| Bill Buckley | |
| Birth name | William Buckley |
| Born | 8 January 1959 Birmingham, UK |
| Show | 'Bill Buckley' |
| Station(s) | LBC 97.3 |
| Time slot | 1 - 5am GMT/BST Tuesday - Friday |
| Style | Talk radio/Phone-in |
| Country | England |
| Previous show(s) | BBC Southern Counties Radio |
| Website | billbuckley.net |
Bill Buckley (William Anthony Buckley, born 8 January 1959 in Birmingham, United Kingdom) is a former That's Life! co-presenter and occasional television personality, who is currently an over-night presenter on London talk radio station LBC 97.3. Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located LBC 973 is a London-based talk and phone-in radio station It is one half of the latest incarnation of LBC, the news and speech service which was Britain's first commercial Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London Western European Summer Time ( WEST) is a summer Daylight saving time scheme 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Talk radio is a Radio format containing discussion about topical issues Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located That's Life! was a magazine-style Television series on BBC between 1973 and 1994, presented by Esther Rantzen London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. This article is about radio broadcasting for other uses see Radio (disambiguation. LBC 973 is a London-based talk and phone-in radio station It is one half of the latest incarnation of LBC, the news and speech service which was Britain's first commercial
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Career
Bill’s flycasting break came in 1982. While working as a newspaper reporter in his native West Midlands, he was chosen from thousands of hopefuls to present the celebrated consumer programme, That's Life!, on BBC1 with Esther Rantzen. That's Life! was a magazine-style Television series on BBC between 1973 and 1994, presented by Esther Rantzen Esther Louise Rantzen CBE (born) is an English Journalist and Television presenter who is best known for her long stint in That's His mother had entered him for the job without his knowing.
After three years, he left to become a reporter for the BBC’s Holiday Programme, and spent the next six years traveling the world. Other TV appearances include Call My Bluff, Blankety Blank, All Star Secrets, Songs of Praise, Children in Need (which he has since claimed on his LBC show that he loathed doing, being contractually obliged), and a huge variety of regional work in the south for Meridian Television on subjects as diverse as consumer affairs, politics and amateur film-making. Call My Bluff was a long-running British Game show (adapted for BBC Television by Philip Hindin from a short-lived US Blankety Blank is a British comedy game show based on the Australian game show Blankety Blanks which was compared by Australian television icon Graham All Star Secrets was an NBC daytime game show the aired from January 8 to August 10 1979 Songs of Praise is a BBC television programme based around traditional Christian Hymns With an average of nearly 3 million viewers weekly it BBC Children in Need is an annual British charity appeal organised by the BBC. Meridian Broadcasting (now legally known as ITV Meridian is the holder of the ITV franchise for the south and south east of England.
From 1989, he has also presented daily radio shows for numerous commercial and BBC stations in the South, London and Manchester. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
Bill’s acting experience includes playing Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at Leatherhead. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the second British Musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Leatherhead is a small town in the County of Surrey, England, on the River Mole. He also toured in the black comedy Widow’s Weeds, and starred in numerous pantomimes. The Christmas before last, for example, he played King in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Theatre Royal, Brighton with 60s icon Twiggy and Peak Practice’s Simon Shepherd. Jack and the Beanstalk is an English Fairy tale, closely associated with the tale of Jack the Giant Killer. Brighton ( is a town on the south coast of England and with its neighbour Hove, forms the city of Brighton and Hove. Twiggy (born Lesley Hornby; 19 September 1949) is an English Supermodel, Actress, and Singer, now also Peak Practice is a British Drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale &mdash a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Simon Shepherd (born 20 August 1956 in Bristol, England) is a British actor Early life He went to school at Clifton College
Bill was senior continuity announcer for Channel 5 Television from its launch for five-and-a-half years. His irreverent style proved influential throughout the industry. He is particularly well remembered by many for his wonderfully camp commentary over the closing credits of the channel's late-night/early-morning run of Prisoner: Cell Block H. Prisoner is an Australian television Soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre a fictional women's Prison
Bill has also written a hit song. He provided both the words and music for Su Pollard’s number two hit single, Starting Together. Susan Georgina Pollard (born 7 November 1949 is an English Comedy actress, most famous for her roles in the sitcoms Hi-de-Hi! Bill regularly reviews the national Press on “Breakfast” on BBC2, BBC News 24 and Sky News. BBC News is the BBC's 24 hour rolling news television channel in the United Kingdom and also available in the Republic of Ireland.
