Annie Nightingale

Annie Nightingale MBE ( born April 1, 1942 in west London ) is England's first female radio DJ. She moderates her own radio show, which is traded as a trendsetting medium of international breakbeat music.

Annie on the radio

1970 Nightingale was a presenter on BBC Radio 1 and was the first female DJ in England at this time. Starting in 1997, Annie Nightingale moderated their legendary Saturday night - Sunday morning radio show " Annie On One" on BBC Radio 1 The shipment was well known far beyond the borders of the United Kingdom.

BBC Radio 1 show as Annie called largest online success ("... radio one 's biggest online success" ) since the available radio 1 keep track shipments on the Internet globally. She is considered the queen of the "after- club -madness ," and directed party interested, not only in England, through the early morning hours. The moderated by Nightingale radio broadcasts are designed very purist. End of the 90s the today world-renowned DJ duo Basement Jaxx was made famous by a first mix in Annie's show. The Annie Nightingale Show is considered as a guide to trends in the international breakbeat music. " I want to show the people the new stuff. " She formulated at the 2005 Glastonbury Festival in an interview.

Since 2003, Annie Nightingale runs a shortened mission on new timeslot on Thursday, she titled to start off their radio show as " new Friday" ( "Thursday will be the new friday -. The new weekend" )

Since the death of John Peel on Radio 1 Nightingale is the longest employed presenter.

Latest bizarreness of the program are the so-called " Tower shows". Since 2004, BBC Radio 1 celebrates the "last Summer Sunrise Party". In the night from Saturday to Sunday at Nightingale invites famous breakbeat DJs to hang up in towers one to watch from there the last sunrise of the year to seven clock. 2004 Annie celebrated on the BT Tower in London, September 2005 on the Berlin TV Tower. The several-hour events will be broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in the UK and worldwide on the Internet. Each handset stand thus, by Nightingales words on the "Global Guest List ", the global guest list and could follow the party regardless of place and time.

TV

From 1978 to 1982 Nightingale hosted the television program " The Old Grey Whistle Test" for television by the BBC.

Film

Nightingale made ​​only radio features also various downstream television documentaries for BBC TV and ITV in 2005 she presented, for example, a documentary on the breakbeat music scene.

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