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Steve Wright (born August 26 1954 in Greenwich , London ) is a Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom . He currently presents the afternoon show on BBC Radio 2 . He rose to prominence in the early eighties while working with Peter Dickson on BBC Radio 1. EARLY CAREER Educated in Southend On Sea , he started broadcasting in the 1970s on Reading's Radio 210 alongside Mike Read . In 1979 he joined Radio Luxembourg, and joined BBC Radio 1 in 1980, presenting a Saturday Evening show, then presenting a Saturday morning show before moving on to present ''Steve Wright in the Afternoon'' from 1981. In 1984 Steve also took over a Sunday morning show entitled ''Steve Wright on Sunday'', which meant he presented weekday afternoons Mondays–Thursdays only, Mark Page & Paul Jordan presenting Friday afternoon's show. In 1986 his Sunday Morning show ended, which meant he was heard 5 afternoons a week again. STYLE His afternoon show had a "zoo" format, with spoof guests, comedy sketches, a "posse" of producers and radio staff who would join in with the DJ links and whoop and cheer every minor announcement. The show became best known for its cast of telephone characters which were created and performed by Gavin McCoy , Peter Dickson and Richard Easter . The show went out of its way to be silly, including regular stories taken from the '' Weekly World News ''. The success of the show even led to a hit single, "I'll Be Back", released under the name " Arnee & The Terminators. British Rock Band The Smiths apparently weren't fans of Wright who became the subject of their 1986 single " Panic " with it's chant of "Hang the DJ" and it's lyric "Hang the blessed DJ/because the music that they constantly play says nothing to me about my life". The song came about after Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr were listening to Radio 1's Newsbeat and a report about the Chernobyl Disaster and were angered when Wright followed up that report by playing " I'm Your Man " by Wham! BREAKFAST WITH BBC RADIO 1 Wright moved to the Breakfast Show in 1994 , but resigned in 1995 due to differences with the Radio 1 management after the station was restructured by new controller Matthew Bannister , which led to many of the more established DJs leaving around this time. He was picked up by the new commercial station Talk Radio , where he presented a Saturday morning show, but returned to the BBC in 1996, when he joined BBC Radio 2 , presenting ''Steve Wright's Saturday Show'' Saturdays 10am-1pm & ''Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs'' Sundays 9-11am. In 1999, Steve took over Radio 2's Weekday afternoon show and he was also the voice of the retro pop show on BBC television, '' Top Of The Pops 2 '' before it was axed. CURRENT WORK Wright can currently be heard on Radio 2 every weekday afternoon from 2pm until 5pm & on Sunday Mornings 9-11am. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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