LBC Radio Show
Bill’s voice should be particularly familiar to LBC 97. 3’s listeners because he has filled in for many of the station’s presenters for several years now. After being a staple of the weekend night-time slot since 2006 (also often covering weeknights when relevant presenter was away), from 24 May 2007 the show shifted every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings from 1. Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. 00 until 5. 00am, replacing the outgoing Adrian Allen. Adrian Allen is a radio presenter who is well-known for his previous work at LBC 97 Anthony Davis has since taken over his old slot of Saturday to Monday mornings. Anthony Davis (born November 16, 1974, London) is a broadcaster and entertainer Other than the different days, the show format remained the same. Until 2008, on Tuesday mornings from 2. 00am Bill was joined by Alan Capper, LBC's correspondent in New York to discuss all things American. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous On Tuesday and Thursday mornings between 1. 00am and 2. 00am was the Rolling Quiz (sponsored by AQA); where listeners correctly answer a question, and then set the next one. Any Question Answered, or AQA 63336, is a premium-rate SMS mobile question and answer service based in the UK, operated by Issuebits Ltd Although due to its popularity the quiz moved to every morning between 3. 00am and 4. 00am, in late 2007, and the AQA sponsorship has subsequently been dropped. Bill loves his food, and began presenting LBC's Sunday Afternoon Food and Drink programme from 20 January 2008, replacing Jeni Barnett who moved to weekday afternoons. Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Jeni Barnett (born 24 March[[ 949]] in London) is an English Actress and TV presenter who grew up in Borehamwood. Recipes by both Bill and his listeners can often be found on his programme's daily blog page.
Bill's presenting style is genial, relaxed and camp. Unlike many other presenters, who prefer to keep the majority of their personal lives separate from their shows, Bill often shares what has been happening in his personal life (or at very least selected highlights of it), and typically opens his show with a lengthy monologue update of what he has been up to. One particular saga that listeners followed with him through 2006, was his meeting of an American man identified as Harry or H McC, and Bill's whirlwind romance with him (Bill is openly gay), including a much anticipated trip to the States to visit him, and H McC eventually calling the relationship off. More recently, he has shared with listeners how he has become friendly with the owner of the local dry cleaners that he visits, and his dilemma of how to approach the man on asking him out for a drink. Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for Clothing and Textiles using an organic Solvent rather than Water. Although not a football fan (or any sports, for that matter), Bill's dream man is Thierry Henry, which he frequently reminds us during the course of his programmes. Thierry Daniel Henry ( born 17 August 1977
Bill is notable for enjoying 'singalongs' with listeners who call in, claiming a broad knowledge of contemporary and classical music. Indeed, the show was for a while introduced by the Shep Pettibone's remix of Level 42's hit single, "Something About You". Robert E Pettibone Jr (born 15 July 1959, better known as Shep Pettibone) is a Record producer, remixer songwriter and club DJ Level 42 are an English Pop rock and Jazz-funk band. The group had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s and have " Something About You " is a single released by British New Wave band Level 42 in 1985 in advance of its inclusion on the album World Machine the The track was chosen in a vote by listeners a few weeks after he first landed his regular weekend slot in 2006, and has been used ever since. Bill's show often delves nostalgically into the recent past - for example, reminding listeners of confectionery and beverages of old; indeed, cooking is a common and well-liked theme of his show. He is well-known for his pernickety use of correct grammar and will often jump onto any mistake a caller makes, alienating them and reminding us that he sees the servive he provides to be for himself and not LBCs advertisers. Regular features of his programme include 'caption contests': competitions to come up with the best headline for an interesting newspaper story. There are also joke competitions, including 'Knock, Knock', 'Doctor, Doctor', 'A man walks into a pub. . . ' and 'What do you call a. . . '; and finally poetry and other word-based competitions, including limericks, acrostics, clerihews, haikus, recent addition "Definitials" (one word-per-line acrostics, with the title "borrowed" from a similar Radio Times competition), occasionally palindromes, and a number of other word-play games ("Cockney Rhyming Slang for 2007", and "Celebrity Gravestones", being just two such examples). A limerick is a five-line Poem with a strict form originally popularized in English by Edward Lear. An acrostic (from the late Greek akróstichon, from ákros, "top" and stíchos, "verse" is a Poem or other Writing A clerihew is a very specific kind of short biographical humorous verse. is a form of Japanese poetry. Previously called For the US radio series see WHYY-FM. Radio Times is the BBC 's weekly Television and Radio programme A palindrome is a word phrase number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words Rhyming slang is a form of Slang in which a word is replaced either by another word or phrase that rhymes with it or by the first word of such a phrase in which
As well as being sometimes nicknamed "Ten Pantos" by regular contributors to his show (see 'Pantomime' section), Bill has also more recently been occasionally nicknamed "Marmite" by some listeners, in response to how people either love or loathe him and his many word-based competitions, just as people love or loathe Marmite. Marmite (/ˈmɑːmaɪt/ is the name given to two similar food spreads a British version produced in the United Kingdom and South Africa and the other in New
Bill leaves his mobile phone on, primarily to use the predictive text function to decrypt some contributors wrongly worded texts. The phone also gives off a loud cockerel sound when a text is received, giving Bill scope for many innuendos, with the catchphrase "Ooh, pardon my cock!".
