Brilliant Stories of Liverpool Life in the 70s and 80s

Lifelong Scouser & Liverpool legend, BBC Radio Merseyside's Billy Maher chats with friends about life in Liverpool in the 1970s and 1980s

It's funny, poignant and nostalgic all at the same time.

Billy hears tales of life on the docks from a former Port of Liverpool police officer and an ex docker. He also finds out about the origins of the famous scouse dish with a well-known Liverpool cafe owner.

00:00 Intro 'My Liverpool Home'
02:04 Village on the Liver Pool
04:21 Frank Smith - Scouse
07:50 Mikey Keating & Gordon Hopwood - Scotty Road
13:10 The Finest Dockers in the World
18:27 Policing the Docks - Bobbies, Magpies & Flat Caps
26:35 The Hut
27:47 Famous Dockers
28:44 The Conditions
31:42 Strikes
33:55 A Pub on Every Corner
36:33 Happy Times - Scouser Through and Through

First released in 1997.

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