Talk:Night Ride

The paragraph about Jon Curle is interesting, but how accurate is it? For a start, Curle wasn't "approaching retirement" - he was still announcing on Radio 3 at the end of the 1970s and he wasn't that old, as can be seen here:

http://andywalmsley.blogspot.com/2011/04/radio-3-announcers.html

As for the plans hatched in the BBC Club, did this happen before or after the beginning of Peel's Night Ride? Does anyone have more details? My impression as a listener was that Jon Curle was a typical BBC announcer with an arts background who appreciated the new developments in pop in the late 1960s, but was more comfortable in the world of Radio 3, which is where he ended up.

grang354.