Alan Dedicoat

After working in the West Country, he moved to London to join the Presentation Department of BBC Radio 2 in 1986 at Broadcasting House[2] and later became its head, a position he retained until his retirement in 2015.

Dedicoat acquired the nickname "Voice of the Balls" from presenter Sir Terry Wogan.

[2] As part of this job, he read the news on BBC Radio 2's weekday breakfast programme, Wake Up to Wogan, until it ended in December 2009.

[1] In 2015, a recording of Dedicoat was obtained by The Sun newspaper, in which he allegedly claimed that the BBC allowed a "drug peddler" to deliver Class A substances to the desks of staff.

[4] Dedicoat is the co-owner of multiple examples of the AEC Routemaster (the best-known London red bus) with fellow broadcasters Charles Nove, Ken Bruce and Steve Madden.