Tiggy Walker
@TiggyWalker
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Writer, Producer, Director & occasional Radio Presenter. Patron of Carers UK. Book: ‘Both Sides Now’ published 11 September by Harper Collins.
Joined February 2009
What does a new widow do on NYE? She listens to @BBCRadio2, opens a bottle and toasts her amazing husband. Courageous, wise, strong, creative and never dull. They didn’t call him the Pirate for nothing. Above all - the most devoted loving husband. Pls raise a 🥂to Johnnie Walker
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From one friend to another. Very sad to announce that @piratejw will be putting down his headphones on Sunday 27th October. But happy he’s handing SOT70’s to @WhisperingBob. Another real radio man. We’ll miss the @BBCRadio2 family and listeners #endofanera
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We couldn’t have bettered a thing about @piratejw ‘s send off yesterday. Beautiful music, fab readings & SO much laughter. He left with Born To Run blasting! I’m sure he loved it. 🙏 @GrumpyOldRick #Palidachoir #paulvenables #janetreays @HolmesAndFamily
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I’ve a bit of news about Johnnie @piratejw. It seems his heart needs a bit of an upgrade. The bad news is he’ll be off The Rock Show & SOT70’s for 6 weeks ☹️. The good news - he’ll be even better when he returns with all that extra oxygen pumping round his body! 😁😁@BBCRadio2
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My tribute to @piratejw and his final show on @BBCRadio2 in my latest monthly column for @DorsetMag. Thanks to all of you who sent him/us such wonderful cards and letters. I’m so relieved he had this time to read them all and soak up the love ❤️❤️🙏🙏
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For his final Rock Show on @BBCRadio2 Johnnie @piratejw thought he’d dress for the occasion… Tonight at 11pm with his favourite rock tracks. 🎸🎸❤️🥂 @lizziebarn (the Queen of Rock)
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It’s a bright & early start for @piratejw tomorrow. He’ll be standing in for Tony Blackburn on SOT60’s from 6-8am on @BBCRadio2. I bet he’ll love flexing his 60’s music muscles again. And I’m sure he’ll be open to your suggestions too 😃
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So sorry that @tonyblackburn (AKA the hardest working DJ in UK!) isn’t 100% yet. It means you’ve got this one again tomorrow morning to play all those great 60’s tunes from 6-8am. #SOTS @piratejw @tomducroz @BBCRadio2 .Get better soon Tony x
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Here he is! @piratejw is back at @BBCRadio2 ready to rock! 8pm tonight. Then SOT70’s tomorrow. 😁😁👍🕺#R2rockshow
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Earlier on today at @BBCRadio2 - two of the most popular DJ’s on @BBCSounds. Fact! @piratejw and @tonyblackburn #radiolegends
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My Johnnie @piratejw may have passed 3 months ago - but he still manages to be Pick of The Day/Week - which is a fantastic achievement! And on his 80th Birthday too. Thank you @RadioTimes @thetimes and @tvtimesmagazine. And to @Dr_Paul_Thomas, @lizziebarn and @BBCRadio2 ❤️
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My very first solo national radio show. So grateful to Boom. There couldn’t be a better way to say happy birthday to my Pirate. I hope he’ll have a good signal up there! ❤️.
To mark what would have been Johnnie Walker's 80th birthday next Sunday, Tiggy Walker joins us with a fitting celebration of her husband - the radio great. 8-10pm
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When I helped @piratejw on his show in March I'd no idea it'd last 5 months. This is us at the end of today's show. There were tears then & there's been more since thx to all of your beautiful msgs & emails. I've been massively rewarded by you all🙏❤️ I'll miss it and you so much
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What about this?! 😀 Three decades together in one studio! A rare event indeed…@djgarydavies @piratejw @tonyblackburn #SOT60s #SOT70s #SOT80s @BBCRadio2
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@piratejw Johnnie Walker will be celebrated on @BBCRadio2 this Sunday 30th March (5-7pm) with a FABULOUS tribute show produced by @lizziebarn & @Dr_Paul_Thomas (in pic) - who has lovingly crafted a star studded celebration of our much missed Pirate
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@piratejw is doing 3 shows this w/e. Tonight the Rock Show at 11pm, some hours later he’ll be covering for Tony on SOT60’s & on Sunday he’ll be going forward a decade to the 70’s (with guest Penelope Wilton). Then he’ll have a lie down @BBCRadio2
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Our darling Darcey was found today - drowned. After 5 days of searching (by so many) & much fretting we are relieved to have her back and buried in our garden. Below is the last photo of us together 🙏 to @melaldridge8. She was loved by many & will never be forgotten. @piratejw
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It’s @BBCR1’s 55th birthday so a lunch to celebrate with just a few names - @tonyblackburn @piratejw Gambo, Kid Jensen, Peter Powell, @MikeReadUK @ChrisMoyles @patsharp @PaulMcKenna4 @djgarydavies Andy Peebles & many others. And all on the same day as Steve Wright’s last big show
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How the @BBCRadio2 family will miss its “father’ @RealKenBruce. His sad departure will leave @piratejw as one of the longest standing members of the clan. Perhaps he can become ‘Grandfather’ of the station!.
