Radio Career
Educated at Bury Grammar School, Allan spent nine years working in theatre as a stage manager before he began broadcasting on the offshore station Radio 390 in 1966. Ten years later, he joined BBC Radio 2 to present country music programmes until the late 1980s. In 1994, he presented shows on Country 1035 in London, but did not stay long and was a heavy critic of the station's music playlist. By the 1990s, he was presenting country music programmes on Radio 2 again, but was later replaced by Bob Harris. He also presented a show on Melody FM and was heard at weekends on PrimeTime Radio before the station closed down. In 2002, he won an International Broadcaster award from the American Country Music Association.
Allan also works as a country music journalist, having regularly written opinion pages in the magazine Country Music People and presented country music programming for BBC TV, including coverage of the Wembley Country Music Festival.
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