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I remember the very first time I heard the wonderfully joyous soul track Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy by The Tams. It was in my local youth club and it was the latest in a series of musical "electrical shocks" that I've lived through since I was very little.

It seems like a dream that forty years on I am playing that and lots of other things that I just love on the radio. Motown and Northern Soul on a Friday night isn't just about music; it's about youth and that fabulous sense of hope that we all had when young and might have lost a little as we've got older.

My journey into radio came through being a journalist. I always wanted to be a reporter with long blonde hair and long legs - shame that life deals you some dodgy cards isn't it?

Precocious five year old

I've also had a passion for music that began when I first heard Doris Day singing "Move Over Darling" and, as a precocious five year old could often be heard wailing: "I yearn to be kissed…."

Like most girls of the sixties I forged a passionate affair with the Beatles and the Beach Boys as well as their soul cousins the Temptations and the Four Tops.

But my life really changed when I started hearing Pink Floyd.

Dark Side of the Moon

One Saturday afternoon in 1973 it was as if the world had stopped turning as I sat waiting for Alan Freeman to play for the very first time on radio the opening heartbeats to Dark Side of the Moon - from then on nothing seemed the same.

More than thirty years later I can still play that album and remember the delight of the first hearing.

These days I live with my husband and best friend of nearly thirty years, two sons who are now into their own music but still respect mine, a cat and my coal fire in the Staffordshire Moorlands.

A couple of years ago I delved into the world of campanology - my efforts can often be heard ringing out - sometimes in tune - from our church tower. I have much to learn and it scares me a bit, but it's strangely addictive.