Bill Heine

William Randolph Heine (9 January 1945 – 2 April 2019) was an American-born British radio broadcaster and writer based in Oxford, England.

He was not afraid to speak his mind and allowed his listeners to do the same during his former afternoon phone-in show.

[2] Born in Batavia, Illinois, Heine lived in Oxford since studying for a postgraduate degree at Balliol College in the late 1960s.

Together Heine and Buckley, again, in 1986 came up with the 25-foot (7.6 m) fibreglass sculpture of a shark that appears to be crashing through the roof of the house he lived within, in the Headington area of Oxford, creating a somewhat controversial local landmark.

[5] In November 2017, Heine revealed that he had been diagnosed with terminal acute myeloid leukaemia.