as well. So we went on to two shows
and eventually he said we had to do it
on three nights. So up it went, we then
had a Love Hour for three nights, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. Eventually, we
increased to seven nights a week.
Then from there, the Love Hour became
so popular that we changed the name
from the Love Hour to Night Time Heart
and Soul and that was for three hours
every night.
Southern FM then became Southern
Radio and we took over Ocean and
Power in Hampshire and the show was
broadcast from Brighton to all these
other places. So I was getting letters
from Portsmouth, Fareham, everywhere.
You know, it was just absolutely
unbelievable, just crazy.
I was there for about eleven years and
then they told me that the show was
going to be taken off. We had a new
programme controller who came from
Birmingham who decided that he didn’t
want the show anymore. He said they
wanted to become a dance radio station
and didn’t want all these love songs…
blah, blah, blah, blah. The show was
doing really well and there was no
reason to stop it but I got the sack.
And that was disastrous for me because
at the time the only thing I did was the
radio and I loved it.
I just thought ‘oh my god, what am
I going to do?’ You know, I had a
mortgage and everything else. My
other boss Bob Hoad said it wasn’t his
decision and that it was the decision
from the new controller and the people
from London.
He told me I was the best PR person in
the company because of all my contacts
and I represented the station on a lot of
I honestly didn’t
realise how popular
the show was until I
got the sack.
committees and attended meetings in
London and Birmingham and wherever I
was needed. Bob said everyone knows
you and everyone wants to see you so
I decided to do a PR course. I did this
in London for six months and gained a
diploma before deciding to set up my
own PR company.
I still wanted to work in radio too after I
got the sack so it was good that other
smaller radio stations wanted me.
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