Quote: "I remember him being mysteriously taken off air during the
1987 general election."

You're right. I remember that. I still must have been tuning in
in '87. He ended his last show before his break with a monologue.
Something with stirring music in the background (Jerusalem porobably)
and Jim kind of saying "I can't tell you how to vote, but ask
yourself who is more likely to preserve the NHS, safeguard jobs
etc...) Oh, how simpler life seemed back then.

Simon,
I think you've misunderestimated me there. m8, what I meant was on
Monday - Fri Reeve was on around 10 till 12 (approx.) and Wood
folowed him 12 till 2. I'd sy that was the best Radio schedule of all
time. Amazingly, I heard Billy Butler on Merseyside the other week
and he is still playing the Bradshaws 20 years on.

Nice memory-jogging here, though. I'd forgot all about Sam
Pierce, 'The Yodelling Working Man', Reeve Towers, his crazy letters
form far-right nutters, and his ability to slyly question the
sexuality and sexual behaviour of seemingly every single caller.
Frazier Chrous were proof the British record buying public didn't
fall for everything - Maybe Robert Palmer was a closet George Van
Dusen fan

Do you remember what he used to do to anyone who began teir call
with "How Do!"?