Rob Polland

Best city radio

My love and passion for radio started way back in 1962 when as a small boy for Christmas I was given the smallest transistor radio you ever saw.

What‘s the first thing I did? I went to bed at 8 as usual and got my tranny out and one little earpiece—“no stereo then”—and tuned in to Radio Luxembourg under the covers. A presenter by the name of Barry Aldiss came on—some of you of a certain age will remember him—and so the fuse was lit; my love for radio had begun.

Music has been and still is a huge part of my life, so with radio and music together, it was inevitable I would get involved.

I started out in hospital radio many moons ago and have moved to different stations over the years and eventually to internet radio, which I believe is the future of many things, including radio. Like many presenters, I believe in radio the way it used to be, and if I can be a tiny fraction as good as my hero Sir Terry Wogan, I’ll be a happy man.