‘The guys were waiting for me to fail’: Annie Nightingale on battling the BBC

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Still doing a Radio 1 show at 80, the veteran DJ tells Desert Island Discs about Beatles secrets and breaking down a ‘wall of no’

Veteran DJ Annie Nightingale, the first woman to do the job on Radio 1, has spoken of her suspicion that the BBC wanted her to mess up at the beginning of her career with the station in 1970.

 

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So 80 and never a real job. What about moving on now to free up space for a new young talent? younglivesmattertoo

Just as music invokes memories and moments in your life, how you accessed it also brings moments flooding back. Ms Nightingale's shows in the punk era were a great time to be around. Thanks for the music

So the BBC is sexist. Time to get rid of it.

And still shit..

I have alot of fans..but more men than women. This was always so and probably always will be.

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