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Last year Christine McVie released this album of solo songs. She asked @piratejw to interview her in advance. He had no idea the full interview would be transcribed & put in the album notes. Such a treasured honour for him. She was such a gentle and lovely artist.
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I’m being offered so much help. So here’s a request. Can someone who knows Wikipedia go in and change my name. Jarvis is my middle name and I’m sick of it being used as a surname. I was born Tiggy Coldicott. Latterly Tiggy Gatfield when we married. Thank you SO much. 😙🙏👍🙏.
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A year ago tonight we lost Darcey, our darling working cocker. She touched hearts wherever she went. Most of all ours. I still cry for her. She was love. She was personality. And my lesson from her 14 1/2 years - what goodness an animal can teach us humans. ❤️❤️❤️
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That may have been @piratejw final #SOT70s till Feb but you can hear us TOGETHER (!) on @BoomRadioUK on Tues 27th December 4-6pm. Yes - Tiggy Stardust is being allowed BACK behind the mic. So excited. I hope you’ll join us. We’ve been choosing some great tracks 😀
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A heavy day. My dear brother Simon died aged 62. Cancer not CV. It’s heartbreaking to lose a sibling. He was one of our top goldsmiths & won the prestigious Cartier Award. He made for the Queen downwards. My #smallpleasure is that he was at home with his wife holding her hand ❤️
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So it’s true. @piratejw will be returning to Wogan Towers and @BBCRadio2 next weekend. Huge love and thanks to @freshnet for looking after SOT70’s so fantastically. 🙏❤️.
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Every cloud has a silver lining and he’s very glad that he’s been able to bring greater awareness of this awful disease. @piratejw.
🎙️We've heard the news that @piratejw will be stepping down from presenting his radio shows. He's living with PF and is a fantastic advocate for APF. We'd like to say thank you to Johnnie for all his help with our #PFMonth24 campaign.💜 . @TiggyWalker.
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🙏🙏 for the beautiful ❤️❤️messages we’ve received for this. All thx & praise to our producer @johndaly27 whose q’s & editing were amazing. We just talked! There’s 3 more days left to hear it. @piratejw @BBCSounds @CarersUK
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I’ll be talking to @hugorifkind on @TimesRadio today at around 12.40. It’ll be the first time I’ve spoken about @piratejw since he passed. Hoping it will give me some practice for doing his eulogy….
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Today’s small pleasure was celebrating The Pirate’s 75th with the dog, a worthy cake, an organic chicken, a bottle of Beaune and some gorgeous ❤️❤️ friends singing Happy Birthday from the garden gate. All you need to feel special is love. It’s a fact! @piratejw #smallpleasures
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Just fyi @piratejw will be interviewed soon on @BBCr4today at around 8.45am. Johnnie on Radio 4… I hope he behaves! 🎸🎤💫.
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Oh. I was filmed! 😳. Thank heavens I’d washed my hair! 🙏 @hugorifkind.
“When most of the DJs jumped ship Johnnie stayed on board, of course, because he was a rebel!”. @TiggyWalker remembers the life of her “soulmate”, the late DJ Johnnie Walker. @HugoRifkind | #TimesRadio
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Happy Birthday @piratejw ! New year. New haircut. Starting off with breakfast at The Greenberry Cafe in Primrose Hill. Where will it end? … 🥂🎂🍰🍷
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It's me again! Today I’m pleased to announce my book Both Sides Now about my life with Johnnie. I hope people will learn more about this talented yet humble man. It publishes on 11th September and you can pre-order your copy here: @HarperCollinsUK
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Our dear friend Gordon Haskell has left us. Bless you Gordy for the music, for collecting me from Heathrow dressed as a cow, for playing at our wedding,, for your sense of humour & above all for introducing me to @piratejw. You changed the course of my life forever. ❤️🙏
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At last - a truly great act - and the only one where I know every single lyric! Way to go ELTON JOHN. You are the defining ⭐️ of our times. #glastonbury2023.
