Send us a text On the 23rd February, 2023 is was announced the football commentating legend John “Motty” Motson had died at the age of 77. He started working on Match Of The Day in 1971, and covered 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 29 FA Cup finals for BBC Sport before retiring from the organisation in 2018. I had the great pleasure of interviewing him in 2005 when he was promoting his latest book, Motsons FA Cup Odyssey which gave me a chance to sample first his incredibl...

Send us a text I’m a bit short of time this week so I’m just going to okay you the interview without all the preamble that usually comes with my weekly podcast. As you’re well aware I’m sure the World Cup has started and this week you can hear an interview I did with Uri Geller, the spoon bending physic who back in 2002 asked the whole nation to collectively try and heal David Beckham’s famous metatarsal injury which threatened his participation in that year’s World Cup competition. E...

Send us a text Hi everyone, and welcome to episode 7 of this new season of Tales From a very minor celebrity, a delve into my celebrity archive a look back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV…. This week you’ll hear an interview I did with a woman who has a handbag named after her and recorded one of the most iconic love songs of all time, Je t’aime…she is Jane Birkin. Born in London Birkin began her career as an actress, appearing in minor roles until...

Send us a text Hi everyone….we’re up to episode 6 of season 2 of tales from a very minor celebrity, a look back at some of my favourite interviews during my 35 year plus media career. Now Jade Goody was born 5 June 1981 and died 22 March 2009. She came to public prominence in 2002 when she appeared on the third series of the Channel 4 reality show Big Brother. She went on to star in her own television programmes after her eviction from the show, which in turn led to her launching...

Send us a text Hi everyone, and welcome to episode 5 of this new season of Tales From a very minor celebrity, a delve into my celebrity archive a look back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV…. Michael Ciaran Parker better known by his stage name Michael Barrymore was born in 1952. During the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. he hosted shows such as Strike It Luck, My Kind Of People, My Kind Of Music, Kids Say The Funniest Things, and his own variety show, Barry...

Send us a text Hi everyone, and welcome to episode 4 of this new season of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity, a delve into my celebrity archive and a look back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV…. and as I always say I hope you will like listening to them as much as I did recording them. Now this week my guest is not so much flesh and blood, but rather metal and oil…whilst working at a radio station in Essex I had the pleasure of being invited to do s...

Send us a text Hi everyone, and welcome to episode three of this new season of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity, a delve into my audio archive and a look back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV…. I hope you will like them as much as I did recording them. This week you’ll hear an interview I did with a young lady called Tandile. She was performing with a South African group of musicians called the Michael House Big Band, 22 musicians travelling from t...

Send us a text Hi everyone, and welcome to episode 2 of this new season of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity, a delve into my celebrity archive and a look back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV…. I hope you will like them as much as I did recording them. Now this week it’s the turn of Ruby Wax, the American-British actress, comedian, writer, television personality, and mental health campaigner. A classically-trained actress, she was with the Royal Sh...

Send us a text Hi everyone, and welcome to a new season of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity. Yes I’m back and this time I’ll be delving into my celebrity archive and looking back at some of my very favourite interviews from my career in radio and TV….now to be included as a favourite they can either be because the person is really nice, it was a particularly funny interview or just very interesting or even controversial for some reason or another… I hope you will like them as much as I did r...

Send us a text Hello once again and thank you for once again joining me for another edition of ‘Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity’, a look back at my life in TV and radio and a delve into my celebrity archive looking back at some of the many interviews I have done over the years and continue to do as well.. This week is a bit of a milestone for my podcast, episode 20!….so I have decided to have a short break….it’s ok….I know there will be a weeping and a waling and gnashing of teeth with that...

Send us a text Hola Todos, that’s hello everyone in Spanish just in case you didn’t know…and welcome to another edition of Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity…a look back at my career in radio and TV and a delve into my celebrity archive looking back at some of the more memorable celebrity intervierws that I have done over the past 30 plus years. This week English singer songwriter Ralph McTell who wrote the brilliant Streets Of London…and then Jose Feliciano responsible for a song which I hea...

Send us a text Hello everyone and thank you for joining me for another edition of Tales from A Very Minor Celebrity… now in this weeks episode you’ll be hearing again from one of the many musical stars that I interviewed over the years…today Alan Price the original keyboardist with the animals, who had a string of hits including the iconic House Of The Rising Sun…and as the long running Austrian soap Neighbours ends today after 37 years on UK screens, and transmitted all over the world,...

Send us a text Hi there..and thank you all once again for tuning in for another edition of tales from a very minor Celebrity. This week you’ll be once agin hearing from two musical greats…a two part interview with Petula Clark and also a chat I had with the late Natalie Cole who sadly died in 2015….

Send us a text Thanks for joining me again for another edition of tales from a very minor celebrity…a look back at my life in the media, specifically radio and TV and the many celebrities I’ve interviewed and adventures I’ve had during that time…and continue to do so..I still work in radio as a freelance roving reporter for a radio station based in Colchester, a newly created city in the UK for anyone listening from another country...and there are loads of you…always really amazes me how many...

Send us a text Welcome to anther episode of my podcast Tales From a Very Minor celebrity, a delve into my celebrity archive, a look back at some of the very famous people who I have interviewed over the years and the stories behind those interviews…we continue a series of well known musicians and singers and in this episode you’ll hear from Roger Mcguinn, frontman of the legendary Byrds, considered by critics to be among the most influential bands of their era, and then the late Robert ...

Send us a text Thanks for tuning into another episode of ‘Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity’, and the second in a series looking back at some of the very famous singers and musicians who I’ve spoken to during my broadcasting career…this week you’ll be hearing from Marie Osmond and the “Godmother of Soul”, Patti Labelle.

Send us a text This week it’s the start of another series of interviews with a common thread running through them…these are all musicians and singers I have been lucky to chat to over the years…and we start with a lady who comes from my neck of the woods in the UK, the county of Essex and the lady concerned is singer songwriter Alison Moyet noted for her powerful bluesy voice.

Send us a text In this week Tales From A Very Minor Celebrity it’s the final two stars from shows which I grew up watching and which were huge hits during their time; coming up Robert Vaughn who played Napoleon Solo in the TV series The Man From Uncle and one of the coolest spy’s of his generation….but first Mike Farrell best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt in the television series M.A.S.H.

Send us a text Hello and welcome again to another episode of tales From A Very Minor Celebrity…..now I know I said last week that you’d be hearing from the man from Uncles Robert Vaughn and Mike Farrell from M.A.S.H…the final two stars of another couple programmes from my youth…but there’s been a small change of plan due to a little celebration that our Queen is having at the moment.…I’ve postponed that episode until next week now because as this is the Queens Platinum Jubilee and the whole o...

Send us a text Hello again and thank for downloading this weeks episode of Tales From a Very Minor Celebrity…I must say that this short series of podcasts featuring the stars of programmes from my youth are proving very popular..programmes from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s do seem to hold a special place in many of our hearts and the reruns continue to get very decent viewing figures. Again this week we’ll be hearing from another two stars from programmes that had huge following back in the day an...