Simon Mayo 🇺🇦 @simonmayo Twitter profile

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

3 years

Last day of term (40 years after it started). So. Once more, with feeling…

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3 years

Child 2 is proper poorly and asked me to read some Harry Potter. 2 chapters of Chamber of Secrets went down a treat. Did the accents and everything. More tonight. Child 2 is 28.

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3 years

And my BBC pass was cancelled before I left the building. So the security doors wouldn’t work. Had to be helped out. #notquitethegoldwatch

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3 years

Very happy to accept an MBE tonight. I’m as surprised as you are.

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2 years

So farewell Steve Wright in the Afternoon. Shows of a staggeringly high standard, day after a day, year after year, from a brilliant operator and one of the hardest workers I’ve met. Loved the show Steve.

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I have, rather wonderfully, spent Father’s Day becoming a grandfather. Or (as they say in Denmark) bedstefar (you don’t pronounce the ‘d’). Welcome Oscar. May you be a blessing.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

An ex-Radio 2 host writes... So thank you all for all the wonderful comments here. Quite moved by it all. I’ve done a daily national BBC show for 31 years solid so this might take a while to adjust to...anyway the new radio show will be announced in January. It will be startling.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

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2 years

So this happened. Prince William did the pinning. A class act! We talked about Radio 1 and how he loved Faithless/Insomnia and Spiller/Groovejet. I suggested that’s he was clearly a bit of a clubber…

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

9 months

One of the greats. Awful news. Steve Wright: Radio 2 presenter dies aged 69

Steve Wright: BBC Radio 2 presenter dies aged 69

The DJ hosted programmes on the BBC for more than four decades, including his popular afternoon show.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

3 years

A swift half before the show…

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@simonmayo

4 years

Some news. I am very excited to announce that on March 15 I shall be returning to Drivetime, across the UK on Greatest Hits Radio. It’s a show I love and it feels as though we have unfinished business! Matt Williams will be on sport of course (who else).

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2 years

Look who’s here then

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8 months

Like this photo of Steve in The Times. Note the racks of cartridges behind him. No one used carts like Steve.

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3 years

The only way is…

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@simonmayo

6 years

I’m standing next to Madonna. And I’m wearing a cardigan.

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@simonmayo

3 years

Very saddened today to hear about the death of Janice Long. Followed her to R1, R2 and GHR. She maintained her extraordinary enthusiasm for the music she played on every show she presented. RIP.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

A brief PS to yesterday’s fun and games. Thank you for all the comments here, I’m quite overwhelmed. It’s been wonderful to hear from so many listeners, colleagues and friends. I’ve read them all (I think) and really appreciated every one. Planning a quieter day today.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

So one more All Request Friday from me. Always was the best show to do and the pre-Christmas edition the most festive it is possible to be.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

2 years

And here we go!!!

Greatest Hits Radio

@greatesthitsuk

2 years

We’ve been keeping a big secret … We are delighted to announce that legendary broadcaster @RealKenBruce will be joining the Greatest Hits Radio family in April.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

So. A few things to say. Very sadly, I have decided to move on from Radio 2. Sad to leave the show, sad to leave Jo, sad to leave Wogan House (I thought I’d be dragged out aged 120). But circumstances change...

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

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6 years

Due to a demo outside the BBC, I’ve been told I can’t actually leave Wogan House. Ironically.

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2 years

Very sad news indeed. One of the best. Loved his shows. Terry Hall of The Specials dies aged 63

Terry Hall of The Specials dies aged 63

His distinctively dour voice can be heard on hits like Ghost Town, Gangsters and Too Much, Too Young.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@simonmayo

19 days

Very sorry to hear this. Sending every best wish. The radio will be a poorer place without him He will step down from Sounds of the 70s and The Rock Show at the end of this month due to ill health. Source: BBC News

Johnnie Walker: Radio 2 Sounds of the 70s and Rock Show presenter retires from BBC - BBC News

He will step down from Sounds of the 70s and The Rock Show at the end of this month due to ill health.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

So the secret is out and I said it might be somewhat startling (wait, what?) Scala Radio is the rather fabulous and sparkly new classical music station for the UK. Launch date is March 4th and my show will be 10am-1pm. @ScalaRadio

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2 years

What awful news. A lovely man, always funny and a radio natural. Paul O’Grady, TV presenter and comedian, dies aged 67

Paul O’Grady, TV presenter and comedian, dies aged 67

Husband announces ‘unexpected but peaceful’ death of personality who was known for his drag persona Lily Savage

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

5 years

Remarkable strength from the Rev. Very moving.

BBC Radio 2

@BBCRadio2

5 years

"Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, and neither floods drown it." @RevRichardColes returned to the Breakfast Show with some touching words for #ValentinesDay . 🧡 @zoetheball | @bbcsounds

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3 years

A still life showing last night’s take away bag and this morning’s paper. ⁦ @Dishoom ⁩ ⁦ @thetimes ⁩

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@simonmayo

6 years

Bravo!

Meanwhile in Canada

@MeanwhileinCana

6 years

Whoa

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4 years

He had a stage presence which filled our tiny 5Live studio. He had grace, humour and a fierce intelligence. His last answer on Scorsese was a soliloquy. #chadwickbosemanRIP

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

Thanks to each and every one. Onwards.

