Other people who have resided in Branksome Park include Bob Monkhouse, Max Bygraves, J. R. R. Tolkien, Mantovani, Tony Blackburn, Gerry Marsden, Ed Stewart, Archibald Matthias Dunn and Tom Jones.
Hume abandoned doors in the mid-1990s, turning to paintings in household gloss paint on aluminium panel, for these often used appropriated images, including pictures of celebrities (e.g. DJ Tony Blackburn) and animals.
When the record was played on BBC TV's flagship pop music show Top of the Pops in April 1976, host Tony Blackburn announced they could not find Mizell, and so the dance group Pan's People dressed in khaki blouses, shorts and pith helmets, danced along to the record with several extras in animal costumes representing the animals mentioned in the song (e.g., "a chimp and a monkey doing the Suzy-Q").
Russell was 102.2 Smooth Radio's interim weekday breakfast host for eight months from April 2007 while contractual difficulties prevented former Magic 105.4 presenter Graham Dene from joining the station before January 2008; he then moved to the weekend breakfast slot, but was replaced by Tony Blackburn.
Tony Blackburn - "Smooth Weekend Breakfast" (Networked across all Smooth stations)
Tessa Wyatt (born 23 April 1948) is an English actress who first came to the public spotlight through her marriage to Tony Blackburn.
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In 1972, Muggeridge signed up leading BBC broadcasters such as Tony Blackburn, Jimmy Young and Pete Murray to long-term contracts in the face of the challenge from the new local commercial radio stations.
The Kiss 102/105 dance music format was the brainchild of two highly-experienced UK radio programmers, Mike Gray and Guy Hornsby, who first worked together at the original BBC Radio London where they produced the station's leading DJ presenters Robbie Vincent and Tony Blackburn.
The show was first aired on 24 December 2003, and included guests such as Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Jimmy Savile, Noel Edmonds and Tony Blackburn.
Although initially intended only as an album track, BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Tony Blackburn featured it heavily on his morning programme and persuaded EMI, who then issued all Tamla Motown material in the UK, to release it as a single.