While his future colleagues were helping to build the remaining studios, across the city a young Mike Shaft was listening to Andy Peebles’ soul show. <\/p>\n
“All I wanted to do was the soul show,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I said to my missus ‘I’ll never work at Piccadilly whilst Andy’s there because his soul show was just excellent'”.<\/p>\n
Shaft, who eventually took the reins of the ‘Taking Care of Business’ soul show until 1986, remembered the day he realised a window may be open.<\/p>\n
“I opened up the Daily Mail, it read ‘Andy Peebles Goes To Radio 1’ – I was down there within 30 minutes!”<\/p>\n
The aspiring presenter soon received a letter, inviting him in for a chat. <\/p>\n
“Me and my missus were both jumping around in our flat, it was great times,” he remembered.<\/p>\n
After Piccadilly, Shaft worked at BBC Radio Manchester for 20 years, presenting his final Sunday Breakfast show in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While his future colleagues were helping to build the remaining studios, across the city a young Mike Shaft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-289191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}