Radio 2 Through the Night

National radio had never broadcast round the clock regularly until the morning of 28 January 1979. Radio 2 had occasionally gone through the night at Christmas and New Year’s Eve and for election coverage and sporting events. You and the Night and the Music was hosted each day by one of the team of Radio 2 continuity announcers and it fell to Colin Berry to take care of the first show. Here Colin pops into Ray Moore’s studio during The Late Show to chat about the programme and to link up with BBC2 announcer Jenni Bale before kicking off the first edition at 2 a.m. Though I faded the recording as the first record starts some of you may just recognise the opening of Just One of Those Things by The Bowles Bothers.