When the station started the programme schedule was as follows.
Originally a lot of the shows had names although the names were dropped (or at least referred to less) after about 6 months.
Monday-Friday
0100 Wild Al Kelly & Mike Hanson
0600 "The Dish". Samantha Meah & Sean Bolder
1000 "UK Today". Scott Chisholm
1300 Anna Raeburn
1500 "Boyd Up". Tommy Boyd
1900 Carol McGiffin & Maurice Dee
2200 Caesar The Geezer
Saturday
0100 "Something For The Weekend". Nick Miller
0600 Maurice Dee
1000 Dr. David Starkey
1300 "Sound Advice". Gary Jacobs
1500 "Books People Read". David Freeman
1700 "World's Biggest Quiz". Dale Winton
1900 "Janet's Planet". Janet Gershlick
2200 "The Other Side". Ronnie Barbour
Sunday
0100 "Something For The Weekend". Nick Miller
0600 Dangerous Dan Erlich
1000 "She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas". Vanessa Feltz
1300 Nancy Roberts
1500 "Success". Sue Plumtree
1600 Gary Newbon
1900 Terry Christian
2200 Jeremy Beadle
Wild Al Kelly lasted 4 weeks, his last show was 10th March 95.
He was replaced by Chad Benson & Mike Hanson who did the Mike & Chad Show from 13th March until their final show 4 weeks later on 7th April.
Their replacement was Ian Collins starting on 10th April.
Samantha Meah was only with the station a few weeks but I failed to note when she left. 4 to 6 weeks would be a good estimate.
Sue Plumtree was gone after her 3rd week although I heard her appear as a guest on someone's show much later in the year. I think Nancy Roberts took the extra hour.
Starting 19/20 August there were the following changes...
Saturday 19th Aug
Gary Newbon's show moved from Sunday to Saturday, switching days with Books People Read & World's Biggest Quiz.
Ronnie Barbour's show now started 3 hours earlier in the old timeslot previously held by Janet Gershlick (Gershlick, I assume, had only been on a 6 month contract).
New to the station and in Ronnie Barbours old 10pm timeslot was James Whale.
Sunday 20th Aug
Dale Winton (also probably only contracted for 6 months) was replaced by Jonny Gould in World's Biggest Quiz starting on 20th Aug.
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Wild Al Kelly not surprisingly got the sack after the controversial telephone call he made to the Chicago Airport's lost property department asking if anyone had seen his two balls in a bag, except he didn't really use the word "balls". Tis on YT if anyone cares to listen. In a pre-Wikipedia world where the Internet was still young, I doubt that many Americans would have known what the word was back then. Was surprised that he didn't go sooner when he called his boss rude names.
Lost hours of sleep, and had to bear a dodgy MW reception listening to Kelly in the Early Hours. Cue listeners asking where he was, and presenters changing the subject immediately,
Winton left because of his television commitments, mostly the lottery and Supermarket Sweep, possibly when the quiz moved from Sundays to Saturdays. Didn't like Jonny Gould - Winton was a lot better. Wonder if they eventually gave the answer to that mystery voice competition? One which was eventually guess correctly was, "we were busy just shooting pool" or something, while the last one I remember was "I probably like to be (or meet) someone famous like Elvis. Ha-ha-ha" or something. I am sure I saw the name Rob Jones as the original host of the quiz, although I remember Winton being the original host.
Plumtree probably got fired for being too controversial, or probably because TRUK was not her thing.
Hard to believe that Gary Newbon's programme would probably be the only one that wouldn't stand out in the Talk Sport era these days.
TRUK was like the TV-am of radio, considering the controversies that it had in its early months.
Also, apart from Jeremy Beadle and Gary Jacobs who had both passed away in 2008 and 2002 respectively, are the all other original TRUK presenters still with us?
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