They both hated DLT

Andy Beckett

  • The Nation’s Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1 by Simon Garfield
    Faber, 273 pp, £9.99, October 1998, ISBN 0 571 19435 4

Radio 1 used to sound like Surrey to me. Perhaps it was the disc jockeys they used in those days, with their creamy car-dealer’s voices and their discreetly tabloid opinions; or the on-air pub quizzes and snooker, where female contestants were flirted with and spoken to slowly; or the endless suburban doze of the afternoon programmes; or the sense, if you cared about pop music, that the records played were nothing but restaurant muzak to the DJs – to be talked over, cut short, looped repeatedly, forgotten about.

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