-Updated 13 October 2005- TALKRADIO AUDIO PAGE (1997 to 1999) All audio samples are in MP3 format. You'll need a player such as winamp to listen. Some samples may have been edited for time. CAESER THE GEEZER FIRST SHOW - SUBMITTED BY PETER Technically not Tommy related, but popular with enough people to host. First half hour of Caesar's first ever show on TalkRadio. UPDATED: Better quality version, with Spiritualist talk on the end. Windows Media Audio 8 meg (approx 33 mins) ARCHIVED 1995 SHOW - SUBMITTED BY PETER Talk Radio "angry hour" show from June 1995 Windows Media Audio 8.6 meg (approx 24 mins) Better quality version of Paul's call from above archive. Windows Media Audio 2 meg (approx 3 mins) SHY PEOPLE ARE SELFISH - SUBMITTED BY PETER Tommy has a cure for shyness, a complete show from March 1995. Windows Media Audio 14.5 meg (approx 40 mins) TOMMY TALKS...GAY - SUBMITTED BY PETER Is Tommy Gay? If so, this caller doesn't want to know... Includes Peter Deeley. Windows Media Audio 890k (approx 6 mins) TOMMY TALKS THE END OF EVERYTHING - SUBMITTED BY PETER Archived Talk Radio excerpt from Feb 1998 -- Tommy reacts to tension in the Gulf. Windows Media Audio 578k (approx 4 mins) TOMMY TALKS VEGETARIANS - SUBMITTED BY PETER Archived Talk Radio excerpt from July 1997 outlining vegetarian competitiveness. Windows Media Audio 144k (21 seconds) David works in a slaughter house and he's no vegetarian!!! Windows Media Audio 309k (approx 2 mins) Angry animal rights/vegetarian caller takes Tommy on talking for the animals. Windows Media Audio 763k (approx 5 mins) COWBOY CULTURE Archived Talk Radio show 1998. Tommy celebrates Cowboy Culture. MP3 Format (7 meg) -- Right click image & "save target as"... 40 minutes. Care of The Tommy Boyd Shrine Archives. THE END OF THE WORLD - FEATURING SIMON FROM HAMPSHIRE Archived Talk Radio show 1998. Tommy talks about the end of the world, venturing issues of religion, faith, and homosexuals. Features popular verbal tyrant, Simon from Hampshire. MP3 Format (8 meg) -- Right click image & "save target as"... 44 minutes. Care of The Tommy Boyd Shrine Archives. TOMMY POSES THE QUESTION: WHO NEEDS THEIR LEGS? Archived Talk Radio show 1998. Tommy talks about the uselessness of legs MP3 Format (6 meg) -- Right click image & "save target as"... 33 minutes. Care of The Tommy Boyd Shrine Archives. THE HUMAN ZOO REMIX - BY DEREK Listen to an original and excellent "Human Zoo" soundmix compilation, to the song "Heroes". MP3 Format (3.4 meg) -- Right click image & "save target as"... approx 4 minutes. Care of Derek Steel, a regular message board contributor. TOMMY BEGS YOU TO SAVE A LIFE - HUMILIATE A SUNBATHER Archived Talk Radio show 1998. Tommy talks about the whole business of sunbathing... MP3 Format (7.7 meg) -- Right click image & "save target as"... 44 minutes. Care of The Tommy Boyd Shrine Archives. TOMMY BOYD TALKS DIARRHEA Archived Talk Radio show 1998. Tommy talks about the runs... From the bottom! MP3 Format (5 meg) -- Right click image & "save target as"... Approx 30 minutes. Care of The Tommy Boyd Shrine Archives. EXCLUSIVE: TOMMY BOYD TAKES ON THE WELSH Archived Talk Radio show 1997. Tommy challenges the Welsh on everything! MP3 Format (8 meg) -- Right click image & "save target as"... Approx 45 minutes. Care of The Tommy Boyd Shrine Archives. CELEBRITIES ON CHANNEL 5 DISCUSS TOMMY & ARNIE - THANKS TO ROBBO WEIGHTLIFTING: Tommy and Arnie weightlift a few decades ago. The celebrity commentators again aren't very flattering! Robbo records that the caption read: "Arnie has since starred in over 35 Hollywood films and became the Governor of California in 2003..."long pause... caption rolls away... Tommy Boyd works in local radio." File size: 775k (approx 50 seconds) MORE GLOBISH CALLS - SUBMITTED BY KEVIN RASHAD CALLS: Rashad from Sheffield calls talking about pronounciation of English. File size: 1.45 meg (approx 1 minute 30) JAZZ CALLS: Jazz calls in with a "very good" Indian accent -- or so he claims!!! File size: 2 meg (approx 2 minute 12) DEAFNESS - SUBMITTED BY KEVIN DEAFNESS PART 1: Don't shout, Tommy's whispering because he wants to talk sensitively about Deaf people... File size: 1.1 meg (approx 3 minutes) DEAFNESS PART 2: More sensitive talk about deaf people. Thanks to Kevin for the submissions!!! File size: 460k (approx 1 minute 20) ANGRY HOUR - SUBMITTED BY KEVIN FAYE CALLS: Lawn mowing on a Monday afternoon angers Faye... Don't mention the strimmers! File size: 720k (approx 2 minutes) GLOBISH - SUBMITTED BY KEVIN PROPOSITION PART 1: Tommy discusses the proposal that everyone will eventually speak English, but with an Indian accent... File size: 200k (approx 1 minute) PROPOSITION PART 2: Tommy outlines the proposition with further explanation. File size: 305k (approx 1 minute) VIMAL CALLS: Vimal is angered that Tommy is "taking the piss" out of Indian accents. File size: 700k (approx 2 mins) ICBAL CALLS: Icbal recommends the world speaks with a Mexican accent. File size: 800k (approx 2 mins) ANOTHER CALLER: More discussion on the topic with another caller... File size: 770k (approx 2 mins) RACHID CALLS: Rachid thinks selling the English language is ridiculous. File size: 440k (approx 2 mins) ALIENS - SUBMITTED BY KEVIN ALIENS: Aliens exist -- It's official! A rare gem from when the station was called "Talk Radio UK". File size: 910k (approx 2.5 minutes) ALL TIME CLASSIC HOUR - BULLFIGHTING 1998 BRING BACK BULLFIGHTING: An absolutely cracking hour of radio in which the proposition is put that Bullfighting should come back to the country. Bad language occasionally crops in, as passions are through the roof on what has to arguably be one of the best hours of Tommy's Talk Radio stint ever. File size: 4.9 meg (approx 42 minutes) TOMMY BOYD A BASTARD??? HOW DARE THEY! CELEBRITIES TALK BOYD: Robbo sends in an audio extract from a recent Channel 5 programme in which Z list celebrities were discussing the Wide Awake Club. They weren't very flattering about our man Boyd, but they're twats themselves anyway. File size: 90k (approx 20 seconds) RARE TALK RADIO TRAILER RARE TALK RADIO TRAILER 1995: Tommy Boyd fan Matt Hirst sends the Shrine a rare Talk Radio trailer from 1995 File size: 190k (approx 30 seconds) RESTORED AUDIO - FROM OLDER VERSION OF THE SHRINE FORESTS PART 1: A monologue from an absolutely classic hour of Boyd from 1997. The worlds forests are disappearing, so what? FORESTS PART 2: The second part of the monologue from this classic show. FORESTS CALLER 1: The first call to the Forests hour. Don't mention the oxygen argument... FORESTS CALLER 2: The second caller to the Forests hour is up for a telling off too... FORESTS CALLERS 3&4: Tommy's not budging, and his arguments are undefeated... DOG TESTING: Another cracking and very rare 1997 monologue: Dogs were sent to us for experiments, that is what they are for. FRANK: A classic caller to the show, Frank from Newscastle, is getting the third degree from Tommy about what he looks like... THE MEANING OF LIFE: Tommy knows the meaning of life, which pisses this caller off, and leads to Tommy calling him a TWAT at 3 in the afternoon... SLURPING: Tommy's received a death threat for slurping his tea. Mr Jones calls to agree with the fact that it is disgusting... THE NIGHT: Another rare 1997 monologue. Who needs the night time? BONFIRE NIGHT BONFIRES: To celebrate bonfire night here's a 1998 show celebrating bonfires. Fred in Burnley's call is a classic. There's also a Christmas celebration toward the end. Enjoy! File Size: 3.1 meg (27 minutes) HAY FEVER - FANTASTIC!!! HEATHER: On an hour celebrating hay fever, Heather calls and wishes Tommy much ill-fortune... File Size: 490k THE HAY FEVER SONG: Tommy and a female colleague do a stonking rendition of a famous Grease song... File Size: 150k TOMMY BOYD TRAILS SCHIZOPHRENIA: A classic trail for an afternoon hour on Schizophrenia! File Size: 