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How on earth did this lovely, quietly mumbling man attract an audience of millions?   No teasing.  Little ‘sense of the day’.    No callers.  No stunts.  No giggling sidekick.  Not slick. No crazy competitions.  No showbiz.  Few weather forecasts.  Incestuous talk about his radio team.  Interminabl…

When Christian O’Connell began on breakfast across the UK, 86% of households didn’t have digital radio; the best-selling phone was a Nokia; and Mike Baldwin died. Ten years on breakfast is quite a landmark on any radio station, not least one in the aggressive London and UK market.   Congratulations…

For a while a buzzard has flown down from the nearby trees to stand in the field next to the cottage in which we are currently living.  It stands for some time surrounded by green shoots and surveys the world with sharp inclinations of its head; occasionally it will heavily hop a metre or two to ta…

If you don’t live near Nottinghamshire, you may not have heard too much about him. That’s probably the point. Dennis McCarthy MBE belonged purely to the city he came to call his own.  That’s why the streets were lined for his funeral route twenty years ago – and why he remains so fondly remembered …

The Capital network launched five years ago - on 3rd January 2011, bringing together the eponymous London station with a clutch of heritage 'Hit Music' and Galaxy stations across the UK, reaching 7.1m listeners.  Its UK audience has subsequently stood up well over the period - in what can b…