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Happy to say we’ll be back on @BoomRadioUK on 28th December 4-6pm. Got a great Christmas story? Want a mention? Get in touch here… @piratejw
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What day is it? Ah yes - the 28th. Which means that we’re back on BOOM @BoomRadioUK this afternoon from 4-6pm. Hope you can join us then to hear some great music and a bit of Mr & Mrs banter. 😀 @piratejw
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The concluding chapter of Jakemansgate! All is forgiven. Peace resumes. @mrmichaelball @piratejw
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How I loved the haircuts in the 70’s. I’m a 15 yr old here. Little did I know then that one day I’d be marrying that Johnnie Walker who did the chart show on Radio 1. Or that I’d get to interview him about his 70’s. Join us this Sunday from 3-5pm @piratejw @BBCRadio2 #SOT70s
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Amazing news. My short film 'The Kitchen Garden' was just selected by New York Film and Cinematography Awards via I won Best New Director for Shorts and Features. So thrilled. Think @piratejw is pulling some strings up there!
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🙏 to Fergus Kelly @SundayExpres for a lovely article today. What a lovely thing to have written to mark my final #SOT70’s show day. Please join us at 3pm today. @piratejw @BBCRadio2
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Water, coffee, banana… @piratejw is prepped and ready to go at 3pm. Interviews with John Otway and song writer Roger Greenaway, and of course, a fantastic selection of 70’s music. #SOT70s @BBCRadio2 @lizziebarn @Dr_Paul_Thomas
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His break is over (& lovely it was too). @piratejw interviewing Tony King this morning for #SOT70s. Tony is legendary PR to the stars including @eltonofficial and @RollingStones . JW says it was one of his best ever interviews. Now that’s saying something @BBCRadio2 @lizziebarn
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Nice @shaunwkeaveny . Great to start to the Rock Show with Iggy. Yes JW would have loved that choice. Thanks for the words. @BBCRadio2.
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When Johnnie met Sally - again - and took a liking to her trouser stripes. @piratejw @BBCRadio2
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🥁🥁🥁 On 3 March @piratejw & I will launch our podcast Johnnie & Tiggy Walker Consciously Coupling talking to couples about their lives & music. We've some fabulous guests lined up. 🙏 The Velvetiser from @hotelchocolat for sponsoring & @johndaly27 for producing. We can't wait!
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It’s a 70’s Glastonbury on SOT70’s today 3-5pm @BBCRadio2 @piratejw @leethommo. Get your wellie boots and 🕶 on.
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Well what a lovely Christmas present from @BBCRadio2 - I just heard a trail for @piratejw My 70’s on Sunday. Got to admit - a bit of a thrill to hear me saying ‘Tiggy here’. Me! Would never have thought that would happen a year ago! 😁😀.
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What a fabulous way to re-enter life again. Lunch @The_Pig_Hotel. Asparagus and purple sprouting from their garden, freshly caught brill, crisp Chablis, delightful service, a view across Studland Bay - and sun. What could be more perfect. @piratejw @RobinHutson #PigonTheBeach
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Great start to the evening. @WhisperingBob and @piratejw in front of Robert Plant and Alison Kraus (singing like an angel) on a stunning summer’s evening at Hyde Park.
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My small pleasure today is realising this is the 40th night in isolation with the Pirate and I love him even more than ever. I feel so lucky to be tied down with my soul mate. And such a fun one! #smallpleasures.
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It’s the first day of summer, the sun has shone & the Pirate is allowed out. So this pm we took Bianca our trusty Fiat Spyder out of her stall for a quick canter to Weymouth Harbour for fish & chips. The Dorset countryside never looked better as we trotted back. #smallpleasures
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Front row seat! @piratejw is still vibrating from the Rolling Stones last night. He’s about to spread a bit of those vibes your way! @BBCRadio2 @Dr_Paul_Thomas #SOT70s
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I cannot believe the incredible love and support I’ve received from friends and all of you today. I cannot believe the people who have told me they’ve also lost brothers. And I cannot believe how strong my mother is being, or Kate, Simon’s wife. Deep & big #smallpleasures 🙏🙏❤️.