In mid 2007, after Bill had taken over the weeknight slot, it became a running joke for people to phone in during the straight-to-air last half hour of the preceding Clive Bull show impersonating Bill. Clive Bull (born January 23 1959) is an award-winning radio talk show host on LBC 97 This continued until Bull's straight-to-air segment was dropped in a shakeup by new management in Autumn 2007.
Pantomime
Nicknamed 'Ten Pantos' by LBC fans, Bill has appeared in a number of shows. Panto has allowed him to shine both as an actor and vocalist. Bill's love of performing in panto is clear from a diary entry during his stint in Cinderella at the Hawth, Crawley, in December 2004:
"Time flies when you're being frozen by fairy magic, yanking false legs from scheming ugly sisters and waltzing at royal balls in a powdered wig. The Hawth Theatre is an arts and entertainment complex located in 38 acres of woodland half a mile from the town centre of the English town of Crawley. "
Trivia
Bill makes frequent scatalogical references during his LBC show.
- Bill shares his birth date with David Bowie, Shirley Bassey, Stephen Hawking and Elvis Presley. David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger. Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey DBE (born 8 January 1937 Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh Singer. Stephen William Hawking CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942 is a British theoretical physicist.
- Bill's musical prowess was already well developed when at school. He was a pupil at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School For Boys in Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham. The school has a church organ in its main assembly hall, and Bill used to play the organ to accompany the morning singing of hymns.
- Bill appeared as an "extra" in Central Independent Television's long running soap Crossroads. Central Independent Television, more commonly known as Central and now legally ITV Central Ltd, is the British Independent Television contractor Crossroads is a British Television Soap opera set in a Motel near Birmingham, England. His only spoken words - all two of them - "Yeah, sure" - were to 'Kevin Brownlow'. In 1981 when the protagonist character 'Meg Richardson' was axed, Bill released a record called 'Meg Is Magic' in support of her. Bill has since claimed that he was coaxed into performing the record to try and drum up publicity; the record flopped and went unnoticed; the record production company subsequently went out of business.
- Although not known to each other, Bill also shares a path of destiny with Carol Vorderman. Carol Jean Vorderman MBE (born 24 December 1960 is a British Television personality best known for being a long-standing co-presenter of Channel In the Spring/early Summer of 1982, both Carol's mother and Bill's mother had noted Press advertisements for presenters new to television. Without hesitation both mothers sent in applications on their behalf. Carol and Bill were unaware of this until they had been chosen from thousands of hopefuls, Bill to present That's Life, Carol to show off her maths genius on Countdown. A countdown is the backward counting to indicate the seconds days etc
- One of Bill's biggest fears is pigeons. He claims that he can't stand them when they flap up around him. He has recently undergone therapy for this fear. Its early days but Bill has said on his radio show that the therapy is starting to work.
- Former fellow presenter Iain Lee had a running gag of claiming to his listeners that Bill Buckley was the only black presenter on LBC. Iain Lee (born on 9 June 1973) is a British Comedian, Television, and Radio presenter. (This was not true, Bill Buckley is white. )
- Bill claims to be extremely intelligent and a member of the high-IQ society MENSA, whose entry test he claimed to be easy. Mensa is the largest oldest and most famous high-IQ society in the world
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