{"id":3779,"date":"2021-03-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2021-04-25T20:08:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T19:08:49","slug":"uncle-bren-ard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/uncle-bren-ard\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan O&#8217;Carroll (Uncle Bren) on ARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2297\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3779-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19810700_ARD_Uncle_Bren_FM_TI.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19810700_ARD_Uncle_Bren_FM_TI.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19810700_ARD_Uncle_Bren_FM_TI.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19810700_ARD_Uncle_Bren_FM_TI.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=3779-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/19810700_ARD_Uncle_Bren_FM_TI.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19810700_ARD_Uncle_Bren_FM_TI.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BOC-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Brendan O&#039;Carroll (Uncle Bren) on ARD\" class=\"wp-image-3014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BOC-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BOC-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BOC-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BOC.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><figcaption>Brendan O&#8217;Carroll aka Uncle Bren (photo courtesy of Dave Reddy).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ARD closed down on New Year&#8217;s Eve 1979 but returned a few hours later as <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/launch-of-radio-257-as-covered-by-radio-rainbow-international\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Radio 257<\/a> on New Year&#8217;s from the Crofton Hotel near Dublin Airport. The station would revert to the ARD name by late 1980. Many household names of the future passed through the doors of ARD\/257, one of whom was Brendan O&#8217;Carroll, now better known as Mrs Brown in the BBC and RT\u00c9 comedy <em>Mrs Brown&#8217;s Boys<\/em>. Here he is as &#8216;Uncle Bren the kiddies&#8217; friend&#8217; presenting the breakfast show. The voices of the late Tony Allan and Dave C. are heard on ads.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tipler-collection-1-1024x760.jpg\" alt=\"Brendan O&#039;Carroll (Uncle Bren) on ARD\" class=\"wp-image-1918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tipler-collection-1-1024x760.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tipler-collection-1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tipler-collection-1-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tipler-collection-1-1536x1141.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tipler-collection-1-2048x1521.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>A selection of the Leon Tipler Tapes in our archives. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an original recording made by British radio enthusiast Leon Tipler for his acclaimed documentary series &#8216;The Irish Pirates&#8217;. Part of the ARD recording is heard in the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-2\/#t=00:27:10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> but the full original tape has not been published previously. Unfortunately the cassette isn&#8217;t dated but we estimate it to be from July 1981. The Leon Tipler Tapes Collection was donated to us by Steve England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARD closed down on New Year&#8217;s Eve 1979 but returned a few hours later as Radio 257 on New Year&#8217;s from the Crofton Hotel near Dublin Airport. The station would revert to the ARD name by late 1980. Many household names of the future passed through the doors of ARD\/257, one of whom was Brendan &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/uncle-bren-ard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brendan O&#8217;Carroll (Uncle Bren) on ARD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[486,36,481,153,342],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-486","tag-ard","tag-brendan-ocarroll","tag-dublin","tag-leon-tipler"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brendan O&#039;Carroll (Uncle Bren) on ARD - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/uncle-bren-ard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brendan O&#039;Carroll (Uncle Bren) on ARD - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ARD closed down on New Year&#8217;s Eve 1979 but returned a few hours later as Radio 257 on New Year&#8217;s from the Crofton Hotel near Dublin Airport. 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