Mr Cosmo

Picking up from the thread about Marianne Stone and her husband Peter Noble...

I'm so glad to see other people remember 'Movie-Go-Round' from Sunday afternoon radio in the 1960s. In the absence of TV shows covering new movies - I think there was only CINEMA from Granada TV with various hosts including Michael Scott, Bamber Gascoigne, Derek Granger, Clive James and of course Michael Parkinson who usually went on about "Singin' In The Rain".

Movie-Go-Round had not only interviews but gave you complete audio scenes from films so you could suss out whether or not they were worth going to see. Peter Haigh usually added some linking dialogue and comments. Peter Noble had all the news and gossip from the British scene. He was also featured in the ABC Film Review in the early 1960s in a 'Beat The Expert" feature, and he also set the questions for a film quiz that used to go out on BBC1 late on Monday nights round about 1973 - can't remember the title but Jan Stirling and Vincent Price were in it.

Sadly over the years they chopped 'Movie-Go-Round' about from its steady 3:00 slot after Clitheroe Kid, Round The Horne etc and at one point put half teh show on at 3 and the other half on at 9:30. Not sure when it tailed off but I know it died with a whimper rather than a bang. I suppose the nearest we have to it nowadays is Mark Kermode's film reviews on Radio 5 on Fruday afternoons at 3.
Anyway - I loved listening to the show and to this day when I hear 'The Carousel Waltz' - I don't think of CAROUSEL, I think of 'Movie-Go-Round'!

(Re Peter Haigh - not sure if he ever recovered from the mickey take on 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' when they were spoofing an awards ceremony and said "And now the Peter Haigh award for the most boring man on the radio...)

orpheum

Peter Haigh also used to present a 30 minute programme when he would narrate a condensed version of a film.This would not always be a recent film.I remember,as i still have the tape where he did The Jolson Story,which went out sometime in the 6os probably to coincide with its re release.I ended up seeing that film 12 times.Anyway i have fond memories of both him and Peter Haigh and as i suggested earlier if you go to British Pathe you can download P[ETER Nobles film shows from the 1950s.