Born in Devon in 1941 and brought up in Wimbledon, Ed “Stewpot” Stewart was supposed to have a secure job when he left school playing…
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Real name Michael Joseph Pasternak, the son of the famous Hollywood producer Joe Pasternak, launched his DJ career in the US Navy, joining Radio Caroline…
Born in October 1942, Errol Bruce Knapp spent his youth around military bases (his father was a Canadian serving in the British Army). His first…
Fred Dagg was actually New Zealand-born comedian and political satirist John Clarke, who appeared as Dagg on television always wearing a black singlet and gumboots.…
This revolutionary, highly influential British radio comedy show aired on the BBC Home Service over 10 series from 1951 to 1960, producing 238 regular episodes…
1 9 4 6 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) Debuting on 4 March 1946, this BBC Radio record request programme was broadcast six mornings a…
Born on 20 May 1934, American radio disc jockey Hyman Aaron Lit was based in the Philadelphia area from the 1950s until 2005. In his…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 7 0 (UK) 95 x episodes 1 9 7 3 (UK) 8 x episodes Often abbreviated as ISIRTA,…
1 9 6 1 (UK) This half-hour comedy series from the BBC Light Programme aired on Thursday nights in the spring and summer of 1961 and…
After a stint at BBC Radio Merseyside, Janice Long – elder sister of Swap Shop’s Keith Chegwin and a former Laker Airways hostess – joined Radio…
James Wilson Vincent Savile left school at 14 to take an office job before becoming a coal-face worker in the mines. An accident at the…
The son of a miner, Jimmy Young was born in Cinderford and was originally a singer with a number of hit records to his credit…
John Peel (born John Ravenscroft in 1939) cut his teeth as a DJ in the USA, working on stations in Dallas, Oklahoma and San Bernardino,…
Birmingham-born Walker began his DJ career at the age of 20, working in ballrooms in his home town. While working as a ballroom DJ, he…
Holliday (born John Holliday Bobbitt on 15 October 1937) started in radio in small markets like Perry, Georgia, before landing a job at WHK in…
After early radio experience in Melbourne, Australia, Johnny came to Britain in 1963 (his mother was from Sheffield in Yorkshire), joining Radio Luxembourg as a…
Born in Timperley, Cheshire, in 1939, Skues’ broadcasting career began on the British Forces Network in Cologne, Germany, in 1959. He returned to Britain in…
One of the great innovators. Kenny Everett (real name Maurice James Cole) helped to establish the double-DJ show with Dave Cash on pirate station Radio…
1 9 4 6 – 2 0 0 4 (UK) 2,869 x 15 minute broadcasts This weekly 15-minute BBC radio broadcast by Alistair Cooke first…
First heard on 16 January 1950, the BBC radio programme Listen With Mother offered a mix of nursery rhymes, stories and music for the under-fives…