RADIO APPEARANCES



All listings broadcast in the UK, except as noted.
Maroon colored titles indicate shows in which Petula was a series regular.

THE EIGHTIES

1980

PETULA AT DRURY LANE
Capital Radio

6/5/80

Excerpts from Petula's 4 May, Drury Lane concert.

UK Tour Concert Programme


Drury Lane Concert Excerpts

  1. With a Little Luck
  2. Don't Sleep in the Subway
  3. Something
  4. Stevie Wonder Medley
  5. I Know a Place
  6. On With the Show
  7. This is My Song
  8. How Are Things in Glocca Morra
  9. I Couldn't Live Without Your Love
  10. Day and Night
  11. Remember it All
  12. My Love
  13. Downtown

1981

Radio 2 Interview
BBC Radio 2

18/3/81

Interview.

THOSE MAGICAL MOVIE MUSICALS
BBC Radio 2

5/8/80

Goodbye Mr Chips starring Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark.

KALIEDOSCOPE
BBC Radio 4 fm

18/8/81

Chris Powling reviews the new stage production of The Sound of Music, starring PETULA CLARK at the Apollo Victoria in London.

WOMAN'S HOUR
BBC Radio 4 FM

23/12/81

Introduced by Sue MacGregor. Including Guest of the Week: Petula Clark.
(Petula Clark is in The Sound of Music at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, London.)

PETULA CLARK
BBC Radio 2

25/12/81

Presented an hour of her favourite Christmas music, intersperced with anecdotes: Joy to the World-Joan Sutherland ~ Christmas for Cowboys-John Denver ~ Sunnybank-Chichester Choir ~ Sleighride/ Love is a Song (from Bambi) ~ Gaudete_Cymbrn Welsh Choir ~ It Was a Glad Morning -Combined Welsh Choirs ~ Ding Dong Merrily on High-Morriston Orpheus Choir ~ The Christmas List -Peggy Lee ~ Deck the Halls - The Muppets ~ The First Noel -Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra ~ Jingle Bells/The First Snowfall of the Winter/Let it Snow - The Carpenters ~ White Christmas - Bing Crosby & Marjorie Reynolds ~ The Three Drovers - The Adelaide Singers ~ The Lonely Goatherd (Petula & Sound of Music cast ~ Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland.

1982

BE MY GUEST

3/2/82

From her dressing room at the Apollo (during the Sound of Music run) Petula took over the regular weekly half-hour spot to play a selection of her favorite music: Don't Smoke in Bed -Peggy Lee; New York, New York-Frank Sinatra; Day and Night Theme -Eric Satie; What a Fool Believes-Doobie Brothers; Easy to Remember-John Coltrane; I Will Survive-Gladys Knight ~ Excerpt from Petruska by Stravinsky; La Foule (The Crowd)-Edith Piaf.

DESERT ISLAND DISCS
BBC Radio 4 FM

6/5/80

For the second time, Petula played selections from the recordings she would take with her to a deserted island.
With Roy Plomley.

JOHN DUNN
BBC Radio 2

15/7/82

With guest Petula Clark.

CHRISTMAS '42


USA
25/12/83
A nostalgic medley of radio from 40 years ago, presented by Christopher Andrew including Petula ClarK's radio début.

1983

PROFILE ON PETULA CLARK


USA
8/28/83

3-hour profile hosted by Dick Clark. Show included recent interviews.

PETULA CLARK IN CONCERT
BBC Radio 2

10/9/83

Concert Highlights. Recorded 6 February, 1983.
Aka 40TH Anniversary Concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, from the Royal Albert Hall.

Concert highlights were released on vinyl in 1983
Music for Pleasure (MFP 5636)


The CD was released in 1991
EMI Compacts for Pleasure (EMI CDB-7-97493-2)


A limited number of CDs were also re-released in 2008 and only available at concerts from Allpet Productions.


