The Digital Age
Don pursued his broadcasting career in Malta in the early nineties where he also married his second wife Cheryl, returning to England, to the beautiful county of Kent, as he referred to his adopted home, in 1997. It was from there that he relaunched his UK broadcasting career, tossing out the gramophone decks and needles to embrace the digital broadcasting age, and was soon back behind the microphone at Channel Travel Radio in Folkestone giving out cross channel information to motorists on the M20.
A stint as weekend newsreader for London talk station LBC followed, before he joined the new over fifties digital service PrimeTime Radio where he presented the late night slot, In Mellow Mood. He also presented shows for Primetime's digital sister station, Saga DAB Radio, and for Saga 106.6 FM in the East Midlands and Saga 105.7 FM in the West Midlands, but these were recorded in Saga Digital's west London studios.
When Primetime and Saga ceased broadcasting in 2006, Don emigrated to Estepona on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain. His final radio stop was with REM FM (now Talk Radio Europe), broadcasting to the Costas, the Canaries, Tenerife and Gibraltar, where, from May 2007, he presented weekend shows with a mix of music, chat and celebrity guests as diverse as the entertainer Max Bygraves and the jazz loving politician Ken Clarke.
Read more about this topic: Don Durbridge
Famous quotes containing the word age:
“The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age and the beginning of later maturity with surprise and a sense of having finished the journey while they were still preparing to commence it.”
—Robert Havighurst (20th century)