For 23 years, from 1985 to 2008, he was host of the national classical music program DiscDrive, which aired across Canada on CBC Radio 2.
[1] Gothe was born in Berlin, Germany, where he was a child actor for Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor[2] before his family moved to Canada in 1954.
[4] He dropped out of high school after Grade 10, and joined local radio station CHAT at age 15 as an advertising copywriter,[5] later moving to an on-air role as host of a jazz show[3] and writing for sister CBC television affiliate station CHAT-TV.
[3] Moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in the mid-1960s,[6] he worked for an advertising agency and for CHQM-FM[6] before rejoining the CBC, this time in radio.
They lived on Mayne Island until his deteriorating health forced him to enter a special care facility in Vancouver.