Oxford Road Show (also known as ORS) was a weekly music and current affairs magazine, broadcast on Fridays on BBC Two between 1981 and 1985. The name of the show derives from the location of the BBC studios in Oxford Road, Manchester from where the show went out live.
In 1984 and 1985 the show was re-named with the more snappy ORS 84 and ORS 85 respectively. Radio Times billed ORS 84 as "Channel 2's live electronic magazine".
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The only appearance of Peel on the early evening BBC2 programme of the 1980s was an interview he conducted with the editors of The End fanzine, broadcast on 21 January 1983. [1]
Show host Peter Powell introduced Peel as, "a man whose taste in music is outmatched only by Kenny Dalglish's goal scoring ability".
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