The ideal Christmas gift for any lover of radio, the BBC or broadcasting - this book is for anybody who enjoyed or still enjoys listening to BBC Radio 1.
The book covers the launch of Radio 1 in 1967 and the many problems that had to be overcome to sustain it, the stories of the DJ’s who came and went and the launch of Radio 1 Club.

For the first time I have written about the production of the widely acclaimed 14 hour documentary, The Beatles Story, the most authorative and comprehensive radio documentary ever made about the Beatles.

I describe how I devised the Radio 1 Roadshow which was the BBC’s biggest travelling show which ran for over 21 years, and I tell the true tales of the fun and games behind the scenes on the road.

I have written how I came to be put in charge of Britain’s biggest Radio Station and the politics of working with Chairman “Duke” Hussey and Directors General Michael Checkland and John Birt. I have included the inside gossip on the top DJ’s and their tears and their tantrums. John Peel, Noel Edmonds, Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Mike Read, Simon Bates, Jimmy Savile and many more were all there in my time and I knew them well.

The coverage of the world’s biggest pop concert, Live Aid is explained in full and I tell what it was like backstage at Wembley. All this and more in Radio 1-The Inside Scene