R.I.P. Anne Nightingale

[Newportnobby]

A sad loss. Radio 1's first female presenter. Used to watch her a lot on TOGWT.

[snitchthebudgie]

One of the best!

[Bob Tidbury]

Sad news indeed may she RIP.

[Bealman]

Would she have been on before I left for Oz in 1974? The name rings a bell

[Malc]

She would have been on Radio 1 then and on Whistle Test.

[crewearpley40]

Here's a link

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67955757

Even @Bealman George can see the obituary

[Bealman]

Thanks for that, Chris. Yeah, I remember her on the Old Grey Whistle Test. 

[joe cassidy]

I used to like her Sunday evening broadcast on Radio 1 in the late seventies

[Bob G]

I find it interesting how Whistle Test got its name.

When the music moguls got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the old greys – doormen in grey suits. Any song the doormen could remember and whistle, having heard it just once or twice, had passed the old grey whistle test.

RIP Anne

Bob

[Newportnobby]

I'd heard the same story except the 'old greys' were cleaners at the Beeb who used to wear grey tabards

[Bob G]

I'd also heard it was old grey haired men, going about their daily walk to work

[Newportnobby]

You are 'whispering Bob' and I claim my £5