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Mandy grew up listening to London's legendary landbased pirates and Caroline of the 1970's and by the early 80's found herself in the music scene w ... More >>ith bands like Squeeze, Addicts and UK Subs. For a while she fronted her own Blondie style band whilst volunteering and presenting on various stations such as Radio Jackie, the famed United Biscuits Network and Bromley Sounds. Her music contacts led to her being on the audience guest list on Top of The Pops where her dancing and home dress making skills were noted by the shows choreographer, Flick Colby. This led to more appearances and even designing costumes for the shows dance troupe Legs and Co. However, without an equity card should could not be credited but she and her sister often featured on camera in close up and joining in the dance. She and her sister later made other TV and theatre appearances, such as spots on That's Life, ITV Telethon and with Eamon Holmes and Sylvester McCoy.

In 1984 her enthusiasm and contacts took her to the relaunched Caroline onboard Ross Revenge and she was offered on on-air position which would probably have made her the ships first female DJ. However, she did not find the idea of being the only female onboard a ship of men particularly appealing with no prospect of pay whilst she had a house to run and she declined the offer.

Real life then took over for 20 odd years until by chance she re-entered the radio world in 2007 by attending a radio academy celebration in London. From that event she met various contacts within Caroline and although the opportunity to broadcast was not there at the time she found herself as a regular crew-member on the Ross Revenge helping with painting and maintenance for many years whilst broadcasting on other stations such as Radio Seagull, Maritime Radio in Greenwich, Coast and County in Scarborough, Radio Mi Amigo RSL's in Harwich, The Flash in Portsmouth and numerous other stations around the UK and Europe.

She has made the occasional stand-in broadcast on Caroline over the years but in 2024 took up a regular spot on Thursday night and as of mid 2025 moved to the Friday night/Saturday morning slot where she can share her eclectic love of music and prog rock with everyone.

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Stephen is one of this country’s most experienced music broadcasters with more than 40 years’ worth of programmes for the BBC and commercial radio ... More >>under his belt.