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Ian
Anderson Ian was born, brought up and educated in Lerwick in the Shetland
Islands. At the age of eighteen, he left the islands to spend four years studying in Edinburgh College of Art.
In 1966, while continuing as a student, he was offered summer
vacation work on Radio City, but decided not to go following the death of
Reg Calvert and the invasion of the fort.
In 1968 he did the pilot of a progressive music programme for the
BBC in Scotland. In 1969 he became involved with the progressive music station,
Geronimo before leaving for. Holland where he worked for Radio
Northsea International.
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work for the reintroduction of a news service and he presented one
programme on the Sunday world service.
He came back on board in February as news reader and he alternated
the 8-10 evening programme with Mike Ross and he also presented late
night/early morning shifts on the English service at weekends and he was
regular voice on the Sunday only world service on short wave . He was
fired in the early summer of 1973 for refusing to back on board to relieve
Mike Ross after only one day off the ship from six weeks on board.
He was immediately asked by Chris Cary to set up a news service for
Caroline He went on board the
Caroline ship Mi Amigo in the September of that year to work on the news
and to help with non-stop Radio Atlantis music when the tapes ran out, until
the transmitting mast collapsed and fell into the sea and what remained
came off the insulator. In
1974 he applied for a position at the new local station for
Edinburgh. He was appointed as senior deejay and head of music for
Radio Forth, which commenced broadcasts in January 1975. Ian's
responsibilities at Radio Forth included "keeping the deejays in
line" and drawing up the weekly Forth Forty chart and playlists. Again
cost cutting at Forth lost him is position in 1976. He
refused to accept the offer of a free lance contract doing the same work
and he elected again to return to Lerwick, in the Shetland Isles and
worked as a writer/broadcaster appearing on a wide range of radio
stations. In 1987 he launched his own local radio station on the Shetland
Isles, SIBC, which he continues to run to this day with his wife Inga. My thanks to
Ian Anderson, who after reading my initial biography, kindly provided the
above information and the picture and also to Monitor Magazine, who
provided an earlier photo.
To
read Monitor go to: guernsey.branch@monitor.org.uk
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