Newquay
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Sep 11, 2026
Simon MayoHOST
Anyway, it comes from Steve.
Simon MayoHOST
"Dear Simon and the jury, this relates to an event around about 1979 in Boots the Chemist in Newquay in Cornwall.
Simon MayoHOST
I am Steve, my real name, and I would have been aged about twenty-one at the time, married to my first wife, Mary, not real name.
Simon MayoHOST
Anyway, a friend of ours, Debs, again real name, got married, and we came up with a brilliant idea of buying them a suitcase to use for their eventual honeymoon.
SusieHOST
Mm
Simon MayoHOST
... for a bit of a giggle." Thinking of the Madness song there.
Simon MayoHOST
"My wife dispatched me to go into Newquay to purchase the said party poppers that pop in the night.
Simon MayoHOST
I arrived at Boots, and gingerly wandered around the store-
Peter MarshallGUEST
It's probably 93, I think, 94 maybe.
Peter MarshallGUEST
And we were sort of driving through Newquay.
Peter MarshallGUEST
I think it's Newquay.
Peter MarshallGUEST
Yeah.
Peter MarshallGUEST
And we drove past.
Richard BrodieGUEST
And we got beat 2-0.
Richard BrodieGUEST
We had a night out in Newquay.
Richard BrodieGUEST
And on the way back on the bus... a group of Geordie lads going back after an FA Trophy result waiting for the off-license to open at half past nine to get us back to Newcastle so this is half nine in the morning I get a phone call at nine o'clock at night after sitting on the bus for ten hours with numerous beers saying I had to phone my boss I was an apprentice joiner and say look I'm not coming into work tomorrow I'm a professional footballer as of tomorrow morning and that was that and then you had to adjust the complete lifestyle of Even sharing cars with people, like you're nervous about meeting people in the car, who you're driving in with, and am I sitting in the right seat? Or when you go in the dressing room, is that someone's place that I'm in? And it was such a different environment.
Richard BrodieGUEST
But then when you actually grow, I remember the first time I walked into the York City training ground dressing rooms, and then in 2007, then go 2010, when you go back and you've scored all these goals, People will have me thinking, I could have sat where I wanted, to be honest.
Mark KermodeHOST
Yeah, no, I'm, I'm good.
Mark KermodeHOST
G- you know what? Um, after r- recording this show, I am a-running to Newquay Airport, which, I mean, I'm assuming that actually flights are gonna be happening, 'cause obviously we're recording this on Wednesday morning-
Simon MayoHOST
Mm-hmm
Mark KermodeHOST
... and the last, the last I listened, everything was shut down.
MarkHOST
About
Other MarkHOST
seven or eight years ago, they planned to do this holiday, but for one reason or another, they couldn't do it, so... we decided as part of this holiday that we were going to go to Newquay, we would start by doing the same holiday.
Other MarkHOST
So we went to Dorset on the basis that we were going to go to Monkey World, which was incredible, by the way.
Other MarkHOST
And then from there, I'll stop at the Monkey World thing because it was incredible.
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Other MarkHOST
But anyway, so we finished there.
Other MarkHOST
We drove down then to Newquay.
Other MarkHOST
Or Helen did, actually.
Sara CoxHOST
But well done, Simon.
Clare HamiltonHOST
Jackie says, in the 70s, I was 14 and worked in a cafe in Newquay, which is my hometown.
Clare HamiltonHOST
With my first pay packet, I bought some earrings and a ring and I still have them, but maybe they need a bit of a clean.
Clare HamiltonHOST
And she's just sent a little picture with some...
Robin BanksGUEST
went to Jack FM, yeah.
Robin BanksGUEST
I remember I was in Newquay and I got a phone call from Jack FM.
Robin BanksGUEST
And I was trying, because my father-in-law lives in Newquay, so we were visiting my father-in-law and myself and my wife and my daughter.
Robin BanksGUEST
My daughter was, I think, three years old at the time.
Robin BanksGUEST
And we would drive from then Newquay back to our home in, oh, I think we were in Darlington at the time.
Robin BanksGUEST
No, yeah, you've missed out Star Radio.
Robin BanksGUEST
You missed Star completely.
Robin BanksGUEST
And then I got offered the chance to be a program director for UKRD at Star Radio.
Tamsyn KellyGUEST
... um, I would get The...
Tamsyn KellyGUEST
There's a flight that runs from Glasgow to Newquay.
Tamsyn KellyGUEST
It only runs at certain times-
Roddy GordonHOST
Okay
Jack PerksHOST
And there's things like coma and different blennies and things that we never had.
Jack PerksHOST
And I think it's going to continue again, like in another 15 years, you know, you'll see a barracuda in Newquay or something.
Jack PerksHOST
It is interesting.
Jack PerksHOST
Yeah.
Tommy JHOST
Lou Courtney, I'm trying to find my mum.
Tommy JHOST
We're going to say hi to Ted and Terry and also Dave and Steph Bransgrove over there in Newquay.
Tommy JHOST
I think it's Newquay.
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You don't want to fall in love with this little girl I don't want to bring you down to my lonely world Tears of the heart Cause everything I touch Tears to tears Everything I dream Ends up dying Everything I touch Tears to tears to hold you close in the night hold you close and never let
Tommy JHOST
Columbia Records, 1966.
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