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Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my new book too 'Radio Moments: 50 years of radio -...
A BBC Radio Scotland educational broadcast for primary school children - on producing the Radio 1 breakfast show in the days of Simon Mayo.
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
The announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth II on a selection of national UK radio stations. With Twitter beating them all in timelines...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
Tony Lyman began his radio career in hospital radio at Radio Nene Valley – whilst working as a postie - before making his radio debut on boa...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
This montage illustrates how UK radio broke into regular programming on the event of the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh on Fr...
In the most expected move in UK radio, Simon Mayo transfers from Scala weekdays to Greatest Hits Radio. He calls upon the decent 'new term'...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
When Simon arrived at Bauer-owned Scala Radio, a few of us stroked our chins and thought he'd turn up on Greatest Hits Radio before too long...
How many true radio greats are on air in a generation? A dozen? Jane Garvey is high on my version of that list. And if the list is a chart,...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
What a wonderful culture clash - with Alan Freeman at his peak hosting Pick of the Pops and hitting a Radio 2 junction.
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
27th September 2020 saw Keith Skues hit the stab on Mr Tambourine Man for the final time, as his 500th show marked the end of his broadcasti...
The style and voice of characters like Cousin Brucie dominated AM radio in the 50s and 60s in the US - whilst life in UK radio was altogethe...
2020 and another slew of stations reach the end of the road, as national radio brands become bigger. This time, Bauer incorporate more of th...
On 27 August 1990 the BBC launched its fifth national radio station – Radio 5 - the first network addition since 1967, using the frequencies...
Dotty's last breakfast show on 1Xtra on 30th July 2020
The new breakfast show on Kiss launched on 3rd August 2020 with Jordan and Perri.
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
On 30th July 2020, Norman Smith announced his farewell from the BBC. He joined the BBC as a local radio reporter in 1986, becoming a parliam...
If you’ve ever hosted a chart, you’ll know that precision counts. Every word. Every second. You have little space to adlib around errors inc...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
Times Radio launched on 29th June 2020. (Blog post to follow)
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
Making its debut on Independence Day weekend in 1970 on just 7 stations, the American Top 40 would grow to be heard around the World on more...
As the French government prepared to sign an armistice with the Nazis, President Charles De Gaulle turned up at BH on 18th June 1940 to broa...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
Things go wrong in radio. It happens to all of us. It's worse when they go wrong at the beginning of your show, as it then puts you in the w...
I cannot think of any other time when so many commercial and BBC stations have united to broadcast a single co-ordinated message. The Mental...
Five months after announcing he was to leave, Christian O'Connell left Absolute Radio on May 18th 2018. He had hosted the breakfast show for...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
Pete Mitchell died on March the 12th 2020, aged 61. He'd been on-air for 34 years, and was well-known as one half of Pete and Geoff and for...
Talk radio American style on COVID 19. Government is shutting down - and Mark Levin is not happy. 'Let my people go'. Truly shocking radio....
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
On 10th July 1969, the BBC published a short report ‘Broadcasting in the 70s’, “to enable BBC radio to play a full part in the broadcasting...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
As BBC news implemented its latest round of cuts, the axe fell on 5 Live's Wake Up to Money and Mickey Clarke said his goodbyes with a lengt...
Radio plays a part in all our lives. Enjoy here, some choice moments from the first hundred years of the medium in the UK. Grab a copy of my...
After almost 30 years at Lincs FM - graduating from rookie journo to head honcho - Sean Dunderdale left commercial radio in February 2020. H...
A flick across BBC Radio 4, Radio Ulster, Radio Wales, BBC Scotland, BBC local radio, Hits Radio, Heart, LBC and Talk Radio at 2300 on 31st...
The death of Nicholas Parsons was announced on 28th January 2020. Hear, here his 'home service' Radio 4 announce the news - and enjoy the PM...
Nicholas Parsons died in January 2020, aged 96. He'd been on air with his 'Just a Minute' programme on BBC Radio 4 since it began in 1967. H...
Most of us have done it at some stage in our career. Aired something that was not destined for so being. In the fortunate examples - such as...