Tony Blackburn – “Retire? I’ve got a job to kill for!”

2025-12-16

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NEW SERIES: Award-winning Radio 4 broadcaster and Daily Mail columnist Jenni Murray discovers life lessons from living legends. This time Jenni hears the extraordinary story of one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. After cutting his teeth at sea on pirate radio, Tony Blackburn became the first voice on Radio One. He won the Radio Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award twice and gained a new generation of fans when he became the very first winner of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here. He tells Jenni how he face...

NEW SERIES: Award-winning Radio 4 broadcaster and Daily Mail columnist Jenni Murray discovers life lessons from living legends.

This time Jenni hears the extraordinary story of one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. After cutting his teeth at sea on pirate radio, Tony Blackburn became the first voice on Radio One. He won the Radio Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award twice and gained a new generation of fans when he became the very first winner of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here. He tells Jenni how he faced success, setbacks, shipwrecks, a famous moment of on-air over-sharing during his divorce and much more with humour and humility.

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