Roger Day
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Broadcaster Roger "Twiggy" Day Real name Roger Thomas (born in Kent
, United Kingdom
on 29 March 1945) currently presents on six BBC Local Radio
stations across southern England.
's Pop The Question music quiz in 1965, which was hosted by Muriel Young
. In 1966 he was working as an accountant by day and part-time DJ at night.
and was one of the original presenters and was there until the station closed 6 months later.
In 1967, he joined Radio Caroline
South before joining Radio Luxembourg
.
He then returned to offshore radio
broadcasting with Radio North Sea International
, which dismissed him in 1970. He also briefly presented a breakfast show on the new Radio Caroline
in the mid-1970s.
's Piccadilly Radio, Birmingham
's BRMB
, Radio West in Bristol
, Invicta Radio / Invicta Supergold
in Kent
, Pirate FM
in Cornwall
, Jazz FM
in London, County Sound in Surrey, Amber Radio
in Suffolk
and Fusion 107.3 in London.
He has also managed radio stations,including Mellow 1557
in Essex
.
in Birmingham. He then took over the Weekday Drivetime show from 4-8pm, (4-7pm on Fridays) and presented a three hour show on Saturday mornings from 10am-1pm playing 50s and 60s tunes. He also hosted an hour-long show playing number ones on Saturday afternoons from 1-2pm.
Roger Day has also been involved with a number of failed commercial radio stations with Nigel Reeve including Fusion Radio, Fresh FM, South West Radio Ltd, and YMC. See www.DigitalSpy.com
in March 2007 Day presented a show for Smooth Radio. '60s Saturday' played music from that decade between 10am-1pm on Saturdays, but the show ended in September 2007 as Smooth Radio re-scheduled some of its programmes.
Day then moved stations and began presenting a daily show on BBC Radio Kent
every weekday evening from 7-10pm, this show can also be heard on six stations (BBC Radio Kent
, BBC Sussex
, BBC Surrey
, BBC Radio Solent
, BBC Radio Berkshire
and BBC Radio Oxford
) in the South and South East of England. The programme features the best music from the past 6 decades plus in depth interviews with those who made it. Recent interviewees include Ray Davies
, Marianne Faithfull
, Sir Cliff Richard, James Morrison
, Michael McDonald
, Mick Fleetwood
, Florence & The Machine, Foreigner
and Mr. Hudson. Until summer 2010 he also presented a Sunday afternoon show from 2-5pm only on BBC Radio Kent
.
Roger Day can also be heard presenting regular shows on the Satellite Version of Radio Caroline
, which he has been doing since 2003.
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
on 29 March 1945) currently presents on six BBC Local Radio
BBC Local Radio
BBC Local Radio is the BBC's regional radio service for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of 40 stations. They cover a variety of areas with some serving a city and surrounding areas, for example BBC Radio Manchester; a county, for example BBC Radio Norfolk; an administrative region for...
stations across southern England.
Early career
Day appeared on Southern TVSouthern Television
Southern Television was the first ITV broadcasting licence holder for the south and south-east of England from 30 August 1958 until the night of 31 December 1981. The company was launched as Southern Television Limited and the title Southern Television was consistently used on-air throughout its life...
's Pop The Question music quiz in 1965, which was hosted by Muriel Young
Muriel Young
Muriel Young was a British television continuity announcer, presenter and producer.-Early life:...
. In 1966 he was working as an accountant by day and part-time DJ at night.
The Pirates
Day was invited to join Swinging Radio EnglandSwinging Radio England
Swinging Radio England was a top 40 offshore commercial station billed as the "World's Most Powerful" that operated from 3 May 1966 to 13 November 1966 from a ship in the North Sea, three and a half miles off Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, England...
and was one of the original presenters and was there until the station closed 6 months later.
In 1967, he joined Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline is an English radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly...
South before joining Radio Luxembourg
Radio Luxembourg (English)
Radio Luxembourg is a commercial broadcaster in many languages from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is nowadays known in most non-English languages as RTL ....
