On December 3, 2003, I did what was somewhere between my 45th & 49th episode of Self Help Radio*. The theme was heaven. My show in those days was an hour long, & not terribly well-constructed**. I didn't, for example, have music under my voice during airbreaks. In a real sense, I was still "finding my voice" for the show.
I believe I have a tape of that show, but I didn't think about playing it till just now, & I don't have time to try to find it & digitize it. Too bad! It would be interesting to listen to it!***
In 2008, when the show was six years old, I hit upon the idea of revisiting an old theme on my anniversary. So when this, my twelfth anniversary, rolled around, & I was looking at old playlists, it hit me that I could re-explore a theme & also do something I love to do (I've only done it once before, though): have a show where all the songs on the show have the same title. It'll happen tomorrow: the show will revisit the theme "Heaven" & all the songs will be called "Heaven." Yay!
It's on Friday morning from 7 to 9am on 88.1 fm in Lexington or online at WRFL dot fm. If you're celebrating the anniversary early, & aren't able to wake up early enough, I understand, & I'll put the show on my website later in the day.
Twelve years! I can't imagine there'll be twelve more.
* I don't know how to count which shows are official shows. At that time, there was a show called "The Pilot Show" the hour before SHR. I was the person tasked with being there to watch over new & trainee programmers. Oftentimes, they would cancel at the last minute, so I made it a habit to have an extra themed show prepared in the case that that occurred, which it did somewhat often. But do I count those? If so, 49th is the more or less right number.
** Yeah, yeah.
*** For interesting, read: painful.
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