Does anyone remember two way family favourites?

I was born in a BMH abroad as Dad was posted there. Dad wrote to Family Favourites and his request was read out, the other presenter then said, that's a coincidence, I have a request here from the Grandparents for the same family. They played "When My Little Girl Is Smiling" and the local newspaper back home sent a reporter to my Grandparent's house. Unfortunately, Nan and Granddad were both out and my Uncle, who answered the door, claimed he knew nothing about me or the request! He never lived that one down.

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Oh I have just looked up Eric Fleming who played Gil Favor and he died at 41 by drowning in a river.How sad

I loved Gil Favour as a fourteen year old does. A poster of him above my bed.

Polomint there is a range of rugged leather handbags/tote bags called Rowdy bags. If I didn't have far too many bags...collected over the years... I would be so tempted to buy one.

Ahh wonderful memories in this post. My mum always had the radio on and it was the background to my growing up. I remember most of these shows plus Mrs Dale's diary, the Archers and Workers playtime.

Two-way Family Favourites - oh yes, where on earth was RAF Akrotiri I thought to my 7-year old self. It sparked my interest in geography and travel and I did eventually find Akrotiri on that beautiful island of Cyprus.

We were only talking with friends about two-way family favourites at the weekend, and about Junior Choice. For years I thought I had misheard a line in a children’s song about ‘cigarette trees’. But I became so intrigued that I googled it - I wasn’t wrong! It was Big Rock Candy Mountain by Burl Ives.

Like others, I have very happy memories of hearing the radio in the kitchen while my mum was cooking Sunday lunch. We all had chores to do on Sundays and would be singing along to the songs.

Once I became a teenager, I would get together with my friends to listen to the chart show in the afternoon, clustered round a transistor radio to see what was going to be number one that week.

I loved the songs like the one about the mouse who lived in a windmill, and one called 'Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer' (or similar).
Also remember thinking how mysterious all those strange BFPO addresses sounded - almost like a code!^

I can still sing those songs.
And "You're a pink toothbrush, I'm a blue toothbrush"

The BFPO numbers were indeed a postcode 😀

I stand corrected*helterskelter1*. Rowdy Yates it was indeed. Somehow I got my mums wee dog rusty mixed up with rowdy haha

Just thinking about this programme and I can smell Bisto and roasting beef; it was always my job to lay the table, and I can remember being told off for dancing round the table with knives in my hand; I loved the songs like the one about the mouse who lived in a windmill, and one called 'Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer' (or similar).
Also remember thinking how mysterious all those strange BFPO addresses sounded - almost like a code!

I loved it Two Way Family Favourites together with the smell of our roast dinner cooking.

Not Rusty but Rowdy Yates. And Gil .Favor was his boss. I can see them both now.

I probably fell a bit in love with Clint in Rawhide. It peaked in The Man Withkut a Name and Dirty Harry
Yes, I know ……

Clint Eastwood as rusty in rawhide I think and then there was cheyenne( don't know the spelling) with Clint walker and wagon train. I loved the cowboys, they don't make them the same nowadays

I know all the words to Rawhide still from Children's Choice.
"Keep them dogies moving". Didn't have any idea what a dogie was!

Edmundo Ross. And Manuel and the Music from the Mountains.

What I would do for a Sunday afternoon with Mum and Dad.

The other side of the world used to feel so far away in those days. It took so much longer to fly to Australia etc.
I always thought the song, ‘Hands, hands across the sea’ was always a warming song

I thought camp coffee was exotic due to the label of a soldier and an Indian serving his coffee. The coffee was actual chicory which I would not like now however

Yes it was a staple part of Sunday in our house while I was growing up.

A wonderful programme which we regularly listened to during Sunday lunch. When my husband got posted to Hong Kong we met the lovely June Armstrong Wright, who presented that end, when we joined the local amdram group. She was a very talented lady.

I’ve loved this thread. Does anyone remember sitting round the wireless, either Thursday or Friday night listening to The Day of the Triffids. I used to go to the corner shop and buy chocolate coated digestive biscuits and my brother and I would eat them with a glass of milk, absolutely terrified!

You could send an airmail letter addressed BFPO+a number and know it would be delivered, wherever in the world and to RN ships at sea too.
British Forces Post Office

Music for all our troops, navy and RAF all over the world.

BFPO British Forces Posted Overseas. Always seemed by lots of requests for bases in Cyprus. I see the base at Akrotiri is still important and being used in the present problems in Dubai etc.

Yes l remember it well when l was about 7 or 8 in the early sixties.
My father loved it and my mother hated it. She couldn't stand Vera Lynn.

Mum was usually in the kitchen on Sunday morning getting our Sunday Roast Dinner sorted. We would then go around and see out Gran every Sunday.

I remember some of the record requests that were big at the time such as

76 Trombones Edmund Hockeridge

There's a whole in my bucket, Dear Lisa, Dear All Lisa

Oh Soldier,Soldier won't you marry me.

Scottish Soldier. Andy Stewart

And various Mario Lanza, Alma Cogan, Kay Sisters songs.

Lovely childhood and family memories.

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Chardy

RAF Akrotiri used to get mentioned occasionally on Two Way Family Favourites. It's only this year that I've learned how it's spelt! I used to think it was Aqua-teeri

Me too 😀

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Same here. I know all the words to sll the Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como Andy Williams songs (and more) just from hearing my mother singing along after Mass on Sundays as she prepared lunch.

Lovely songs. Everyone told a story. And you could hear all the words too.

Later that night I'd be listening under the bedcothes to Radio Caroline and the Top20! Late 60's. I was about 12 and loved the mellow voices of Tony Blackburn and Simon Dee.

Memories!
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