In late 1974, Gough Whitlam’s Australian Labor government allocated a new AM radio license to the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) for a “youth-style” radio station…
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Born in Melbourne, Australia, former accountant Freeman landed himself a job as a summer relief disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg. He made enough of an…
The Disc Jockey widely credited with coining the phrase “rock ‘n’ roll” began life as a jazz trombonist with a band called the Sultans of Swing…
1 9 4 0 – 2 0 2 4 Anne Avril Nightingale was born in Osterley, Middlesex, England, on 1 April 1940. She became a fan…
1 9 5 1 – Current (UK) 20,000+ x 15 minute/12 minute episodes Set in the fictional village of Ambridge in the fictional county of Borsetshire…
Fifty mighty Argonauts, bending to the oars Today will go adventuring to yet uncharted shores Fifty young adventurers today set forth and so we cry…
Born in Newcastle, New South Wales (Australia) in 1930, Barry’s Public School education led him to a music scholarship at the University of Sydney and…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 6 (USA) Sharp-tongued satirists Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding had such an excellent on-air rapport as staff announcers…
One of the kings of the East Coast airwaves, Brooklyn-born Brucie (born Bruce Meyerowitz on 13 October 1935) began his radio career in the late…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 9 1 (UK) 338 x 25 minute episodes Encouraged by the success of EastEnders, this twice-weekly soap opera…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 7 2 (UK) This BBC Radio comedy series starred diminutive (4′ 3″) Northern comic Jimmy Clitheroe as a cheeky…
Born David Charles Wish on 18 July 1942, Londoner Dave Cash acquired his distinctive mid-Atlantic drawl after moving to Canada at 16. While in the Great…
Dave Christian (born David Crockford in 1948) began his career in the mid-1960s, working as a ballroom and club warm-up DJ for major pirate radio…
Hull began his radio career accidentally while serving in the military during the Korean War. Stationed in North Africa, he walked past an Armed Forces Radio…
Born in Buxton, Derbyshire, on 25 May 1945, Dave Lee Travis (born David Patrick Griffin) began his career spinning discs at the Oasis Club in…
David Allan Jensen was born in 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia. He began broadcasting in Canada at the age of sixteen, presenting, oddly enough, classical…
Born David Pilditch in Manchester on 10 September 1938, David Hamilton started his career with the British Forces Broadcasting Service in Germany after being conscripted…
1 9 4 2 – Current (UK) The long-running BBC radio series Desert Island Discs was first broadcast on the Forces Programme on 29 January 1942.…
Born in September 1932, Dick Biondi became an incredibly influential American disc jockey who fundamentally shaped the sound of rock-and-roll radio. Affectionately known as “The…
Canadian-born disc jockey “Daffy” Don Allen (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in March 1939 to Romanian parents) took a course in announcing in Chicago after leaving…