Work in Kent
Don joined Radio Medway in 1979 and was with the station when it relaunched as Radio Kent in July 1983.
In October 1984, he was part of the launch team for Kent's very first commercial radio station, Invicta Sound (now Heart, Kent), where he hosted a mid morning music and chat programme. Invicta Sound's 'debate and discussion' launch format was famously unsuccessful and most of the early presenters found themselves out of work when the schedule was revamped less than a year later.
Don returned to BBC Radio Kent for the rest of the eighties and early nineties as presenter of the popular nostalgia music show, Remember When, and also hosted the Sunday morning breakfast shows which included his popular topical chats with Canon Clifford Pollard of the Canterbury diocese. Always a crowd puller, Don hosted a series of stage shows for the BBC at the Kent County Show and was one of the main anchors of BBC Radio Kent's marathon six hour live fund-raising Children in Need broadcasts, as well as being match day announcer at Gillingham Football Club for most of the eighties.
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