Hospital radio

And then there was a big sort of gap in the whole kind of radio career.

I did a little bit of hospital radio in Chelmsford, but I managed to get myself fired from there.

Yeah, that didn't go so well.

I'm still annoyed about it.

Some woman said I'd asked her to say the word bum on air and she didn't like it.

So she complained and they pulled me aside and said, I don't think this place is for you, too.

And so I got fired from hospital radio.

But then after that, yeah, then I didn't do anything really until very early 90s is when I when I came back into radio when I was a student.

One of the big stars on, uh, Big L back in the day, came all the way from Brisbane in, uh, Australia, hence you can hear it in his accent.

A very kind, generous man, helped me out a lot at Hospital Radio and trained quite a few people there as well.

A very, very generous man.

Here's the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band with a great twist at the end of the song, The Urban Spaceman.

And the way I got in was the way that a lot of people did back then.

I did voluntary work at Hospital Radio in Norwich for a little while just to prove that I had the, I suppose, a bit of experience and the right attitude to do it without wanting to be paid straight away.

And once I'd started doing that, I picked up the odd shift, again, working for free at BBC Radio Norfolk on their Saturday sports show.

And this was...

The way into radio, late 90s, we're talking just into the 2000s, was you worked quite a lot for nothing.

I did voluntary work at Hospital Radio in Norwich for a while to get some experience.

I worked behind the scenes at Radio Norfolk on the Saturday sports show for free for a while, answering the phones, ringing around the local football grounds when the days before you could get scores on the internet.

And then I hung around long enough until somebody gave me a chance to actually go on the mic and then got the chance to stand in for Roy Waller a couple of times when he wasn't available to do games on a Saturday.