clever ideas to make the dull job better! Oh what an inspiration! And if you hate cleaning as much as Lorraine then just sit back on the train, bus or car and listen to sound effects, tracks and clever links to make your day seem much better! Everyone has to do it so we might as well have a bit of fun! Starring Alasdair Sheard as Ophelia Clunge...

Jun 11, 2013•54 min

Lorraine Bowen's PODCAST - Stereo Spectacular 15 - Sequin Safari

Lorraine Bowen’s hour long Stereo Spectacular journey this month takes us into an incredible but true story! This radio show is all inspired from a C90 cassette Lorraine recently found when having a clear-out. The true story unfolds of how Lorraine’s mother won first prize in the Shredded Wheat Competition 1979. 1979 - home to afro cuts, public worker strikes, long scorching school holidays, tales of glandular fever and the grind of A Levels. Sit back and enjoy this very eccentric tale! It’s won...

May 12, 2013•52 min

Lorraine Bowen's PODCASTS - Stereo Spectacular 14 - Down the Pub!

Welcome to Stereo Spectacular 14 - Down the Pub! Lorraine Bowen's unique look at aural delights visits pubs, bars, real ale and beer! Join Lorraine as she visits the Grafton Hotel pub in Worksop, Nottinghamshire and the star, Suzi Heals, who runs it and who is PASSIONATE about beer! You heard her here first! Lorraine was on holiday Up North when she stumbled across this pub with beer prices mostly around £1.99 for a pint in February 2013! Without her recording equipment, Lorraine got out her iPa...

Apr 11, 2013•54 min

Lorraine Bowen's PODCASTS - Stereo Spectacular 12 - ROUTE 66!

Exciting aural journey across the United States of America on the historic ROUTE 66! All in an hour! Use your imagination while Lorraine Bowen spins records, CDs, sound effects and hootenannies. Favourites such as Elvis Presley, B52s plus well known theme tunes are mixed in with lesser known gems to keep your ears and imagination whizzing through that LONG road trip! This programme is dedicated to Andy Ingram who is taking the leap to go out for over three weeks and do his dream adventure on his...

Mar 12, 2013•1 hr

Lorraine Bowen's PODCASTS - Stereo Spectacular 11 - BAD HAIR DAY!

Lorraine Bowen celebrates a BAD HAIR DAY! If you're in a bad mood, everything is going wrong, fed-up, the world seems at odds ... then this is the radio programme for you! After an hour of listening to everyone else's life going topsy-turvey, your problems will seem minuscule! Lorraine gets out all her bad temper songs like A Season in Hell, Raindrops Keep Falling on my Hair and I Don't Like Mondays. Listen to the lady at the gym exasperatingly trying to explain to someone how the washing machin...

Feb 19, 2013•55 min

Lorraine Bowen's PODCASTS - Stereo Spectacular 10 - QUIRKY VOICES

Lorraine's tenth radio programme and podcast is a tongue-in-cheek look at VOICES! Fed up with X Factor blandness pumped over tannoys across town, Lorraine gets out some quirky examples of voices and even gives you a singing lesson or three! Warm up with silly noises and the help of Joyce Grenfell and Norman Wisdom! Listen to the beautiful 7 octave range of a mongolian singer, soar to the dizzy heights of falsetto by a star you wouldn't believe could do that, PLUS hear the completely shambolic re...

Jan 14, 2013•57 min

Lorraine Bowen's PODCAST - Stereo Spectacular 8 - SPACE with Honeymink

Journey into SPACE! with Lorraine Bowen and Honeymink (from The Gentle People) as your hosts. This month's STEREO SPECTACULAR goes up into the galaxy playing terrific tracks from Jean Jacques Perry to Close Encounters with the likes of Joe 90 inbetween! Join the gals as they fasten their seat belts, glisten their leatherette space suits and speed off into an hour's journey for your aural delight! This hour long programme was first broadcast on Brighton's Radio Reverb 97.2FM local radio station. ...

Nov 18, 2012•57 min

Lorraine Bowen's PODCAST - Stereo Spectacular 7 - ORGANTASTIC!

Lorraine Bowen gets out the VITAL ORGANS records from her eccentric organ vinyl collection and goes ORGANTASTIC! on her monthly show on Radio Reverb 97.2 FM. Cheesy Hammonds, farfisas, Lowreys, Leslie Speakers, Casiotones, Moogs and beyond! Enjoy a mish-mash of styles from tango, swing waltz to upbeat mod beats in 1966! Lorraine can be found demonstrating her 80s home organ collection at events round the country and you can find out more or book her at www.lorrainebowen.co.uk

Oct 12, 2012•1 hr

Lorraine Bowen's PODCAST - Stereo Spectacular 5 - Out in the Country

Lorraine Bowen's 5th Stereo Spectacular goes Out in the Country! Join Lorraine in the countryside as she plays her favourite pop records, folky beats and easy listening favourites while interviewing the Marmalade Lady of Lindfield and commenting on wild flowers and frogs on Devil's Dyke! Always an eccentric and entertaining hour of aural delights! Producer - Melita Dennett Radio Reverb (97.2FM) - 'exciting, unusual and downright unpredictable radio'!

Aug 18, 2012•1 hr

Lorraine Bowen's PODCAST - Stereo Spectacular 3 - Barbara Moore on Radio Reverb

Lorraine Bowen celebrates the 1960s/70s arranger, composer and session singer, BARBARA MOORE. A whole hour of her music, scat singing, arrangements and orchestral force including the theme tune to The Saint, Library Music VOCAL SHADES AND TONES, Ladybirds vocal group and The Barbara Moore Singers. Lorraineinterviews Barbara, now 80 years old, in her home in Bognor Regis and fans all over the world will be delighted to hear of these stories and anecdotes to such marvellous music!

Jun 13, 2012•57 min

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