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Music Week: Bob Harris on the power of country music in the UK and the stars of C2C Festival 2025
Here, Bob Harris shares his highlights of this year’s line-up and discusses the ongoing rise of country music in the UK…
“Beyoncé is fantastic” - Bob writes in Radio Times
“Forget the pale, male & stale image of old - the future of country music is bright and female.”
“My friend the rebel DJ” - Bob on Johnnie Walker
The presenter who announced Walker’s death on BBC Radio 2 last week says his warmth and adventurous spirit set the bar for broadcasting.
Bob Harris on 25 years of hosting BBC’s The Country Show, tattoos,and how he coped with a cancer diagnosis
It’s just over a week since he compered the annual C2C country music festival and Bob Harris chuckles when Total TV Guide asks him about how hard liquor and a US singer-songwriter led to him getting his first ever tattoo, aged 77.
Bob & his son, Miles, launch “A Game Of No Halves” - the ultimate Fantasy Football Podcast.
For over 35 years, broadcasting legend “Whispering” Bob Harris OBE has managed his line-up, built stadiums and training grounds and kept records of every single match played. On January 3rd 2024 Bob & Miles will broadcast the first weekly #Podcast charting the highs & lows of North London FC.
Sunderland-bound Whistle Test presenter says Sex Pistols incident is “water under the bridge”
Broadcasting legend Bob Harris has told the Echo that an infamous event involving himself and punk icons the Sex Pistols is ‘water under the bridge’.
Bob is interviewed for The Cricketer magazine
Bob was more than a little delighted to be interviewed for a feature in The Cricketer magazine this month.
The Oxford Times: “The Backstage Boys”
A super interview and show preview with The Oxford Times ahead of Bob & Danny’s show at The New Theatre, Oxford on March 22nd 2022.
Press: "Old Grey Whistle Test legend Whispering Bob Harris lifts lid on why he won't retire - Mirror Online"
The whispering tones of Bob Harris meant the Old Grey Whistle Test was the iconic sound of a generation. And the man who interviewed Elton John, John Lennon, David Bowie and countless others isn't ready to settle down just yet.
#StandByMe2020
19 August 2020: 60 years after it was first recorded, Ben E King’s iconic ‘Stand By Me’ is being re-recorded for a very special release.
From Radio Luxembourg to The Old Grey Whistle Test, Whispering Bob Harris on the music that defined a generation
“How can you not form a tight bond with the man who introduced you to the classiest singer songwriters, (from Neil Young to the young Elton and Jackson Browne) a man who then sells you country, with a passion so powerful you’d reckon one of the four mothers of his eight children would be called Tammy or Shania, and at least one of the kids would have a hyphen in their first name?”