Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Annie Nightingale, the first female presenter of a BBC Radio 1 show and co-host of The Old Grey Whistle Test, has died after a ...

That would be my mum and dad’s record collection in the early fifties, pre-rock’n’roll, so Mantovani – a great favourite of mine – Johnny Mathis and Perry Como. We had a radiogram in the corner of the ...

Pioneering BBC DJ Annie Nightingale — the first (and for 12 years, only) female DJ on the network’s Radio 1 station, whose embrace of multiple genres of music cast a vast influence on the country’s ...

Annie Nightingale, the first female presenter of a BBC Radio 1 show and co-host of The Old Grey Whistle Test, has died after a short illness. She was 83. A statement to the press attributed from her ...