The 60s

Summer in the 60s, on Radio Scotland

A colourful journey through the decade in a season of programmes

Programme details subject to change for up to date information refer to BBC Radio Scotland Schedule.

Sunday 5 - 1960

1305-1500
Reel Blend

Join Robbie Shepherd as he celebrates the 1960s with tracks from some of best artists of the period, including Kenneth McKellar, Bobby Macleod, Jean Redpath and The Corries.

2005-2200
Classics Unwrapped

Classics Unwrapped celebrates the career of Kenneth McKellar - concentrating particularly on his now mostly-overlooked recordings of classical song and opera. When Radio 3's Stage and Screen did a feature on a host of great tenors who had recorded Bernstein's West Side Story - including Carreras, Pavarotti and di Stefano - McKellar's performance came out top. He was also a magnificent Handel singer, recording with Joan Sutherland and many other stars. Now 82, we have archive interview from a few years back when Jamie did talk to him about his Burns songs. We will also be hearing from some key Scottish musicians who pay tribute to his legacy including Donald Maxwell, Isobel Buchanan (who studied with him), Kirsteen McCue and Walter Blair who MD'd his last few albums. They'll also pick and introduce some favourite recordings.

Monday 6 - 1961

1005-1130
MacAulay and Co

Gary Marshall looks at the gadgets and technology that were brand new in 61, and at the predictions for the future.

1130-1200
Songlines

John Cavanagh tells the story of the Rolling Stones 1965 classic (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Built around a powerful opening riff, the song attacked advertising and consumerism.

1315-1400
The Last Variety Show

Drama about the decline of the music hall in the 1960s, featuring Alex Norton, Tony Roper, Gerard Kelly, Ford Kiernan, Karen Dunbar, Sean Scanlon and others.

1810-2000
Get It On

1961: Beatles play first gig at the Cavern Club - But who did you 'discover' before they were famous?

2005-2200
Vic Galloway

Hear two hours of rare, alternative, beat pop and underground tunes from Scotland and beyond. Including local music from The Poets, The Beatstalkers, Studio Six, Alex Harvey, The Luvvers (without Lulu) and The McKinleys. Plus the first ever session that The Marmalade recorded for the BBC.

Tuesday 7 - 1962

MW 0030-0600
The Celtic Zone

Sheena Wellington presents a 1960s special, as part of BBC Radio Scotland's "Summer in the '60s" season. As well as choosing some of her own favourite songs of the decade, Sheena introduces programmes on everything from protest songs to the thriving traditional scene. You'll hear the story of Hamish Henderson's 'Freedom Come All Ye' in Songlines: get up close and personal with Donovan in Stark Talk: and hear what happened when presenter Brian Morton met Joan Baez. Plus, Robbie Shepherd introduces fabulous archive recordings of three of the biggest Scottish Country Dance bandleaders of the era: and Jamie MacDougall reflects on the life and career of Kenneth McKellar, in 'For The Record'.

1005-1130
MacAulay and Co

Tuesday is food day on MacAulay and Co, and on this programme Fred looks back to see what people were really eating - some of the Fanny Craddock creations were really hideous!

1810-2000
Get It On

1962: Marilyn Monroe found dead - chronicled in Candle in the Wind - so tonight it's songs that name-check celebs.

2005-2200
Mary Ann Kennedy's Global Gathering

In the first hour of the show Mary Ann will be play music from some of the many African states which saw the 1960s as the springboard to independence. Featuring music from Algeria's Khaled and Souad Massi, Nigeria's Fela Kuti, Papa Wemba from DR Congo, Maryam Mursal from Somalia and more.

Wednesday 8 - 1963

1005-1130
MacAulay and Co

Graeme Virtue examines the big TV hits of the year.

1810-2000
Get It On

1963: It was the year of Martin Luther's 'I have a dream' speech - so tonight we feature the songs with a powerful message

Thursday 9 - 1964

MW 0030-0600
The New Music Zone

Get your summer swinging as the New Music Zone goes retro. It's a 1960s special, and devotee of the decade Richard Cadey is on a mission to seek out the music and personalities that made life that little bit groovy. Get behind the scenes of classic tracks like 'House of the Rising Sun' in Songlines: and lose yourself in psychedelia as we peer into a Classic Scottish Album from the Incredible String Band. Find out the story of the original hit factory as we travel to New York's Brill Building: and in 'When Pop and Politics Meet', we chart the war in Vietnam's influence on the hits of the sixties.

1005-1130
MacAulay and Co

A How Bizarre of the 60s with Chris Neil.

1130-1200
Sex Drugs and Woolly Semmits

Jack McLaughlin, a pirate DJ in the 1960s, meets some of the era's musical survivors to find out just how swinging Scotland was at the time. In this episode Jack talks to Graham Knight, who joined Dean Ford and The Gaylords in 1964, a popular group that gained international recognition after they changed their name to Marmalade.

1810-2000
Get It On

1964: Pirate Radio Caroline launches - so tonight it's songs all about Radio.

