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STEVE WRIGHT – CHAMPION OF THE BBC’S AIRWAVES DIES AT 69

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“Wrighty” had four decades on Radio One and Radio Two and also hostednumerous Top of The Pops programmes. He once flew to New York andbooked into a hotel and listened to local radio stations to garner good materialand concepts for his own shows. His amazing sense of humour was popularlyregarded as “zany”.Recently he had been on a weight loss journey, his heaviest weight havingbeen 18 stone and he was trying to achieve 12 stone. He was married forfourteen years to Cyndi Robinson and the couple had two children – Tom andLucy. “Wrighty” was said to have been a multimillionaire. Tom … Continue reading STEVE WRIGHT – CHAMPION OF THE BBC’S AIRWAVES DIES AT 69

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Chitle’s 111th birthday

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Influential Indian BBC radio broadcaster in the UK during World War II public servant, Venu Dattatreye Chitle, also known as Leela Ganesh Share from Kohapur, Maharastra, India, celebrates her 111th Birthday. She was also secretary to George Orwell during the early years of the second world war. She remained an avid activist for Indian independence. She read news and gave recipes in her Marathi her native language, while teaching British listeners vegetarian cooking skills at a time when meat was rationed during the war. Although she maintainer her support for Britain in the second World War in tis fight against … Continue reading Chitle’s 111th birthday