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BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4

First broadcast: Radio 3 in 1978, a feature about the pianist Leopold Godowsky.

1978-91: Radio 4 'Stop The Week' with Robert Robinson. Wrote the words and music to over 150 humorous, topical songs.

RADIO FEATURES AND SERIES

BBC Radio 2

Features:

• Green and Pleasant Land A Portrait of England in Words and Music
  Winner of Sony Gold Award. Best Speech and Music Programme, 1996

• Maybe It's Because...  A celebration of London

• The Communication Chord  Steam trains in words and music

• The Movies' Master Musician  Erich Korngold centenary tribute

• The Blue Boy of Variety  Ronald Frankau centenary tribute
  'Jeremy Nicholas's portrait of this highly skilled skater on thin ice is an unmissable treat' The Times

• The Titan of the Organ  George Thalben-Ball
  'A terrific centenary tribute' The Times

• Seated One Day At The Organ  A celebration of the organ

• The Twelve Days of Christmas  in music!

Series:

• The Jeremy Nicholas Anthology  music linked by a common theme

• Distant Voices  Historic voices from the archives
  'A marvellous series' The Times
  'Eerie, inconsequential and utterly compelling' The Independent
  'A gem of a series, compiled with care, presented with grace' Daily Telegraph

BBC Radio 3

Presenter:

• 1992-97 - Mainly For Pleasure and In Tune

Series:

• The Shellac Show  Four series devoted to listener's 78 rpm requests
  'One of the most entertaining, informative and thought-provoking programmes on offer' The Independent

Features:

• Vintage Years: Shura Cherkassky

• Vintage Years: George Cziffra

• Chopin By Arrangement  Four programmes on arrangements of Chopin's music

• Contributor to Record Review

• Moritz Moszkowski

• Leopold Godowsky

• Erwin Nyiergyhazi

BBC Radio 4

Presenter:

• 1992-1997 The Tingle Factor (four series) and Personal Records (five series)

• 1978 - 1991 Songwriter for Stop the Week

Features:

• Funny You Should Sing That Comic songs and their writers, 6 x 30 mins., 4 x 60 mins.

• Hello Children... Everywhere  Children's Favourites, 5 x 60 mins.
  'Most of us would be more than happy to see the programme given a regular slot - with Uncle Jeremy at the controls' The Independent
  'There was nothing to match any of the delights in Jeremy Nicholas's glorious potpourri' Daily Mail

• Tumpty-Tumpty-Tumpty-Tum  Signature tune

• With A Song In My Heart  Two-Way Family Favourites

• Something Borrowed, Something New  Musical plagiarism

• Nymphs and Shepherds  60 years after Manchester Schoolchildren's Choir's record

• Who'd Have Thought It?  Peculiar recordings

• The Boy Who Sang 'O For the Wings of a Dove'  60 years after Ernest Lough's record

• The Ruthless Rhymer  Lyricist Harry Graham

• Nicholas's Latin Primer Latin in the 1990s
  'One of those rare programmes which cause people to ring friends to make sure they are listening too. It was original, instructive, entertaining and thoughtful as well as being funny and provocative... If you missed it, phone to ask for a repeat. It was a programme where pains had been taken to make it a pleasure to listen' Daily Telegraph.
  'New Year's Day was brightened up by Nicholas's Latin primer... unquenchably jolly' Sunday Independent

• Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bard  Shakespeare in the 1990s

• The High Priest of Latin
  'A spirited programme about the remarkable Father Reginald Foster' Sunday Times

• The Jeremy Nicholas Morning programme  How we start the day

• Boards and lodgings Actors on the road

• Storm Ten, Rain Later, Good  Shipping Forecast

• The Piano Lesson Mini series on the way the piano is taught
  ‘An inspired idea for a radio series’ (Observer)
  ‘One of the season’s unexpected and richly-deserved hits’ (Daily Telegraph)
  ‘A charmingly quirky little series presented by the genial Jeremy Nicholas’ (Daily Mail)

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