Here’s what’s on FABULOUS 4LEGS Radio
7am – 9am The Pete Brady Breakfast Show
Start the last month of the year with two hours of great music which includes my Featured Artist, Alicia Keys. With sales of just under one hundred million records and the winner of 15 Grammys, Time magazine has named her in their list of the 100 most the influential people in both 2005 and 2017. Don’t miss it
9am – 11am Yabber Yabber with Chris Capel
Today’s ‘live’ studio guest is Roger Allison (pic right) who’s the Publicity Organiser for Read Easy West Berkshire. The West Berks group was formed in January 2023, and are now coaching 8 readers, with more in the pipeline. Their big challenge is finding more people they can support. There’s also the weekly look at the local news and events with Brian Quinn and we’ve our usual “business matters” slot which tells you what’s been happening in the UK economy over the past 7 days. There’ll be lots of great music too. Enjoy!
11am – 11.30am The Sheepdrove Eco Show
As the countries of the world convene at COP28 to discuss the climate crisis this week, the Sheepdrove Eco Show invites an eminent climate scientist to summarise the COP process for us and Penny talks to the organisers of the recent COP28 vigil in Newbury. We also hear about a socially equitable levy on carbon consumption proposed by the Citizen Climate Lobby.
Today’s show is sponsored by Sheepdrove Organic Farm
11.30am - 12noon This Week with Penny
Penny pops up the road to visit Tobi Corney’s local Christmas tree plantation of organic Nordmann Firs and Blue Spruces all ready for the festive season. She also shares with Chris her latest recipe for seasonal squash.
12noon – 12.30pm The Downlands Racing Show with Pat Murphy & Chris Carter Brennan
It’s Newbury’s big race weekend of the jump season with some fantastic racing on both Friday and Saturday. The feature race
being The Coral Gold Cup on Saturday. Can Pat & Chris find you the winner? Tune in to find out when they’ll be going through all the runners and riders in the big race.
Today’s show is sponsored by Sporting Agenda who provide all your V.I.P tickets for Sporting Events
12.30pm – 1.30pm The Finance Show with Karen Salmon
Joining Karen will be Peyton Matthews-Hewer (pic right) and Alex Atkins. This months subjects are: Children in the Middle– child arrangements over Christmas. Plus how to Stay Legal Over the Holidays– laws you should not break over Christmas and Victorian laws that still apply today!
Today’s show is sponsored by Marlborough Law A Local Firm for Local People
1.30pm - 2.30pm Let There Be Drums with Max & Chris
In this 5th show in the series the focus is on ‘hired guns’ (session musicians). You may not know some of the drummers like Hal Blaine and Max Weinberg but you’ll know some of the artists they’ve worked with and songs and the tracks they’ve played on. Also, did you know that Stevie Wonder played the drums on some of his tracks? We’ll be playing some snippets from those those tracks as well
2.30pm - 4.30pm Face2face with Tim & Linda Forrester
On this week’s Face2Face, Tim and Linda look back at the story behind the Guinea Pig Club of WW2, find out who the Map Men are, check out the real Cary Grant story and pit forward some ideas for Christmas entertainment. Plus lots of non Christmas music, ranging from Jim Diamond to Echo and the Bunnymen and Diana Ross.
