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Following our very popular look at offshore radio, starting this weekend we begin bringing you the original rockumentary. It’s “The History of Rock and Roll”.
Three versions of this series were produced, in 1969, 1978, and 1981. We’ve played you one of the later versions some years ago, but over the next year, we’re bringing you the original from 1969, narrated by Humble Harve Miller.

If you want to go deep into the roots of rock and roll, this is the version of the documentary you want to hear and it’s programming you won’t want to miss.

Understandably, when people think of 22 November 1963, most people immediately think of the assassination of President Kennedy. On the other side of the Atlantic, a band that was still little-known in the United States but which had Britain in the grip of an unprecedented mania, released their much-anticipated second album. It will be 60 years ago on Wednesday 22 November that the “With the Beatles ” album was released.

I’ll be devoting the Mosen Explosion slot to a celebration of the album. Learn about each song, who wrote it, how it was written and recorded.

This week on Deep Dive we enjoy the outstanding talent of American singer Diana Ross. We enjoy sweet summertime, touch me in the morning, and say thank you.

Tune in at 4 PM Eastern Monday, which is 8 AM Tuesday in Eastern Australia. Or at 6 AM Eastern Wednesday, which is 10 PM in Eastern Australia. Dance towards your SmartSpeaker of choice and demand that it play Mushroom FM, and it will happen immediately. They're very obedient like that.

Deep Dive, where we focus on one artist for one hour. Heard exclusively on Mushroom FM, home of the fun guys.

After you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis who is now all better, and that's a good thing, tomorrow afternoon from 02:00 PM to 05:00 PM, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac, smart speaker or tablet and join me for The Early Years, where and when you'll hear the best music from the first half of the Rock and Roll era with nods to other decades and genres.

Greetings! I'm back from the land of lost voices with a brand new, and live, episode of Come by the Hills this week, in which there will be songs about coming, songs about going, songs about trees and flowers, and one song about the road not taken. I'll also have a very special request to fulfill, and right near the beginning of the show, I'm going to play a really cool bit from Joni Mitchell's recent live album which we played a few weeks ago, but which I just think is an amazing bit of communal performance. In fact, I'm rather obsessed with it at the moment.

It’s Jonathan Mosen, taking on the daunting task of filling in for the venerable melissa Riccobono this week on the Song Remembers When.

Over the last five and a half months, we’ve brought you one of the most comprehensive examinations of offshore radio ever broadcast. This is been very popular and we are glad so many people have enjoyed it.

This series concludes this week, with legendary British broadcaster Keith Skues examining offshore radio jingles, and playing plenty of them. While jingles were a well-established element in North American commercial radio, they weren’t regularly used in Europe until the offshore era.

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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Pollyanna from 1960, and Frozen II from 2019.
Pollyanna is a 1960 American comedy-drama film starring child actress Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town.

The "Juke In The Back" focuses on the " soul that came before rock n' roll," the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.

This week on Deep Dive we feature the talents of American rock band the Doobie Brothers. We visit China Grove, and Black Water, and listen to music.

Tune in at 4 PM Eastern Monday, which is 8 AM Tuesday in Eastern Australia. Or at 6 AM Eastern Wednesday, which is 10 PM in Eastern Australia. Direct your SmartSpeaker to be very smart and play Mushroom FM and you'll join the fun guys.

Deep Dive, where we focus on one artist for one hour is heard exclusively on Mushroom FM.