Friday 10 - 1965

MW 0030-0600
The Arts Classical and Jazz Zone

Davie Scott marks Summer in the 60s season with a selection of programmes reflecting the cultural highlights of that defining decade. John Cavanagh lifts the lid on Bob Dylan's 60s anthem The Times They Are A' Changing: Dr Richard Wilson examines the impact of the contraceptive pill on 60s Scotland: Clare English celebrates Motown in the Radio Café: Edward Seckerson chats with The Sound of Music star Julie Andrews. And Davie Scott dissects Bernard Hermann's 1960 score for Alfred Hitchcock's Pycho.

1005-1130
MacAulay and Co

Entire programme comes from the year 1965, using only 60s technology, clothes, tunes - typewritten scripts and manual sound effects.

2005-2200
Jim Gellatly's Music Bed 60s Special

We're going to look at the festivals that took place in the summer of 1969, featuring chat and memories from The Stones in The Park, Altamont, Woodstock and The Isle of Wight. We'll be talking to The Rolling Stone's biographer Richard Havers and legendary record producer Tony Visconti, who worked in the 60s with Joe Cocker, David Bowie and T-Rex.

Plus, some behind the scene glimpses of this year's T In The Park and a quick chat with John Taylor from Duran Duran, who, according to Jim, was the dishy one!

Saturday 11

MW 0030-0600
The Comedy Zone

Paul English marks the Fourth of July with a parade of American comedy. As part of the Sixties Season, we've profiles of Lenny Bruce and Albert Brooks. Greg Proops guides us through the history of modern American stand-up comedy, from Bob Hope to Chris Rock. Georgia born comedian Reginald D Hunter shares his life philosophy with Fred Macaulay. Supersized stand-up John Pinette chats with Clair English. And Stephen Fry tells Janice Forsyth about his travels to all fifty states of the union.

1005-1200
Janice Forsyth

Janice presents a sixties extravaganza with Scotland's very own MARMALADE in session and recounting their heyday years and modern acts like The Kooks, Amy Winehouse, and Shetland's Rock,Salt and Nails play tribute to sixties hits alongside original classics from the likes of The Kinks, Lulu, Alex Harvey and His Soul Band and The Beatstalkers.

Saturday 11 / Sunday 12

0630-0800 / 1105-1200
Out of Doors

Domestic holidays are popular now, as they were in the 60s, when summers were long and hot and foreign travel was expensive

In advance of July Out of Doors appeals to listeners to lend us their mildew-covered 60s camping equipment for use on a trip to one of Scotland's most popular camp/festival sites of the 60s

Do modern equipment and new fabrics make camping a more pleasurable experience today?

And how can listeners make the most of a summer holiday at home under canvas?

Suggestions for outdoor activities, wildlife-watching and things to do en route for all the family

Sunday 12

1205-1300
Beechgrove Potting Shed

Flower Power themed programme

Herbalism feature

Grow your own feature

Flowers of peace and love feature

Features mixed with 60s music

2005-2200
Classics Unwrapped

We feature the founding of Scottish Opera in 1962 with a profile of Sir Alexander Gibson's key role in setting it up. Including interviews with SO personnel who remember him and music from key productions and RSNO recordings of the time including Sibelius, Berlioz and Beethoven.

Monday 13 - 1966

1130-1200
The Fiery Cross

As part of Radio Scotland's 1960s season, Billy Kay explores the effects of the American Civil Rights Movement on Scottish society, music and politics in the 1960s and 70s.

1810-2000
Get It On

1966: the Beach Boys release Pet Sounds - but what are the albums and artists you consider innovative?

Tuesday 14 - 1967


1130-1200
Shankley and Stein

Drama

1810-2000
Get It On

1967: It's the sounds of the Summer of Love that feature on tonight's programme

Wednesday 15 - 1968

MW 0030-0600
The History Zone

Janice Forsyth blasts off into the Radio Scotland archives to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landings. In Men on the Moon, Heather Coupar finds out what happens to astronauts once they return to earth from space: poets Edwin Morgan and Simon Armitage offer some lunar-inspired verse in Moonscape: Stargazing offers 5 different views on the night sky from the Mills Observatory in Dundee: and John Cavangh reveals which song awoke the astronauts working on the Mir Space Station back in 2001 in an edition of his popular music series Songlines.

1810-2000
Get It On

1968: Barbra Streisand wins an oscar for Funny Girl - it's job swap night so that means the actors who sung and the pop stars who acted in the movies.

The Jazz House

Tonight the Jazz House present a 'Stage And Screen' special. Peppered throughout the show will be classic cuts from iconic jazz recordings from the 60's including some Scottish vintage.

Thursday 16 - 1969

1005-1130
MacAulay and Co

"If you remember the 60's you weren't really there" - To find out if this is really true the team get a few people who were around in the 60s and play a big game of call my bluff where they have to talk about events and facts about the 60s and the other ones have to decide if they are lying or not. Did that really happen? One off quiz in last half hour of programme.

1130-1200
Sex Drugs and Woolly Semmits

Jack McLaughlin, a pirate DJ in the 1960s, meets some of the era's musical survivors to find out just how swinging Scotland was at the time.

1810-2000
Get It On

1969: Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon - so tonight's theme is space.