Annie Avril Nightingale is an English radio and television broadcaster. She was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 in 1970. She has specialised in championing new and underground music. In 2002, she was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
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Annie Avril Nightingale CBE is an English radio and television broadcaster. She was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 in 1970, and is its longest-serving presenter. She has specialised in championing new and underground music, and has also led the movement and encouraged other women to become DJs and broadcasters. As a DJ, she has travelled and performed all over the world from Ibiza to Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Barcelona, Warsaw and at major European festivals such as Sziget in Budapest, Roskilde in Denmark. In 2002, she was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire for her services to radio broadcasting. While in Havana in 2004 she was injured during a mugging, resulting in multiple injuries requiring an air-lift to a London hospital, now part of her image. She is also a regular contributor to BBC Four news programmes such as The Four News Programme, The World At One and The World This Weekend. The award in 1996 for her coverage of the radio scene from 1996-2004 was recognised in 1996 with the award for Radio Personality of the Year by the Radio Association.
She currently lives in London with her husband and their two children, a son and a daughter. The couple have a son, a daughter and a son-in-law, and a step-son, both of whom are also radio presenters. She also has a daughter, a granddaughter and a great-granddaughter, who is a TV presenter and presenter herself. She lives with her family in London and has two sons, a grandson and two step-children. She and her husband have three children and one step-grandchild, who lives in New York and Los Angeles. They have two grandchildren and one great-great-grandson. The family have three sons and one grandchild. The nightingale has been awarded a CBE for services to broadcasting in 1996. She started at BBC Radio1 on 8 February 1970 with a Sunday evening show. Her first broadcast on the BBC was on 14 September 1963 as a panellist on Juke Box Jury, and she contributed to Woman’s Hour in 1964 and hosted programmes on BBC Light Programme in 1966.
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