A Fine Bit of Rare Howard Hughes On-Air

It is with great sadness that I have to make this extra entry to Howard’s Story. My great friend and true radio legend passed away on 9th November 2024.

There is more information on his unexplained Podcast website HERE and if you knew Howard and have not heard his own story in his own words I do hope you make a half hour free and go and listen to him HERE

There is also the audio at the bottom of this page.

I remember this was on air after I returned in 1988….Nick wright got flu and I filled in at short notice…   I sound very different now but this is very much of its era – and shows what a great station Wyvern was ….commercial but local without sounding twee…!!   Jane Garvey was in the news team then – before she joined the BBC in Worcester….Jane and I did an edition of Sunday Best together – we kept making each other laugh at some of the sillier messages we had to read –  her boyfriend at the time (Tim) brought us ice creams that dripped all over the equipment…

One Wyvern story – I did Sunday breakfast – one November morning every headphone socket on the desk had broken – I had to do the whole show using my own FM radio headphones monitoring off 102.8  – I could just about hear the station if I kept my head leaning to the right…   That show must have sounded more odd than usual !!

Then, of course, there was the 3 Counties – when I bounced up to a man I thought was a farm equipment rep – we had a nice jolly talk – Off air he told me he was John Pickles (a really nice man) …the first manager of the soon to be on air BBC H&W !!…. I hadn’t recognised him – 2 years before he interviewed me for a producer job at BBC WM !!!!

Classic aircheck so many memories in such a short recording SS – Thanks again to wwww.aircheckdownloads.com