When Big Joan Sets Up has been on BCB for sixty years this year. Starting in 1954 broadcasting to Bradford her Empires and Territories and presented by my great-grandad Aubrey D’Ascogyne Cope the early episodes have been lost to the nation and in fact only two survive prior to 2006.

One of these is from 1992 presented by my maternal uncle “Ravin'” Dave Bonkers-Cope and was broadcast this week to mark his untimely death of a severely unblocked nose due to years of Vicks abuse.

Or I’m on holiday so I pre-recorded a programme full of old records.You choose.

“Top one, nice one, get sorted” as Ravin’ Dave used to say.

When Big Joan Sets Up 6th June – The Golden Hour Part 1 1992 by Phil Cope on Mixcloud

The Ragga Twins – “Shine Eye (12”) (Shut Up And Dance)
The Fall – “The Birmingham School of Business School (LP – “Code Selfish”) (Fontana)
Anthony Red Rose – “Tempo” (7″) (Firehouse)
Sonic Youth – “Drunken Butterfly” (LP – “Dirty”) (DSG)
Gas Huffer – “Beer Drinking Cavemen From Mars” (7″) (Sub Pop)
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – “Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury” (LP -“Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury”) (4th and Broadway)
Denim – “Middle Of The Road” (LP – “Back In Denim”) (Boy’s Own Recordings)
Urban Hype – “A Trip To Trumpton” (7″) (Faze 2)
The Wedding Present – “Cumberland Gap” (V/A LP – “Ruby Trax”) (NME)
Chaka Demus and Pliers – “Murder She Wrote” (12″) (5th Avenue South)
Pete Rock and CL Smooth – “Anger In The Nation” (LP – “Mecca and The Soul Brother”) (Elektra)
The Pharcyde – “Return Of The B-Boy” (LP – “Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde”) (Delicious Vinyl)
Huggy Bear – “Single Bullets” (EP – “Rubbing The Impossible To Burst”) (Wiiija)
S1000 – “Flatliners” (12″) (Guerilla)
The Boo Radleys – “Lazarus” (12″) (Creation)