A man who broadcast from his shed for 44 years will finally be heard on BBC local radio.
Deke Duncan, 73, set up his own radio station in his back garden in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1974, with his wife Teresa as his sole audience member, as the signal was beamed into his living room.
The station, Radio 77, is named after a job-lot of second-hand jingles he bought from a US station of the same name.
He was the subject of a BBC Nationwide television report which, after it was recently tweeted by BBC Archive, prompted BBC Three Counties Radio to get in touch.
Mr Duncan has now been offered his own one-hour special, which airs on New Year’s Eve. It will be broadcast to Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire on radio, but will also be available to anyone via BBC iPlayer.
He promises the show will feature some “old school radio”, telling the BBC it will be “radio like it was 30 or 40 years ago with a happy disc jockey, bouncing along from one record to another and just being real cool. It’s going to be rock and roll.”
The DJ said he was initially inspired by pirate station Radio Caroline, which broadcast from a ship off the coast of Essex in the 1960s. He has since moved to Stockport, Greater Manchester, but has continued to broadcast.
The programme will air at 6pm on Three Counties Radio on 31 December.
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