TV Cream
Radio 2: The Hosts
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169BRANDON, Tony
DID the early shift prior to Ray Moore
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2231BRUCE, Ken
FOOTBALL TRANSFER-esque signing from BBC Radio Scotland, enticed Londonwards in the mid-seventies with the promise of a headlining slot
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1581CARRINGTON, Desmond
LONG-SERVING wheel-taker of Two's Bisto-centric Sunday lunchtime inspiration-freeness All Time Greats
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2353
DUNN, John
UNSUITABLY monickered for those sung Radio 2 jingles
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HAMILTON, David ‘Diddy’
BACK in the seventies and eighties, the diminutive Hamilton divided his time between his Radio 2 afternoon show and Thames continuity duties
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1902
HUNNIFORD, Gloria
EMERGENCY STANDBY meeting of 'blarney' quota during Old Tel's wanderings in televisual Peter Egan-interviewing
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2161
JACKSON, Jack
PIONEERING bandleader-turned-DJ who single-handledly dragged the BBC out of the chaps-in-suits era by playing nothing but pesky 'gramaphone records'
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2233
JACOBS, David
ADVANCED-LEVEL Big Band-fixated roller-back-of-the-clock extraordinaire
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1792
JAMESON, Derek
"MORNIN' MORNIN', Jameson 'ere!". Unfortunately.
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3335
LESTER, Alex
CYNIC PAR EXCELLENCE of the R2 nightshift for the best part of 20 years of whom the dreaded TOGs offered approving words...
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2383
MATTHEW, Brian
FROM Saturday Club hip young gunslinger (well, sort of) in the sixties, to the 21st century, which finds him in almost exactly...
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MOORE, Ray
EARLY SHOW ultra-dry behemoth of fond remembrance
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2052
MURRAY, Pete
Ultrasmooth compere of mid-morning roving doorchime-themed Open House
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2626
PARKINSON, Michael
SERIAL-defecting grumpy bastard outstaying his welcome on Sunday mornings
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2584
WOGAN, Terry
"I don't know what's going on here but I wish it would stop".
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3101
YOUNG, Jimmy
"MRS Thatcher's favourite broadcaster" but we won't hold that against him