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Gunn's Grotto is a two hour, themed radio show. I'm Peter Gunn, your host and when I inherited this crumbling mansion in North London from an uncle I didn't even know, I found a treasure trove of records and tapes in dusty boxes amongst the Jukeboxes and Pinball machines, in the scary cellar that I call....GUNN'S GROTTO. I am playing Rock'n'Roll and Rockabilly, Doo Wop, Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Pop, Psych, Beat, Country, Bluegrass and Blues .....and Funny and Weird Stuff. NOTHING is off the t ...
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Boston Blackie is a fictional character who has been on both sides of the law. As originally created by author Jack Boyle, he was a safecracker, a hardened criminal who had served time in a California prison. Prowling the underworld as a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television, the detective Boston Blackie was "an enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend." The Boston Blackie radio series, starring Chester Morris, began June 23, 1944, on NBC as ...
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You can be sure to turn heads when you cruise around town in your gold Caddie, but if you just need to get from A to B, there are hundreds of other automobiles that will do. Most of them can be found in Gunn's Grotto tonight and we'll be test driving them all. Come down to Gunn's Grotto with me Peter Gunn tonight and lets go motorvating! As well as…
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Are women and men different? Well yes, and no... The answer seems to lie in the wiring of the brains, as you will discover tonight when we try to unravel this sticky conundrum in the humble, yet well informed basement that I call Gunn's Grotto. Come down to Gunn's Grotto with me Peter Gunn tonight - where gender will be on the agenda, As usual ther…
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They're two things we all do, but not usually at the same time. If we do, it can get messy... But if you feel like trying some eating and sleeping at the same time, come down to Gunn's Grotto with me Peter Gunn tonight for some simultaneous noshing and kipping. The Reverend Horton Heat will be on hand to Teach Us How To Eat, Jimmy Rogers will descr…
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I looked upon the body as a laboratory - I used to throw in this chemical and then that one to see what would happen; I was intrigued by that, but the experiment had to end.' (Keith Richards 2005) Keith today could be any kind and wise old grandad, albeit with a wicked sense of humour. Go back 60 years though and this was a very different fish. A b…
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Towards the end of the Small Faces career, Steve Marriott was hating being a pop star and tried to lead the band down a path towards the heavier rock sound he would later achieve with Humble Pie. Gunn's Grotto opens with the Small Faces "Me, You and Us Too", unreleased at the time, which sets the formula for the rest of tonight's show. So why don't…
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Yes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder but tonight in Gunn's Grotto everything is pretty. Pretty Babys, Pretty Girls, Pretty (and Purdie) Boys, Pretty Mamas, Pretty Papas, Pretty Faces, Pretty Things, a Pretty Ballerina and a Pretty Good Singer, Pretty Songs and Pretty Words will all be with us tonight. Come down to Gunn's Grotto with me Peter G…
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Some words are more important than others. And they may not be the words we say, but the words we don't say... Come down to Gunn's Grotto with me Peter Gunn tonight - and we'll have words. Tonight we'll be travelling to the Outskirts Of Infinity to hear... The Unspoken Word A Four Letter Word Pretty Words 10000 Words in a Cardboard Box ...and even …
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At this time of year everybody's doing it. Popping the question, jumping the broomstick, tying the knot and getting hitched. Yes, wedding bells are ringing tonight in Gunn's Grotto and its too late to back out now. So come down to Gunn's Grotto with me Peter Gunn tonight for a wedding wing-ding. Did you hear about Caldonia's Wedding Day, Big Bopper…
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I know there was something I wanted to tell you - but I've forgotten what it was... Remembering things is obviously important but psychologists tell us that forgetting is too. Put very simply, it seems we need to constantly delete unnecessary files to make room for new memories. And unpleasant memories are far better forgotten to avoid the eternal …
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In order to arrive somewhere we have to leave somewhere else. Sometimes that can be difficult or painful but, unless you are the elderly woman who lived and died in the house she was born in, in Enfield North London, who promised herself that she would one day go shopping in Oxford Street, Central London - and never did, it's something we have to l…
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Gunn's Grotto radio shows can be heard all over the world, so tonight we're inviting the whole wide world to come down the rickety stairs to join us. It'll be a bit of a squeeze but if we all budge up I'm sure we can make room... Come down to Gunn's Grotto with me Peter Gunn tonight ... and join the rest of the whole wide world. In the immortal wor…
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Tonight in Gunn's Grotto we will be initiated into the new craze which is sweeping the planet...mindlessness. Yes, you heard that right, it's the art of losing your mind - everyone's doing it. Come down to Gunn's Grotto with me Peter Gunn tonight - for your two hour mindless experience. If you can just Get Your Mind Out Of The Gutter, we'll go on a…
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Did I ever tell you I call my girlfriend's father daddy-O? And I don't dig squares man...they're a drag. Tonight the Grotto is rammed with beards, sandals, black roll necks and slacks and we're experimenting with spirituality, drugs and sexuality. We dig literature, poetry, music and painting, we have an anti-materialistic lifestyle and we reject t…
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