Annie Nightingale

Anne Avril Nightingale MBE (born 1 April 1940) is an English radio and television broadcaster. She is now more commonly known by the more informal name of Annie. She was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 and is its longest-serving presenter, followed by John Peel who presented from the launch of the station in 1967 until his death in October 2004. After attending Lady Eleanor Holles School, Hampton, southwest London, and the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) School of Journalism, Nightingale began her career as a journalist in Brighton, East Sussex. In the 1960s she wrote columns for the Daily Express, the Daily Sketch and Cosmopolitan magazine. She started at BBC Radio One on 1 January 1970 with a Sunday evening show. Later she then hosted the singles review show What's New in the early 1970s before graduating to a late-night progressive rock show, which was simulcast on the Radio 2 FM frequency. In the late 1970s she presented a Sunday afternoon request show and by 1980 was presenting a Friday night show and the non-music-based Radio 1 Mailbag. In 1978, Nightingale became the main presenter of the The Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC2 as a replacement for long-time host Bob Harris; during her tenure the show moved away from its traditional bias under Harris towards country music, blues rock and progressive rock and embraced popular modern styles such as punk rock and new wave. She left the series in 1982. (read more on wikipedia)

Links To Peel
Peel was good friends with Annie Nightingale at Radio One and Peel would often host Annie's Sunday Evening Show, when she was away. After Peel's death, she hosted a tribute show to the man on 29 October 2004 (Annie Nightingale), playing her favourite Peel tracks and inviting Dreadzone to do a mix.