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He is stepping away from BBC Radio 2 as his health worsens.
After playing Johnny Nash’s I Can See Clearly Now, he closed the show by saying: “Here we are at the end of a 15-year run on Sunday afternoon’s Sounds Of The 70s and 58 years on British radio.
Veteran radio DJ Johnnie Walker’s wife Tiggy has said she “couldn’t be more proud of” her husband, after he died at the age of 79. Walker’s death was announced on air by his friend and ...
Johnnie Walker has signed off his final episode as the host of BBC Radio 2’s The Rock Show with a touching farewell message.. The veteran presenter announced his plans to retire from radio after ...
A book published in 2006, Johnnie Walker – Cruisin' The Formats, described his radio work over forty years. [ citation needed ] From 9 to 14 August 2007, Walker was one of several former pirate radio disc jockeys who appeared in BBC Essex's six-day revival of pirate radio to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Marine, &c., Broadcasting ...
6 October – Johnnie Walker announces that due to ill health, he is to leave the station after 26 years at the end of the month, bringing his broadcasting career to a close after 58 years. [155] 25 and 27 October – Johnnie Walker presents his final editions of The Rock Show and Sounds of the 70s.
The same month, Walker announced he was retiring from radio after 58 years during his Sounds Of The 70s show as he was struggling to keep up a “professional standard” for Radio 2 due to his ...
Popular radio presenter Johnnie Walker, a former pirate radio DJ who began his career with the BBC in 1969, has died aged 79.. The veteran DJ had been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and ...