David Lloyd

One late February day, I curled up into a ball and sobbed. There’s stress, there’s tiredness, there’s relief, there’s happiness. As...

As 2010 closed, OFCOM confirmed the unthinkable. The suits at Southwark Bridge cracked open another bottle of branded sparkling water to...

I’m not going to have a go at the BBC Radio London presenters and producers who allowed an egregiously offensive caller to persist...

One of the great things about online stations is you have a really good handle on how many people are listening. That can also be a bad...

In pre-Covid days, I’d linger near the window of M & S, whistling, gazing nonchalantly at the window full of frocks, in the hope that a...

I really was not going to post yet more on BBC local radio. Today's announcements make me break my promise. As ever. I write this because...

'Prime Minister, we’re just gonna move your microphone - you’ve just moved away from it.’ Boris was the 8.00 guest on the launch day of...

Summer 1975. The Bee Gees faded in and out, and a friendly voice told me I was listening to an 'IBA test'; long before I knew much about...

Everyone loves local radio. Many of us started our media lives working in it – and know how brilliant the service it provides can be – at...

A hundred years ago, Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba made a pioneering broadcast from Chelmsford. In those early days of radio, it...

George was 18; and he loved his car. It was a Model T Ford - and not many lads his age had one of those bad-boys, given this was May...

The BBC is required to publish its annual plan each year. Just as with every broadcaster, however – and every industry – this year’s is...

The great thing about not running a radio station myself now is a) I sleep at night; and b) I can afford the luxury of spending some time...

Even if it's not a million pounds, you never forget the prizes you win. As a kid, I won a white Alba ‘transistor radio’ from BBC Radio...

In times like this, you turn to your friends. And radio is a friend. Day or night, it’s there to pick-you up, to comfort you, to explain,...

It’s eerie listening back to the 1939 announcement of war on the BBC Home Service. After the solemn words from Chamberlain, Alvar Lidell...

"It is submitted in the interest of broadcasting, not of the British Broadcasting Corporation”. Lord Reith, in making a 1925 submission...

Without hesitation, it's clear that Just a Minute is insufficient to pay tribute to Nicholas Parsons. The strains of 'The Minute...

If you read some media press, it’s easy to form the view that live radio only has one listener left. Thank goodness for the fine work...

The vast majority of podcasts have very few listeners. Just as most books have very few readers. The podcasts that do well must have...