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The biggest stars, the most iconic performances, the most outrageous outfits – it’s Britain’s number one pop show.

This documentary is about the first five years of BBC Radio 1 and contains interviews with the disc jockeys and other folk who were involved in the station's inception. It also contains footage from the previous pirate radio era as a means of explaining why Radio 1 came about.

The biggest stars, the most iconic performances, the most outrageous outfits – it’s Britain’s number one pop show.