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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…

Farewell, dear friend. AM has fallen silent across a chunk of Europe as engineers in France, Germany and Luxembourg flicked the switches and turned off their Medium Wave signals at midnight on New Year's Eve. Au revoir. Amongst others, Deutschlandradio closed down its seven Medium Wave transmit…

Kenny was unbelievably excited as a kid when he was given his second tape recorder as a gift.   Radio anoraks will understand how enjoyment was amplified manifold with a second machine. One machine meant you could record and play; two enabled you to copy and mix. These were simple times. The Radio …

No year-end is complete without a gratuitous chart or two.  My Radiomoments Audioboom channe l, now replete with over a thousand choice cuts  from 1922 to the present day, and amassing over two thirds of a million listens, has had a decent year.  But which clips reaped the most plays in 2015 from t…