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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 ...
25 April – Mrs Dale's Diary broadcasts for the final time. 28 April – The first edition of soap opera Waggoners' Walk is broadcast. [1]11 June – The Organist Entertains, presented by Robin Richmond, is broadcast for the first time, as Richmond himself joins the station.
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 ...
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]
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.
However, BBC Radio 2 announced that Early Breakfast show presenter Nicki Chapman, 57, has taken over Wright’s Sunday Love Songs slot until Easter, when a permanent replacement will step in.