At one time Steve Wright's and Simon Bates’s radio producer on BBC Radio 1, he left to produce the acclaimed BBC radio drama version of Len Deighton’s Bomber, and the award-winning 1995 Channel 4 documentary Edward VIII: The Traitor King.
Over Nino Rota's theme to Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, Bates read a sentimental story sent by a listener, ending with a record chosen by the correspondent.
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His voice — essentially a sped-up, slightly Americanised version of the standard Received Pronunciation associated with BBC Radio 4 — was unusual in that most Radio 1 DJs had a more informal 'DJ' voice.
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After radio DJ Simon Bates first aired A Different Corner on Radio 1, he rated the song so highly that he immediately played it again from the beginning.
After unqualified endorsement from BBC Radio 1 presenter Simon Bates and others, media interest resulted in a recording contract with Arista Records, who re-released the album under the same title.
12 December - Simon Bates takes his Smooth Radio Breakfast show to Afghanistan for a week of programmes with British troops from Camp Bastion.
The station's flagship breakfast show is presented by Simon Bates, who left Classic FM after more than a decade to join Smooth, and revived some of the features from his Radio 1 days, such as Our Tune.