60K PMT: A classic trail for an afternoon hour on PMT/PMS! File Size: 50K NEWSAGENTS: Absolutely cracking trail for an hour on Newsagents: Satan's Sperm! File Size: 110K MENTAL HEALTH: An amusing trail promoting an hour on the subject of mental health. File Size: 60K RED INDIANS: Give Yorkshire to the Red Indians - Genius! File Size: 60K WONDERFUL HOUR 1: An uplifting trailer for the Wonderful Hour -- Autumn! File Size: 90K WONDERFUL HOUR 2: Another terrific trailer for the Wonderful Hour -- Plumbing! File Size: 70K HEATED ARGUMENT SECTION No audio samples of Boyd would be complete without hostile engagements. To the death it always is, and our man is yet to be out-gunned. KOSOVA: Steve from North London calls during the Angry Hour, on the premise he was going to talk about students parking on pavements. Instead he talks about Kosova, which Tommy won't let him get away with... MINORITY GROUPS: Tommy would like to be in a minority group. On the other hand, a disgruntled Scottish caller believes that Tommy should be discussing something more relevant. Bad move... FATHER CHRISTMAS EXISTS: Tommy believes in Santa. However, Joyce from Sussex is having none of it, and prefers believing in more realistic icons such as Jesus Christ... THE BATTLE-AXE SECTION Hear a selection of old and bewildered women, that simply don't get the show's premise... FANTASTIC stuff! WHAT DID CHURCHILL EVER DO?: In an hour in which Tommy revealed "the truth" behind Winston Churchill, Joan from Leeds (protectorate of the late Prime Minister) voices her discontent, and battle commences... BALDNESS: The hour was based on the premise that going bald is far worse than menstruating. Unfortunately Mary from Hailsowen thought the hour was about something else. Click the icon to find out what... HOMEOPATHY: When it was suggested that the ownership of cats could be linked to pre-senile dementia (PSD), Tommy suggested people eat their cats, creating a homeopathic cure. Edna from Hampshire was outraged... - includes an extract of Edna from the James Whale show HUMOUR SECTION As the heading suggests, this section contains some of the more humorous calls, shows, and callers, ever to embrace the Tommy Boyd show. MALCOLM'S: The topic is the name Malcolm and what it must mean to be called that name. In an intellectually stimulating assessment, Tommy sets the bait... POOR PEOPLE: When asking for the poorest listener out there, Leslie from Hertforshire calls in nominating her husband and his childhood. However, hilarity ensues when Tommy takes her to task... DENNIS SKINNER: During an hour precipitated by the Torries taking the p*ss out of Dennis Skinner's accent, Marageret in Devonreveals that her mother was in a ballroom dancing competition with Dennis' father. Wait until you hear what the prize was... TRAIL SECTION An institution in themselves are Tommy's 30 second trails, advertising the topic for discussion that day. MIXED TRAILS: Six mixed and different trails including,Cartoons, Ceilings, Vasectomy's, Elton John, Welsh People, and Bullfighting. MISC AUDIO SAMPLES CHRISTMAS: Taken from a Christmas show in 1997, Tommy's opening monologue captures the spirit of the season in the middle of November. RENA HATES CHRISTMAS: Following a couple of Christmas songs, Rena from Brighton calls to fight against Christmas on behalf of Turkeys. Classic! DANGEROUS: Oh my, this dear old lady doesn't know she's talking to Tommy Boyd. And she has her own theories on why our man was sacked from Talk Radio: because he was a danger to children... JESUS: In an hour devoted to the revelation that Jesus was half-Italian, John demands to know why Tommy won't damn other religions, whilst refusing to believe what it says in the Talmud... THE BEST OF THE WONDERFUL HOUR: A selection of calls from Tommy Boyd's Wonderful hour, from the funny, to the emotional. THE HERON CALL: One of Tommy's favourite calls of all time to the wonderful hour. Essential listening.