It's a warm Sunday evening in 1988. The engineers have finished their work, and Monday morning's breakfast show is due to be the first programme from BBC Radio Lancashire's new home on Darwen Street.
The BT engineers have switched the lines over and everything is ready. The Motorway Show, which Paul O'Gorman had been presenting on weekend evenings during expansion work on the M6 had been postponed for the week to allow the changeover work to go ahead. But Paul got a call to come in and do the show as normal, but from the new studios. It was a chance to make sure it all worked before breakfast.
The (lousy, sorry) photo shows the Mk 3 desk at Radio Lancs taking control for the very first time. North West Tonight came the following day for the official switch on, and made this report.
Paul is still at the station and has presented and produced most of the programmes there in the intervening years.
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