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@simonmayo

6 years

And this ladies and gentlemen are the wonderful women and men responsible for Radio 2’s most successful Drivetime show ever. Take a bow y’all.

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@simonmayo

3 years

It is a wonderful thing that the English, just for a few weeks maybe, are represented by Gareth Southgate and his England team.

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@simonmayo

6 years

Well what with one thing and another, it’s been quite a year. Thanks for messages of support and in the words of @smithandburrows let’s hope the next beats the last. Happy 2019 y’all!

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

Good morning. In case you’ve been waiting. And in case you need it. Confessions will be back on your radio in March on @ScalaRadio and here’s the email confessions @scalaradio .co.uk Getting closer!

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@simonmayo

6 years

Fame at last

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@simonmayo

6 years

Elsewhere, whole new radio stations are being planned. With you soon (ish).

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@simonmayo

6 years

Delighted to announce that I’ll be starting my own book club soon. I’ve been keen to keep my association with new authors and wonderful books so the @BooksOfTheYear podcast will kick off shortly. I hope you love it. More info shortly!

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

10 months

What a great loss. A sensational actor. Tom Wilkinson: The Full Monty actor dies at 75

Tom Wilkinson: The Full Monty actor dies at 75

The British star won a Bafta for the hit 1997 film, and was nominated for two Oscars.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

Blimey

John Simpson

@JohnSimpsonNews

6 years

I'm a committed Radio 3 listener, but when Simon Mayo starts at the new classical music station Scala I'll be tuning in. How could my employers, the BBC, have let him slip from their grasp?

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@simonmayo

4 years

I got Pfizered!

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@simonmayo

11 months

Saw the Pogues at Rock City in Nottingham 1985. Mentioned them the following morning on the show I was doing on Radio Nottingham . They heard it, turned up in reception and invited themselves on. Loved them from then. Thank you Shane.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

Not nervous at all ⁦ @ScalaRadio ⁩

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@simonmayo

6 years

Happy Christmas y’all and don’t forget the bread sauce!

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@simonmayo

3 years

Happy to report the cruise is going well ⁦ @wittertainment ⁩

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

3 months

I’m thinking of tweeting a country I know absolutely nothing about and telling them what’s what…

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@simonmayo

6 years

400+ radio stations in UK and only 2 of them are classical. Time for a change! Our whole approach to this will be different. Scala will be an entertainment station. Guests, features, (confessions seems a good idea to me) and some of that all-request magic too. @ScalaRadio

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@simonmayo

1 year

There really isn’t an ironic way of passing this on really. So here it is in all its glory…

Bauer Media Group UK

@bauermedia

1 year

Congratulations to @simonmayo for being crowned commercial radio's Number 1 drivetime show, reaching a record 2.3m listeners (+62% YoY) 👑📈🎙️ #RAJAR

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

Today. No new announcement. Monday. No new announcement. Tuesday. Still no announcement. Wednesday...well now.

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@simonmayo

6 years

Some of the abuse she has had here has been appalling. Support for a show is one thing, assaulting the dignity of a warm-hearted and loyal friend is another.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

Last show with the wonderful ⁦ @jowhiley ⁩ today. Live tunes from ⁦Smith and Burrows. ‘The years go by so past, let’s hope the next beats the last.’

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

2 years

Never mind Ken, here’s our newest signing…

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

1 year

Fanfare…

Greatest Hits Radio

@greatesthitsuk

1 year

Introducing Ken Bruce MBE. ⚡️ We're so proud of @RealKenBruce and his contribution to broadcasting, charity and autism awareness - and couldn't be any happier to have him as part of our Greatest Hits Radio family. Learn more here:

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

So you can find @ScalaRadio on your DAB Radio (might have to do that autotune if it doesn’t find it first time). Or download the app. Or go online. Or shout at your smart speaker. Or I can come round it it’s easier...

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

4 years

So much joy and sadness here. But watch it all.

Anisa Subedar

@TheAnisaSubedar

4 years

It’s 5mins long but it’s worth every second to see the reaction of people when Chadwick Boseman surprises Black Panther fans.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

One other thing. Maybe it needs to be said, maybe not but so there is no room for argument I’ll be clear. I’ve loved working with the exceptional Jo Whiley and when the show was ‘reconfigured ‘ she was my first and only choice.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

1 year

Thanks for all the greetings today. You are very kind. Here’s to old age.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

James Taylor to the Hyde Park crowd. ‘There’s another America out there, bigger than the one represented by that man.. One that has soul. Forgive us.’

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

I’ll continue with the (flagship) film show on 5Live with Mark Kermode and, beyond that, other radio adventures beckon! But for now it’s just the sadness of leaving. Radio 2 has been a wonderful place for me-my happiest radio I think. Our listeners are really quite extraordinary.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

Saying hello...

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@simonmayo

1 year

Oppenheimer and his favourite uncles

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@simonmayo

6 years

Appreciated all the messages today, it was great to get back on air and get show one done. Now for the tricky follow up. Onwards...

