Past Pupils

Adrian Love (1960)

Born in York on 3rd August 1944, Adrian was the son of band leader Geoff Love.

After finishing his education he worked in the music business, dealing with artist management and music publishing, before applying for a job with pirate station Radio City.
Despite his lack of broadcasting experience, the station gave him a chance and Adrian ended up presenting the Breakfast Show from the "Tower of Power".
When City closed down he moved to the BBC Light Programme, then the World Service and, for a while, ran the United Biscuits Network, a factory radio station which employed a number of former pirate DJs, and where Adrian employed a young Dale Winton who was looking for work

London's LBC launched in 1973 and, shortly afterwards, Adrian joined to present a phone-in show. From there he moved to Capital Radio. He was later heard on British Forces Broadcasting, County Sound, Classic FM. His career also took him to Radio 1 and Radio 4 before he presented Love In The Afternoon for three years. He ended his career at BBC Southern Counties Radio.

During one of his broadcasts, he made what has become known as a `Colemanball` stating on air that:-"

It's like learning to play golf. Just when you think you've cracked it, they move the goalposts."

Adrian died in Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells on March 10th 1999, after a second lung collapse aged 54. He never fully recovered from a car crash in December 1997.
After he was hospitalised by the car crash infections brought about the collapse of one lung, followed by the other. Illness kept him away from work for most of 1998.

"Adrian was an ordinary man who had the skill to be an ordinary person on the radio, and this was a touch of genius."