Saturday shows, before going on to do the Breakfast show as I recall. Most notably starting March 19th 1972, I was given the daunting task (for someone so young and inexperienced) of hosting Tony Blackburn's Breakfast Show while he was busy getting hitched - and honeymooning his first wife, actress Tessa Wyatt ! ".

After about three years of freelancing for the Beeb, Dave decided it was time to try for the newly opened breed of Independent stations that had sprung up firstly in London, and soon followed in most major UK cities, including Newcastle -upon - Tyne, where he would end up presenting some of the very first programmes on Metro Radio. This turned out to be the beginning of a seven-year stint in The North of England. First in Tyneside, then Teeside for five years (where he also got some substantial voice-over exposure for the first time since his early days at the BBC) and lastly West Yorkshire. Eventually in 1981 for career reasons, he made the trek back South to join Essex Radio in time for its launch on September 12th.

There Dave began a radical series of Soul & Dance shows. Broadcast originally from the studio and later live from popular venues, they reflected Essex and East London's appetite for funk music. The shows continued for most of the decade, but with a change in UK Radio style, Dave left Essex Radio and, following some work at London's popular urban pirate stations, became a record label promoter for a short while.

The early 1990's saw Dave as the Creative Producer at London's Choice FM - before moving in 1994 to present at London's Jazz FM for four years.

Then in the summer of 1997 came perhaps the most drastic change of professional direction in a long time. Rather than become what he felt was more or less a "robo-jock", in order to remain in music-based radio, apart from occasional projects, Dave decided to abandon full-time presenting in favour of the not altogether unfamiliar but still pretty scary - and fiercely competitive - world of the professional voice over!

Infinitely preferable he'd concluded though, to constantly living in fear of radio management whims & hostile take-overs. All he had to do now was find enough money to upgrade his home studio, enable it to interface with the outside world, polish up his old skills, learn some new ones - and basically re-invent himself! Then of course, there was the minor matter of telling the rest of the world about it…