Early Career
Following several years as a musician (which included a spell as a member of a short-lived band that went on tour with Chuck Berry, with another group which won the 1975 British Country Music Association award for Band of the Year and the still-running Telephone Bill & the Smooth Operators), his career in radio began in 1982, with the launch of BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. There he hosted the breakfast show and was later a mid morning presenter.
In 1986, he moved to Manchester to work for Radios 1 and 2, where, as well as producing shows for Andy Kershaw and the Northern Dance Orchestra, he also worked on the first definitive radio documentary about Country and Western music. The programme was called Hit It Boys, and was presented by Ricky Skaggs.
After a year in Manchester, he moved to London, where he spent some time producing further documentaries, Radio 2's Gloria Hunniford Show, and Wally Whyton's Country Club.
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