‘The guys were waiting for me to fail’: Annie Nightingale on battling the BBC

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‘The guys were waiting for me to fail’: Annie Nightingale on battling the BBC
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Still doing a Radio 1 show at 80, the veteran DJ tells Desert Island Discs about Beatles secrets and breaking down a ‘wall of no’

Veteran DJ Annie Nightingale, the first woman to do the job on Radio 1, has spoken of her suspicion that the BBC wanted her to mess up at the beginning of her career with the station in 1970.

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