Memories of Radio Forth 1974 to 1976? Of course I have some but I have rarely written about those.

I kept in touch with only a few of my former colleague, mainly the late Richard Findlay, PD at the time, and who went on to have a top career running Forth, SRH and STV. I spoke on the phone recently with Ian Wales (engineer) and Alan Wilson (accountant).

I brought Tony to Forth when Dave Anthony suddenly resigned. Dave’s wife Steph couldn’t settle in Edinburgh. Curiously, despite his Luxembourg and Radio 1 background, Dave seemed to then vanish from radio.

Tony stayed with us in Saint Alban’s Road and loved the fact that the celebrated author and writer Neal Ascherson also shared the flat. A bizarre promotion at Forth was “Win a date with Tony” which attracted numerous entries from women of a certain age, really! Then Tony at Forth all went belly-up and we had to “let him go”, as Harry Chapin sings in WOLD, and he went back to the Mi Amigo, leaving behind a bounced Credit Lyonnais (typical Tony) cheque for his share of flat costs.

I learned a lot at Forth, mainly on how not to do things. I never worked for anyone else again, remaining freelance or for my/our own family companies.