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

This is awesome

Royal Institute of Navigation

@at_RIN

6 years

Starlings swirling through the morning skies of #Spain #RIN #Navigation #wildlife #nature #murmuration #starlings

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@simonmayo

1 year

Read this by Allan Little on his friend George Alagiah. A wonderful tribute. Empathy was George’s great strength, he radiated it

Empathy was George’s great strength, he radiated it

You always walked away from him liking the human race more - writes his friend and colleague.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

On the BBC news site for the right reasons this time.

Simon Mayo to launch classical station Scala Radio after leaving Radio 2

The former BBC Radio 2 host will lead the line-up on Scala Radio.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

I’ve spent the last 2 years writing and talking about Dartmoor Prison, the setting for Mad Blood Stirring (set in 1815). Well this morning, I’m there-inside these walls. Same talk but this time it’s to the present day prisoners. Exited and nervous in equal measure.

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@simonmayo

2 years

Quite the first caller

Greatest Hits Radio

@greatesthitsuk

2 years

That caller sounded familiar...

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@simonmayo

4 years

A witterchristmas with you at 10pm. It’s better than Mrs Brown’s Boys.

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@simonmayo

8 months

Best actor and his support team

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@simonmayo

3 years

The radio is still working

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@simonmayo

5 years

Fabulous

BBC Arts

@bbcarts

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The inimitable @stephenfry tells the @hayfestival about a hilarious moment while recording the audiobook for #HarryPotter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. #HayFestival2019

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

9 years

Always the right tone, always the right phrase, always a radio genius. RIP Sir Terry.

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@simonmayo

4 years

Sometime soon, I need to stop watching CNN. Maybe Tuesday.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

7 years

@piersmorgan @IainDale And on #InternationalWomenDay time to remember the TV presenter who thought it was ok to attack the ‘rabid feminists’ on the ‘vacuous’ women’s march in London.

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@simonmayo

4 years

New show update. So quick poll. Confessions. Yes or no?

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@simonmayo

3 years

Today’s ⁦ @wittertainment ⁩

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@simonmayo

6 years

So by all means discuss what’s happening here, but let’s keep some civility. Thank you. Here endeth the lesson. And (one very final thing), as anyone who has worked here will attest, the producers and APs are a class apart. Brilliant production teams make our jobs a joy.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

2 years

So farewell then blue tick. It has gone up in smoke Just like your rocket

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

3 years

After 21 years (and as many drummers) the Flagship Film Show @wittertainment will make its final 5Live voyage on April 1st. But like Tap, we’ll be back … Stay tuned. Long live Wittertainment.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

It’s that first-out-the-door-gets-the-spiderweb-in-the-face time of year.

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@simonmayo

5 years

I think you’re all fabulous. Happy and healthy new year one and all.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

5 years

He will will missed terribly

BBC North West

@BBCNWT

5 years

Buxton born Tim Brooke-Taylor, the comedian and actor, has died this morning from COVID-19.

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@simonmayo

1 year

Only very occasionally were you mesmerised by a Top of the Pops performance. Sinéad was one of those. A unique voice (and the fiercest handshake).

Variety

@Variety

1 year

Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” has died. She was 56.

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5 years

Gin anyone?

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@simonmayo

4 years

Thanks y’all! Great to back on All Request Friday. Loved it all.

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@simonmayo

3 years

The future. Wittertainment, but with no interruptions.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

4 years

New show update. Thanks for the overwhelming response to news of the return of Drivetime on @greatesthitsuk . It really has been quite overwhelming. @Mattm_Williams and I are chomping at the bit. More to follow. For your diary then. 4pm March 15th.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

2 years

I’ve retweeted this before but having watched it again, if anyone has signed off with greater style and generosity I’d be very surprised.

BBC Radio 1

@BBCR1

2 years

Here it is, the final @scott_mills link on Radio 1 😢 For one last time, Scott… #LoveYouBye ❤️

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5 years

Current ⁦ @wittertainment ⁩ mood

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3 years

Cruise ahoy ⁦ @wittertainment ⁩

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@simonmayo

1 year

Oh hello

RADIOWATCHER 📻 👀

@RadioWatcher

1 year

BBC Radio 2 loses 1m listeners as Ken Bruce helps Greatest Hits Radio grow #rajar #ukradio #listeningfigures #radionews

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

So, this 👇

Magic Classical

@ScalaRadio

6 years

Breaking the mould of classical music in the UK. Coming soon... #scalaradio

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

6 years

This sleep thing doesn’t really work when you’ve got a new radio station to launch

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

10 months

Very sad news. A trailblazer!

Katie Razzall

@katierazz

10 months

Annie Nightingale: Legendary Radio 1 DJ dies at 83

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

1 year

Happy to report that the Boss is still the Boss. And more so than ever.

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@simonmayo

9 months

An amazing performer. Just watching his show was breathtaking. Even when carts and cart machines were extinct, he would not let them go. A fabulous creative whirlwind of a presenter.

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Simon Mayo 🇺🇦

@simonmayo

5 years

Child 1 ‘have you got anything planned for father’s day?’ Me ‘not sure it works like that.’

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