With a break for military service, he remained at the ABC organ until the cinema was converted into a bingo hall in 1976.
[2] His hospital request radio programme As Prescribed started in June 1948 as a weekly broadcast from ABC's Royal Cinema in Plymouth.
[5] Savage not only presented the hour-long show, but played requests on the organ from listeners who were sick in hospital or housebound.
[2][6] After a brief hiatus, the BBC reinstated it as a monthly show in 1969, continuing As Prescribed for another decade, and later moving the programme to Radio 2.
[7] He went on concert tours throughout the UK and Europe, displaying for his audiences what author and organist Jonathan Mann described as "an incredibly distinctive style with a particular gift for harmony.