  1. Overture
  2. Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic
  3. Don't Sleep In The Subway
  4. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
  5. This Is My Song
  6. Out Here On My Own
  7. Colour My World
8. Stevie Wonder Medley:
     I Wish You Are The Sunshine Of My Life, Isn't She Lovely
 9. Music People
10.Life Is A Song,
11. Could It Be Magic
12. My Love / Downtown

Encore: On With The Show

1984

NIGHTS AT THE PARIS OLYMPIA
BBC Radio 2

16/11/843

The first of six programmes in which Daniel Pageon celebrates 30 years of international variety at this famous theatre. This week: The 1950s with musical contributions from Gilbert Becaud, Edith Piaf, Petula Clark.

1985

GLORIA HUNNIFORD
BBC Radio 1

19/3/85

Interview.

1987

STAR CHOICE
BBC Radio 2

25/5/87

The little lady with a lot of charm talks with enthusiasm about her friends and favourite artists, and plays for you an interesting cross-section of music.

Star Choice





  • Old Devil Moon - Lena Horne
  • We're Gonna Change the World - Matt Monro
  • Minute By Minute - Doobie Brothers
  • I Can't Stop Loving You - Count Basie Orchestra
  • Chain Reaction - Diana Ross
  • Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
  • For All We Know - The Carpenters
  • You Let Yourself Go - Charles Aznavour
  • Staying Alive - Bee Gees
  • He's a Tramp - Peggy Lee
  • Every Breath You Take - Police
  • Disco Downtown - Petula Clark




Pet Sounds

     When Petula Clark prsents her Star Choice on Spring Bank Holiday (1.0) she'll be playing some of her favourite records and talking of the many friends she has made during her long and varied career - Lena Horne, Diana Ross, Karen Carpenter and Charles Aznavour among them.
      It was BBC producer Cecil Madden who gave Petula her first braodcast in 1942 and she later became his protegée. With his boss, assistant controller of programmes S.J. de Lotbiniere, he provided a fund that paid for her education and for singing and dancing lessons.
      They also bought her a piano and helped her with stage clothes - though she was not to find out about her secret benefactors until a few years ago.
      Cecil will be 85 this year and recalls their first meeting with pride and clarity. 'She'd written in for an audition at the Royalty Theatre, and when we asked her what she could do she said she'd like to sing with the orchestra . I think that the band were playing cards at the time and didn't feel much like making music for this little girl. With great reluctance they struck up "Mighty like a Rose" and she sang like an angel. They all
applauded her.
      "I asked her what else she could do and she said, 'Impressions.' 'What impressions?' 'Oh anyone -- Vera Lynn, Sophie Tucker, Anne Shelton, Jimmy Durante.' And then, my God, she did the lot. She was quite brilliant. I knew right away she was going to be a big star."
      Petula had by then started to give troop concerts and she became a regular broadcaster for Madden. In December 1942, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the BBC Empire Service which he'd founded, he put her on a glittering bill with Arthur Askey, Dickie Murdoch, Vera Lynn, and Elsie and Doris Waters (Gert and Daisy.)
      Later he was to give her many of her early breaks in television though his financial involvement finished when she got her first film contract. It wasn't until a 1982 biography of her revealed him as her early benefactor that Petula herself found out about it. "There was no need for her to know," he says. "But I'm glad to say that she still keeps in touch and came to my 80th birthday party. She's promised to come to my 85th in November."

WNBC Radio
WNBC Radio

8/17/87

Interview with DJ Alan Coombs. I Couldn't Live Without Your Love.

1988

BBC RADIO 1 TOP 40
BBC Radio 1

Sundays in December 1988 & early January 1989

Presented by Bruno Brookes. Petula was regularly featured in the UK Top 40 with Downtown '88 peaking at number 10 on the 24th December, 1988 chart.

PHILIP SCHOFIELD
BBC Radio 1

December 1988

Petula and Kim Wilde were interviewed live by DJ Philip on his Sunday show before the announcement of the new chart where Downtown 88 was rising. (Note: Philip was a great champion of Downtown '88. Often referring to her as "the super fab, hip, and trendy" Petula Clark.)

1989

FROM PÉTAIN TO POMPIDOU
BBC Radio 3

4/2/89

Crossing the Border sung by Petula and other French stars.

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