In an earlier instalment of this series I promised to devote a post to Dilly Barlow's long-vanished Radio 4 programme Friday Treat but - as is so often the way - I passed on to other matters and forgot all about it.
So here is my attempt to make amends and offer a belated but heartfelt thank you to Ms Barlow: her radio tenure, at least in the role of DJ, may have been short-lived in comparison to the likes of Hubert Gregg and Benny Green, then seemingly permanent fixtures on the sister BBC station Radio 2, but her musical choices had a profound influence on me.