.
He then returned to offshore radio
Offshore radio
Offshore radio is radio broadcasting from ships or fixed maritime structures, usually in international waters. The claimed first wireless broadcast of music and speech for the purpose of entertainment was transmitted from a Royal Naval craft, the HMS Andromeda, in 1907...
broadcasting with Radio North Sea International
Radio North Sea International
Radio North Sea International also known as Radio Nordsee International in German and Radio Noordzee Internationaal in Dutch, was a European offshore radio station, run by the Swiss firm Mebo Telecommunications, jointly owned by Swiss engineer, Edwin Bollier, and his business partner, Erwin Meister...
, which dismissed him in 1970. He also briefly presented a breakfast show on the new Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline is an English radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly...
in the mid-1970s.
Commercial Radio
Since then, Day has been heard on many commercial stations throughout the UK including ManchesterManchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
's Piccadilly Radio, Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
's BRMB
Brmb
brmb is a local radio station based in Birmingham, UK, owned and operated by Orion Media. The station broadcasts on 96.4 FM, DAB Digital Radio in the West Midlands and online...
, Radio West in Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
, Invicta Radio / Invicta Supergold
Invicta FM
Heart Kent is an Independent Local Radio Station broadcasting to the county of Kent, England. It was rebranded in June 2009 and is now part of Global Radio's Heart Network....
in Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
, Pirate FM
Pirate FM
Pirate FM is one of the Independent Local Radio stations for Cornwall, playing a range of music from the 1960's to the present day.-Background:...
in Cornwall
Cornwall
Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...
, Jazz FM
Jazz FM
Jazz FM may refer to:*Jazz FM , a digital jazz radio station in the United Kingdom.*102.2 Jazz FM, a defunct radio station based in London, England.*100.4 Jazz FM, a defunct radio station based in Manchester, England....
in London, County Sound in Surrey, Amber Radio
Amber Radio
Amber Radio was a golden oldies radio station operating from Norwich, part of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.It was the AM sister station of SGR and Radio Broadland and served Norfolk and north Suffolk and Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds.-History:...
in Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
and Fusion 107.3 in London.
He has also managed radio stations,including Mellow 1557
Mellow 1557
Mellow 1557 was a former medium wave radio station based in Frinton on Sea in Essex, United Kingdom.-Ownership:The station launched on 7 October 1990 as an easy listening station for Tendering...
in Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...
.
Saga 105.7 FM
For some time after its inception in October 2001, Day was used as a relief breakfast show presenter, standing in for David Hamilton and Les Ross for Saga 105.7 FMSaga 105.7 FM
Saga 105.7fm was an independent local radio station broadcasting to the West Midlands of the United Kingdom. As well as the West Midlands County, it also served surrounding areas such as Worcestershire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire.- Broadcast details :...
in Birmingham. He then took over the Weekday Drivetime show from 4-8pm, (4-7pm on Fridays) and presented a three hour show on Saturday mornings from 10am-1pm playing 50s and 60s tunes. He also hosted an hour-long show playing number ones on Saturday afternoons from 1-2pm.
Roger Day has also been involved with a number of failed commercial radio stations with Nigel Reeve including Fusion Radio, Fresh FM, South West Radio Ltd, and YMC. See www.DigitalSpy.com
BBC Radio Kent
With the closure of Saga and its rebranding as 105.7 Smooth Radio105.7 Smooth Radio
105.7 Smooth Radio was an Independent Local Radio station for the West Midlands of the United Kingdom, and replaced Saga 105.7 FM at 6am on Monday 26 March 2007...
in March 2007 Day presented a show for Smooth Radio. '60s Saturday' played music from that decade between 10am-1pm on Saturdays, but the show ended in September 2007 as Smooth Radio re-scheduled some of its programmes.