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Today’s small pleasure is the amazing reception I continue to get from you lovely loyal SOT70’s listeners in the lock down version of the show. You couldn’t have made me feel more welcome to your Sunday afternoon club. Bless you all. @leethommo @piratejw 🙏🙏❤️#smallpleasures.
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If you can’t have an espresso martini on your birthday when can you? 🍸☕️ @piratejw #kingsarmsdorchester
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Want to know a bit more about my Pirate @piratejw? Well you can listen to a fabulous 2 hour tribute show to him masterfully made by @Dr_Paul_Thomas .on @BBCSounds .
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Very proud of @piratejw and @leethommo for today’s Bowie tribute. Fantastic show and selection of songs. What an extraordinary decade for Bowie.👏👏👏 Tiggy Stardust is very happy! #SOT70s @BBCRadio2.
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My old Pirate @piratejw is far too humble to say this but his @BBCRadio2 Rock Show has picked up thousands of new listeners. Yay! Huge 👏👏👏 to him and that Queen of Rock @lizziebarn. Listen in tonight at 11pm and let’s 🎸🎸🎸together.
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If like me you found @piratejw - Johnnie Walker’s final sign off on @BBCRadio2 last October the best radio moment of the last year, you can vote for him to win (posthumously) the Radio Times award at the ARIAS. Here’s the link: 🙏❤️👍.
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A memory of 14th August 2007. @piratejw, Keith Skues, Stewpot. On a boat near Harwich. Something to go with today’s show. @BoomRadioUK
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@piratejw & I met 20 yrs ago tonight. What a time to meet, what a time ever since. Another 20 maybe a tad ambitious but here’s to as many more years as possible. ❤️❤️❤️
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Thanks to the gorgeous bubbly Rev Kate Botley for inviting me to chat about @piratejw and grief on her Good Friday show. If you don’t have time for the whole programme I’m about 90 mins in. @BBCRadio2
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As life ramps up again I’m already looking back at lockdown with gratitude. Whether it was bird song, jigsaws or baking - the time to appreciate these & so many things was needed by me. After 70+ #smallpleasures I feel it’s time to stop my campaign. So a big 🙏 for all your ❤️ x.
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Excited to be outside @BBCRadio2 with CEO of @CarersUK @Helen_M_Walker to talk to @theJeremyVine about caring and #CarersWeek. On just after 1pm.
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Thank you Carlos. It was as an incredible day. He would have loved it! @DorsetMag.
This month’s copy of @DorsetMag has arrived. Huge thanks to Johnnie’s wife @TiggyWalker for sharing such a personal account of Johnnie’s funeral. How wonderful that Tiggy describes it as a day of joy - celebrating JW’s extraordinary life.
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Feeling a tinge of survival instinct in Lockdown 1, I planted a load of potatoes. Then forgot about them. Until today. How very gratifying to uncover these beauties with @piratejw. There’ll be a lot of mashing, baking, roasting & chipping ahead. 🥔 🥔🥔#smallpleasures
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Touching moment tonight when Don Henley said ‘if we don’t come this way again then thank you’. It just feels like a lot of artists and bands are saying their gentle goodbyes. Lovely evening with @piratejw #TheEagles #HotelCalifornia #HydePark
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I’ll be talking to Fi Glover on @TimesRadio today just after 3.30pm about caring for Johnnie - my Pirate @piratejw. Hoping what I say will resonate with other unpaid carers. @CarersUK.
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Not only listening to @piratejw on #SOT70s but after I can get yet more of him doing The Tracks Of My Years with the dashing @vernonkay. Then I can cook his supper and get my own private audience with him. Hope I don’t get bored 😉 As if… @BBCRadio2
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And when you’ve heard the tribute to Johnnie you can indulge further with ‘Clash of The Pirates’. A hilarious battle between @piratejw and @tonyblackburn .Thank you @BBCRadio2 for these Easter treats 😀🐣.
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Today’s small pleasure was finishing jigsaw no. 2. Who knew there were so many shades of green. Nightmare! My greater pleasure was all your lovely comments about me helping @piratejw with SOT70’s. Truly it is a pleasure to work with him and hear from you all. #smallpleasures
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Oh my word - literally. I am now a ‘columnist’ 😁😁😁! My first “Life’s For Living” is in July’s @DorsetMag. I get a whole page. This month I write about doing the SOT70’s show with the Pirate. 🙏 @BellaWest for taking photo through the door.
