I try to put together the best that I can find for them. Other journalists were writing about it, but trying to describe music in words is really quite difficult, when actually what you want to do is to play it to someone and say: I've just heard this, I think it's amazing, but maybe it's just me and I'm mad – what do you think? I'm doing for people what they haven't got time, or the access to music, to do. That was my main reason to want to do radio in the first place. "It's always been about looking forward, looking around the corner… and finding out that somebody else likes what you like. "I'm just not interested in going that was this is coming up next," she reiterates to me, in a voice like midnight, when I ring her up, fifty-and-a-bit years after she first took to the airwaves. It was said that being signed to Radio 1 was like playing for England'), for Nightingale, it was, and still is, solely about unearthing something new, getting excited about it, and passing it on. Though for many of her contemporaries in the late 60s and early 70s, the appeal of a radio career was the promise of celebrity ('Radio 1 was an extraordinary magnet for those driven by a deep need and craving, almost an addiction to fame and recognition. 'Answer: I want to be a DJ, because I figure it's the best job in the world!' 'Why worry your pretty little head with such technical matters, dear?’ 'Why would a woman want to be a DJ?' writes Annie Nightingale in the opening pages of her book Hey Hi Hello, recalling the bureaucracy and bewilderment that met her determination to become the BBC's – and Britain's – first female radio DJ.
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