🎙️ Team-FM Weekend Highlights: What’s Coming Up!
The weekend is calling… and Team-FM is answering with feel-good tunes, classic memories, and plenty of moments to smile along with.
These are highlights from the schedule (we’ve got even more across the weekend), so dip in, pick your favourites, and make it a good one!
🌟 Friday Night Starter
🎉 “Welcome to the Weekend” — Friday 7 PM–9 PM
Great features, friendly banter, and that unmistakable end-of-week glow — with the honey-voiced Brian D guiding you into the weekend
the only way he knows how: with feel-good music and good vibes.
- This week’s highlight: the unveiling of the Team-FM Top Tune 🎧
- Last week’s Top Tune: “Fake Diamonds” — Brothers Kim 💎
Top Tune Teaser (no spoilers…) ✨
This week’s Top Tune is a smooth, stylish new track from a global hitmaker who knows exactly how to blend charm, groove, and emotion.
Built on a slick rhythm and effortless vocals, it flirts with temptation, possibility, and that moment when feelings start to shift.
Cool, confident, and impossible not to vibe to.
☀️ Saturday Highlights
🍳 “Decades Breakfast” — Saturday 8 AM–10 AM
Start your morning the fun way with Mark Gale and a musical spread from the late 50s through to the 2000s — plus games, features,
and plenty of “ooh, I remember that!” moments.
- 🎡 Wheel of Fortune
- 📚 Music History
- 🎤 Lyric Game
- ⏱️ One Second Wonder
Reminder: You can also hear Mark Monday–Friday at 6 AM (plus weekends at 8 AM). Early birds: you’re sorted ✅
📼 “Totally 90’s” — Saturday 10 AM–12 PM
Big tunes, big memories, and all the 90s gossip you secretly still love — with Gary King.
Expect iconic hits, retro fun, and a few “how is that song 30 years old?” moments.
- Special guest this week: Shirley Manson (Garbage) 🎸
- Remember The Time: 1994 — five songs from the year, plus news and movie clips that’ll take you right back 📺🍿
- ⭐ Dream Top 3
🕹️ “The Music Machine” — Saturday 7 PM–9 PM
For 16 years, Brian Hartgen has delivered a show that doesn’t just play great music — it tells you the stories, the context,
and the “oh wow!” details behind what you’re hearing. Expect themed hours, brilliant features, and classic tunes in all directions.
- Golden Years: 1995 & 1985 📀 (UK singles chart snapshots from a particular week in each year)
- Virtual Gifts: adverts from the time — a nostalgic peek at what you could’ve bought back then 🛍️
- Mini Theme: “Faces and Places” — and this week it’s all about faces 😄👀 (songs with “face” in the title, or referencing parts of the face)
🍽️ Sunday Highlights
🥗 “70’s Sunday Lunch” — Sunday 1 PM–3 PM
If your perfect 70s playlist is the lighter, catchier side of the decade — the kind that makes you hum along without even noticing — then pull up a chair.
Brian Hartgen serves up iconic 70s tunes with TV themes, trivia games, and flashes of radio history.
- Featured year: 1974 — songs from the year plus lighthearted news stories 🗞️
- Story Behind The Song: “Good Morning Judge” — 10CC 🎶 (a closer look at how the track was written/recorded/produced)
🕺 “Totally 80’s” — Sunday 3 PM–5 PM
The 80s: big choruses, big characters, and big memories — with Gary King bringing the decade back to life.
- Special guest this week: Peter Cetera 🎤
- Total Recall: 1989 — five songs from the year, plus the news and movie clips that shaped it 📼
- ⭐ Dream Top 3
📻 “The Retro Chart Show” — Sunday 5 PM–7 PM
Remember sitting by the radio waiting for the chart? Dave Mac brings that feeling back — replaying UK chart hits from “this day in history”
across the 60s to the 90s, with loads of trivia along the way.
- This week’s chart years: 1978 & 1995 📈
✨ “Retro Hits” — Sunday 9 PM–11 PM
Round off the weekend with Dave Adams and two hours of iconic 70s & 80s favourites — disco, soul, synth, and all the feel-good energy you need.
- This week’s featured artists include: Shalamar, ABBA, Janet Jackson… and more 🪩
🔎 Want to Know What That Song Was?
If you hear something you love and want the details, try the Team-FM Song Checker.
You can review everything we’ve played in the past 30 days — and it even works in your own timezone if you’re outside the UK.
Enjoy the weekend on Team-FM! Where Great Music Matters!🎶