Day then moved stations and began presenting a daily show on BBC Radio Kent
BBC Radio Kent
BBC Radio Kent is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Kent.It broadcasts on FM on 96.7 , 97.6 and 104.2 also 774 and 1602 MW and DAB.- History :The radio station was launched in 1970 under the name of BBC Radio Medway, originally only serving the...
every weekday evening from 7-10pm, this show can also be heard on six stations (BBC Radio Kent
BBC Radio Kent
BBC Radio Kent is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Kent.It broadcasts on FM on 96.7 , 97.6 and 104.2 also 774 and 1602 MW and DAB.- History :The radio station was launched in 1970 under the name of BBC Radio Medway, originally only serving the...
, BBC Sussex
BBC Sussex
BBC Sussex is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Sussex. It began on 14 February 1968 as BBC Radio Brighton, later becoming BBC Radio Sussex and then part of BBC Southern Counties Radio, before adopting its present name on 30 March 2009...
, BBC Surrey
BBC Surrey
BBC Surrey is the BBC Local Radio service covering the English county of Surrey, along with North-East Hampshire and the northern fringes of West Sussex including Crawley, East Grinstead and Gatwick Airport...
, BBC Radio Solent
BBC Radio Solent
BBC Radio Solent is the BBC Local Radio service for the Isle of Wight and the English counties of Hampshire and Dorset. Its studios are located in Southampton, in the same purpose-built office block in Havelock Road as the BBC South Today news studios, and there are district offices in Portsmouth,...
, BBC Radio Berkshire
BBC Radio Berkshire
BBC Radio Berkshire is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Berkshire, as well as parts of North Hampshire, including Basingstoke. Radio Berkshire broadcasts on 94.6 , 95.4 , 104.1 and 104.4 FM from its studios at Caversham Park near Reading. The 104.1 FM signal is the strongest...
and BBC Radio Oxford
BBC Radio Oxford
BBC Radio Oxford is the BBC Local Radio station for the English county of Oxfordshire, broadcasting on 95.2 FM via the Oxford transmitter and online. The station broadcasts live from the BBC's Summertown studios in Oxford between 5am and 7pm each weekday, for over 13 hours on Saturdays & 19 hours...
) in the South and South East of England. The programme features the best music from the past 6 decades plus in depth interviews with those who made it. Recent interviewees include Ray Davies
Ray Davies
Ray Davies, CBE is an English rock musician. He is best known as lead singer and songwriter for the Kinks, which he led with his younger brother, Dave...
, Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....
, Sir Cliff Richard, James Morrison
James Morrison (singer)
James Morrison is a BRIT Award-winning English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Rugby, Warwickshire. In 2006, his debut single "You Give Me Something" became a hit in Europe, Australia, and Japan, peaking in the top five in the UK and New Zealand. His debut album, Undiscovered, debuted at the...
, Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald (singer)
Michael McDonald is a five-time Grammy Award winning American singer and songwriter. McDonald is known for a soulful baritone singing style and a multi-octave range. He began his career singing back-up vocals with Steely Dan...
, Mick Fleetwood
Mick Fleetwood
Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood is a British musician and actor best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of John McVie, was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac...
, Florence & The Machine, Foreigner
Foreigner (band)
Foreigner is a British-American rock band, originally formed in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm...
and Mr. Hudson. Until summer 2010 he also presented a Sunday afternoon show from 2-5pm only on BBC Radio Kent
BBC Radio Kent
BBC Radio Kent is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Kent.It broadcasts on FM on 96.7 , 97.6 and 104.2 also 774 and 1602 MW and DAB.- History :The radio station was launched in 1970 under the name of BBC Radio Medway, originally only serving the...
.
Roger Day can also be heard presenting regular shows on the Satellite Version of Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline is an English radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly...
, which he has been doing since 2003.
External links
- Personal website
- Profile at 105.7 Smooth Radio
- Roger Day interviewing Albert ScanlonAlbert ScanlonAlbert Joseph Scanlon was an English football player. He began his career with Manchester United and was one of the "Busby Babes" who survived the Munich air disaster of 1958. Although he sustained severe injuries, he recovered and continued to play league football for Newcastle United, Lincoln...
- streaming audio