The Bike Show returns after a winter break to the news that the Grand Depart of the 2007 Tour De France will be in London!! Featuring the formal presentation by ASO’s Jean-Marie Leblanc and a press conference by London Mayor Ken Livingstone. Also in the show is Kieron Yates’s impressionistic and thoughtful account of a [...]
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21 March 2005 Show: Pour Un Maillot Jaune
October 7, 2005 · Jack Thurston
Spotlight on a classic 1965 film about the Tour De France “Pour Un Maillot Jaune” (dir. Claude Lelouch). Guest in the studio is William Greswell. MP3
18 July 2005: Le Tour De France
August 13, 2005 · Jack Thurston
As we enter the final week of Le Tour De France 2005, I am joined in the studio by Bike Show regular William Greswell. Interviews with Guy Andrews, editor of Road Cycling UK and Rouleur magazine. Also talking with Kent Benson who is watching roadside in the Alps. Kent runs If Hannibal Had, organising cycling [...]
18 April 2005: Paris-Roubaix Classic
August 4, 2005 · Jack Thurston
Special on-location feature on the 2005 Paris-Roubaix classic race (L’Enfer du Nord) with William Greswell. Look ahead to this month’s 11th birthday of London’s Critical Mass bike ride. MP3 Track list: Cars – Desperate Bicycles Coeur Vagabond – unknown accordionist Triplets of Belleville – The Triplets of Belleville Rockin’ Bicycle – Fats Domino
25 July Show: Johnny Green
July 28, 2005 · Jack Thurston
In the studio is Johnny Green, former road manager of the Clash, talking about his other passion in life, Le Tour De France. In his new book ‘Push Yourself Just a Little Bit More’, Green gives a vivid and at times hilarious account of life backstage at Le Tour in 2003 and 2004 and finds [...]
