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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. The programme ran as a weekly feature on Radio 2 ...
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]
After Ernest Broadbent's retirement, he was appointed Tower organist in 1977. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Noted for his distinctive Dixon-inspired "Blackpool style" [ 3 ] of playing, he has made numerous appearances on television and radio playing the Tower's 1935 Wurlitzer organ, especially on the long-running BBC Radio 2 programme The Organist Entertains ...
In 2009, Tindersticks' "The Organist Entertains" was featured in the closing credits of an episode of the HBO series Eastbound & Down. "Hubbards Hill" was used in the closing credits of another episode, "Chapter 9", in 2010. The Tindersticks song "Cherry Blossoms" was featured in the 2009 film Unmade Beds.
Pick of the Pops is a long-running BBC Radio programme; it was based originally on the Top 20 from the UK Singles Chart and was first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on 4 October 1955. [ 1] It transferred to BBC Radio 1 ( simulcast on BBC Radio 2) from 1967 to 1972. [ 2] The show returned to the BBC in 1989 and its current production run ...
Here it became well known, played by organist Brian Sharp on BBC Radio 2 programme The Organist Entertains. Acquired by the Isle of Man Government in 1989, it became popular entertaining tourists at Summerland until its closure in 2004. The Wurlitzer has now been fully restored by organist Len Rawle, installed in the Villa Marina complex [21 ...