Episodes

Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
Episode 55 of Excellent Eighties. A 12" extended remix from a band I saw live in concert this week, Synth Pop Sunday features a weather forecast and a biology lesson & the cheese & Crackers features more strange weather and a song from the stage. There might be a song you've never heard of, you'll just have to wait and see.

Sunday Oct 12, 2025
Sunday Oct 12, 2025
Episode 54 of Excellent Eighties, Salt 'N Pepa avoid arrest, The Human League are showing us some Love Action in Synth Pop Sunday, Living in A Box perform their ode to The Big Bad Wolf and there might be a song you've never heard of, you'll just have to wait and see!

Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
Episode 53 of Excellent Eighties, featuring a Norwegian 12" extended remix, a Dr and a Welsh new wave band for Synth Pop Sunday, some French cheese and an unlikely duet for your cheese and crackers. There might even be two songs that you've never heard of, you'll just have to wait and see.

Thursday Oct 02, 2025
Thursday Oct 02, 2025
Episode 52 of Excellent Eighties, Get Ready for an Extended 12" Remix from the PWL stable, Synth Pop Sunday features a New Song that's over 40 years old, apparently eating cheese before bedtime makes you have dreams about poisonous crackers & there's a song you might have never heard of, you'll just have to wait and see.

Friday Sep 26, 2025
Friday Sep 26, 2025
Episode 51 of Excellent Eighties, featuring tobogganing siblings, an ex-Ultravox member for Synth Pop Sunday, it's a Sign of The Times for the cheese & crackers this episode, there's a flop from Diana Ross, and what can YOU do in 2 minutes 41 seconds?

Friday Sep 19, 2025
Friday Sep 19, 2025
Episode 50 of Excellent Eighties - We Are Golden!
A bumper-just-under-two-hours special of Excellent Eighties shenanigans, part 1 being the A-sides and part 2 being the B-sides. Just listen to the first hour with all your regular features, then flip the episode over and listen to all the features again but this time with B-sides!

Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Episode 49 of Excellent Eighties - featuring a 12" extended remix from a distant planet, also in orbit is the 80's cracker & the cheese is brought to you by someone who sounds like she should be a good Neighbour. There might be a song you've never heard of by a letter of the alphabet & Synth Pop Sunday is brought to you from a cafe & a song featured every week on Top of The Pops.

Monday Sep 01, 2025
Monday Sep 01, 2025
Episode 48 of Excellent Eighties - featuring a 12" which might not be to everyone's taste, a sensible chatty cheese, a wedding staple for the cracker, a pair of legs & a synth pop duo for Synth Pop Sunday, a feline 80's Blockbuster track and finally a track you might have never heard of, you'll just have to wait and see. Apologies, this episode is 4 minutes over the hour, hope you'll forgive me!

Sunday Aug 24, 2025
Sunday Aug 24, 2025
Episode 47 of Excellent Eighties featuring a 12" remix from "He was gonna chuck a bottle, he was gonna chuck a can, chuck a can", your 80's cheese and crackers are draped in some Black Lace, Synth Pop Sunday features a humorous maths lesson & the track you might have never heard of is from a theatre of percussion. Lots of other random Excellent Eighties tracks in this episode too, including a full on instrumental. Enjoy!

Tuesday Aug 19, 2025
Tuesday Aug 19, 2025
Episode 46 of Excellent Eighties. Featuring a 12" remix from Gary Numan's band members, there's some New Kids on the Block (of cheese), Synth Pop Sunday features a synth-pop duo and some Confusion & the track you might have never heard of is from a band you WILL have heard of.
