Enjoy Celebrity Radio’s Ken Bruce BBC Life Story Interview…..
Ken is one of the most loved DJ’s in the UK!
Bruce has presented BBC Proms in the Park for numerous years and is best known for ‘Pop Master’ at 10.30am @ R2.
He is Radio 2’s regular commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest, and presented the Eurovision Song Contest Previews from 1989–1991 on BBC1.
He is a regular presenter of the long-running Friday Night is Music Night.
Enjoy a rare interview recorded at BBC Radio 2 Western House:
Bruce was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He attended Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow, before training as a chartered accountant.
He began his broadcasting career with the Hospital Broadcasting Service in Glasgow.
Bruce became a staff announcer for BBC Radio 4 Scotland and then BBC Radio Scotland before it went on the air in 1978.
He also presented a Saturday morning show.
He occasionally makes appearances in the “Dictionary Corner” on Channel 4’s Countdown, the latest during the week of 11 April 2011.
When the original presenter Richard Whiteley died in 2005, Bruce said: “[he was] such a nice man – that was the defining quality of him, a genuinely nice man. And he had no real ego.
He’s still on the UK’s number one radio station from 9.30am at Radio 2 and his ratings are better than ever.
His quiz ‘Pop Master’ is the most popular quiz in radio.
In 1980, he took on the mid-morning slot and then, in 1983, he presented a daily afternoon current affairs show.
He hosted the Ken Bruce Show on the BBC World Service in the late 1980s.
Search ‘Radio 2’ for Belfield’s other interviews with the Stars of the UK’s number 1 radio station.
Recorded 2009 by Alex Belfield for the BBC and Celebrity Radio.
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