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Hello and welcome to the online home of The
Retro Hour! This section of our website will
take you on a whistle-stop tour of the 1970s, 1980s,
1990s and 2000s.
Each Saturday morning you can join us in the HWD Hospital
Radio time-machine as we take you back to one particular year.
You'll find out who and what was in the news, the sporting
headlines, what was big on the television, which films were showing at the
local cinemas and the songs you were listening to on the radio.
Discover who was at number one with our mini-countdown
of the songs you were buying this very week.
If you've got the time, we've got the memories, Saturday
mornings from 9.
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Stuart Barrett - Retro Hour
host
Stuart has been the regular host of the Retro
Hour since the early 1990s and has been on air
at HWD Hospital Radio since 1986.
(HWD Hospital
Radio is not responsible for the content of external
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Credit cards were introduced, Mr Rubik presented his
cube for the first time, the Queen had her Silver Jubilee,
Virginia Wade won Wimbledon, Abba proved that Sweden
could produce music as well as cars and Margaret Thatcher
took up residence at Number Ten.
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The decade of two royal weddings, a visit
from Halley’s comet, the fall of the Berlin wall,
the birth of Channel 4, and a nationwide miners’
strike... not to mention the fund raising efforts of
BandAid and LiveAid.
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The time when Mickey Mouse arrived in Paris,
the Queen opened the doors of Buckingham Palace and
the entrance to the Channel Tunnel, Bill Clinton opened
his oval office to Monica and girl power was an excuse
for ladies to behave badly.
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The 9/11 terror attack on American destroyed
the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Sven-Goran
Eriksson took over as the head coach of England's football
team, Concorde made its final flight and the Tetley's
tea-folk hung up their teapots.
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