The song length differences could be down to comparing the LP version to the CD version - the CD version uses longer versions of most of the songs, so is 8 minutes longer than the LP version. It's likely that they just got hold of a copy of the album the day before it went on sale (as an aside, Poland does appear to have the highest number of bootleg cassette versions of the album - I wouldn't mind betting a lot of them were dubbed off this broadcast). Has a recording of this ever actually surfaced? I've seen reports of it being the culmination of a 'Pink Floyd Day' on the station where they played all of their albums in order the day before the album was released (27/03/94). A couple of the songs were slightly longer than the proper versions too! Quote from: JesusAndYourBush on January 26, 2023, 09:28:35 PMPolish station RMF FM played the Floyd's 'Division Bell' in its entirety *before* it was released. That era didn't last very long though and as audiences increased FM stations ended up highly formatted just like AM. On US radio in the early seventies, station owners were not overly fussed about FM as it got a lot less listeners, which resulted in the rise of freeform stations that could play whole albums without any restrictions. (There were other ways to get around the needle time limits with film soundtracks, non-UK releases - Abba are supposed to have done well with this - and 'Radioplay' compilations with specially-licensed tracks that would not count against needle time and paid royalties separately.) Because John Peel was playing a lot of non-PPL music in his Radio 1 shows he probably had more leeway to play whole album sides without hitting his show's needle time limit. Specially recorded sessions were a way to play extra music above the limit so that was where you were more likely to hear a lot of tracks from a new album. Playing a whole album would eat up too much of that so it was not very common.
Until the end of the eighties in the UK there were needle time rules imposed by the copyright collection agency PPL which limited radio stations to just 8 and later 9 hours a day of commercially-released music.
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