James Whale, the most prominent of the first generation of UK talk radio hosts has died aged 74, with a fellow presenter confirming his passing on air on Monday.
“The rudest man on radio”, Broadcaster James Whale who was first diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2000 and who spoke frequently of his battle with the disease after it returned from 2020 onwards died on Monday morning, it was announced. While he got the start to his 60-year career in local radio, Whale shot to prominence in the United Kingdom on weekend TV in the 1980s and then when national independent radio stations — which had been banned with a tightly controlled government monopoly under the BBC until 1990 — were allowed to be operated legally for
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