Weekends

David Allen

David Allen

1. How did you get into radio?
By persistence and agreeing to do anything at any time.

2. What was your first broadcast?
It was on hospital radio where I presented a sports programme but professionally it was a travel shift on a commercial radio station in Bournemouth.

3. What other jobs have you done besides broadcasting?
I was a professional photographer and I was also the Manager of a sports shop.

4. What would you like to be if you weren't a radio presenter?
A millionaire playboy.

5. What would listeners be surprised to learn about you?
I am Pierce Brosnan’s double for the love scenes in the James Bond films.

6. Which person would you most enjoy being stuck in a lift with?
A lift engineer.

7. If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?
See question 4.

8. What is your worst habit?
I am perfect.

9. Tell us about your 1st:
Car: Morris 1000.
Job: a Father Christmas photographer at a department store at Christmas.
Kiss: My memory is not that good. 
Record/CD: The New Vaudeville Band and Winchester Cathedral. 

10. What is your favourite:
Food: Full English Breakfast
Sandwich: Tuna and mayonnaise
Place in Oxfordshire: Burford
Item of Clothing:  Pair of swimming trunks because that means I am lying by a pool sunbathing which is one of my favourite pastime.
Song:  Embraceable You written by George and Ira Gershwin
Singer: Frank Sinatra
Film: When Harry Met Sally for various reasons. Its funny and romantic at the same time, it was the first film I went to see with my wife Hazel when we first went out together, great performances from Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan and its filmed in New York. 
TV Show: The Good Life (It still makes me smile even though I know the scripts off by heart)