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Website. www .bbc .co .uk /programmes /b006wr9w. The Organist Entertains was a long-running music programme broadcast on BBC Radio 2. The 30 minute programme focused on the organ in its many guises, and played recordings and live broadcasts of theatre organs, pipe organs and electronic organs around the United Kingdom and the rest of the world.
Nigel Ogden (born 1954) is an English theatre organist, known for presenting and performing on the BBC Radio 2 programme The Organist Entertains between 1980 and the end of the show's run in 2018. Ogden was born in Manchester, England, [1] the son of a church organist, and had several years of piano lessons, before taking up the organ at the ...
On television, he was the resident organist on the quiz show Double Your Money. [7] He created the BBC Radio 2 series The Organist Entertains in 1969, and was its main presenter until 1980, often at the BBC Theatre Organ in Manchester. A special edition in 2012 marked the centenary of his birth. [4]
Doreen Chadwick. Doreen Chadwick (7 August 1918 – 26 June 2014) was a British pianist and theatre organist. [1] She was known for being the organist at the Odeon and Gaumont cinemas in Manchester, broadcasting organ recitals on BBC Radio, including on the The Organist Entertains, and for her performances in the US, Holland, and Britain. [2]
A number of Wurlitzer theatre organs were imported and installed in the United Kingdom in the period from 1925 to just before the Second World War (1939–45). The first Wurlitzer theatre organ shipped to the UK was dispatched on 1 December 1924, and shipped in via Southampton Docks. A very small, six-rank instrument, it was installed at the ...
11 June – The Organist Entertains, presented by Robin Richmond, is broadcast for the first time. July. 10 July – The BBC publishes a report called "Broadcasting in the Seventies" proposing the reorganisation of programmes on the national networks and replacing regional broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 with BBC Local Radio.
Len Rawle MBE (4 January 1938 – 14 November 2023) was a Welsh organ builder and organist. [1] A London College of Music graduate, he was particularly noted for his restoration of Wurlitzer theatre organs, such as at Harrow, Tooting and Woking. [2] [3]
1968 in British radio – BBC Radio Nottingham hosts the UK's first ever radio phone-in.; [6] First broadcast of The Living World. 1969 in British radio – Annie Nightingale makes her debut on BBC Radio 1 and is the station's first female presenter; first broadcast of Waggoners' Walk and The Organist Entertains.