CAESAR THE GEEZER

I have only ever been sacked once in my entire career as a radio presenter. I will explain very briefly; Talk Radio Uk was a national radio staion broadcasting on medium wave, The stations concept was to have a talk station with an in your face concept, t6he presenters that were hired were told to be rude and outragious and insult listeners to get reaction on the phones. I joined them and launched the radio station in february 1995 where I became known as a shock jock. I presented the weeknight (Mondays-Fridays) phone in between 22:00 and 01:00. and was joined on some Friday evenings by football agent Eric Hall and lawyer Gary Jacobs. I regularly combined his programme with a similar American show presented by Tom Leykis, alternating between UK and US callers. I continued my ambitious practical jokes during his time at Talk Radio. Another such wind-up involved making listeners believe he was broadcasting his show from the street outside the Talk Radio building in protest at the station's anti-smoking policy. In reality, I was producing his show from inside the studio with a microphone hanging from the window to pick up the background noises of the street below. During my tenure at TRUK, I was often accompanied by the show's Canadian Producer Colin Lloyd, assistants Dixie, Jane and Aphrodite, and the man on the phones, called Tony (although renamed by Caesar as Bogey – "Because he always gets up my nose" being the explanation.) I had a massive following during my time at Talk Radio Uk, the ratings showed that i had more listeners than the breakfast show and that i was the mosst listened to radio show in the country between 10pm and 1am ( Rajar February 1995 ). The station started to get bad publicity from the press as " This station is not British" and people in power were feeling threatened by the way we influenced the public in thinking for themselves, voting for the right things. On numorous occasions we would be mentioned during the prime ministers speech and referencweces were made about my show. This began to frighten the sponsers and advertisers of the station and they decided to get away from controvesy and go into the safer field of sports. I was fired from Talk Radio in September 1995, along with fellow controversial presenter Terry Christian, as part of a station shake up to tackle these issues. Talk Sport as its called now has never achived the same audience which i had back in 1995. Shame really, it had so much potential as being the peoples radio platform, but obviously people in power did not want normal people of this country to stand on their own two feet