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Well look at that - @piratejw and @tonyblackburn are being true pirates again. On another radio station! Listen in to @absoluteradio this Friday for what promises to be a brilliant show featuring them and many other pirates… @jonholmes1 @lorlyjane
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I find final radio shows incredibly emotional. They’re like a relationship ending. So feeling quite tearful about and for Jenny Murray who has just finished her final @BBCWomansHour. 🙏👏🙏👏 for so many years Jenny. What a broadcaster. @BBCRadio4.
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Fans of @piratejw. This weekend I’m selling his best clothes on Vinted. Look for Wigtogs. That’s me. Things are getting snapped up. But I want you to know as you might like a little piece of the great man. Breaks my heart. But needs must and all that. 🙏. Ps. He had great taste!.
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It’s off to bed for @piratejw. He’ll see you bright and early tomorrow morning to do #SOT60s . Get better soon Tony. @BBCRadio2.
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Two Johnnie’s getting ready for #SOT70s at 3pm. Johnnie’s guest in hour 2 is Pete Townsend from The Who 🤩 so you know there’ll be some amazing tracks. Aren’t there always. @piratejw @jkalifornia @BBCRadio2
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WHAT a gig. Mick Fleetwood, Pete Townsend, David Gilmore, Steve Tyler, Billy Gibbons, Neil Finn, Bill Wyman, Noel Gallagher, Kirk Hammett, John Mayall, Jonny Lang, Christine McVie, Andy Fairweather Low, Rick Vito, Zak Starky. I mean. Insane! In honour of Peter Green. 🙏 @piratejw
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@piratejw sporting his latest favourite shirt this week… Anyway, utterly unrelated - he’s about to strut his #SOT70s stuff on @BBCRadio2. He tells me he’s got an amazing one of a kind and an interview with one of the finest ever music producers Glyn Johns. I’m tuning in now…
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I may spend 24/7 with him but I never miss it. Even I’m excited to hear what he’ll play! #SOT70s @piratejw @leethommo @BBCRadio2.
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Never thought the Pirate would be wearing the same as Lord Grantham - at the same event. 😳 @indigoisland99 @piratejw @hughbon @Thepighotel #smokedanduncut
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So we’re all having good and bad days. I was sobbing as I made this soda bread today. And frankly - it shows. But it had a good side too. Which reminded me that every situation does. Somehow. Maybe tenuous - but that reminder is my small pleasure for today. #smallpleasures
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One of those rare magical evenings. We’ve been to the sea, had a dip, driven home open topped, and now hanging in our lovely garden sipping wine, eating tapas and listening to Bruce while the day draws to a close. Just the two of us. And the dog. #BankHolidayMonday #westernstars
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WHAT an amazing meal we had today at Osip Restaurant in Bruton. In the words of @piratejw ‘it was faultless’. If you’re a foodie you have to book yourself a table there. #MICHELINSTAR #bruton
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My Pirate may be in hospital but the show must go on. Mine that is. Today 2-4pm @Abbey_104 . I shall be playing him plenty of his fave tunes as as I know he’ll be listening from his bed. Plus all the usual features. #AfternoonDelight
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I’m abandoning @piratejw for the week to do yoga 🧘♀️ on @TrescoIsland. (Don’t worry - the fridge is full of meals for 1). I’ll enjoy #SOT70s even more today on my journey & will re-listen to past shows as I walk round the island. So he’s never far from me 😍@BBCRadio2 @BBCSounds.
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Tomorrow on @BoomRadioUK you can hear @piratejw do a two hour show celebrating the 14th August - 55 years ago. How time flies. Should be a great listen for all Caroline and #PirateRadio fans.
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@MarkSeddon1962 Mark THANK YOU!!! Yes wonderful accolades and now @theJeremyVine is doing a wonderful tribute. It’s all been extraordinary 🙏.
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It’s @piratejw ‘s last show until February. I’m stealing him away for a rest. @BBCRadio2 Rock Show tonight at 11pm. Rock on and Happy New Year! @lizziebarn.
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@piratejw with Paul McKenna on Friday. Look in to his eyes, look in to his eyes… #SOT70s 3-5pm today @BBCRadio2 @lizziebarn
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Just finished #afterlife. We laughed (out loud). We cried (quietly). We were moved (incredibly). Huge respect to @rickygervais. What a great piece of writing, directing, dog wrangling, observation and AWESOME casting. What an ensemble. 👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏 to you all. @piratejw.
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