DEVA RADIO 1994 PHOTO ALBUM


Alison Mann presented many of our news bulletins, as well as charming many of our male presenters! Her coolness and professionality got her many top interviews of stage, screen and soap box, and she even managed to overcome the station's dodgy UHER tape recorder.



Alan Bower had a unique talent to insult everyone he could think of whilst on air, and they'd still be nic to him afterwards. However, divine intervention paid off, because two days before the end of Deva '94 his car overheated whilst getting the boss some food from McDonalds!





Chris Stevens was in charge of Deva Radio in 1994and as a result he hardly ever slept as he would try to monitor every programme. Luckily for us he has now learnt the art of delegation. Chris also presented the two roadshows, and passers-by would see him running around the riverside talking to himself.



Dave Maguire is Chester's Town Crier, and certainly has a voice for radio! He presented our drivetime show and would promote Deva Radio in the centre of Chester in his own unique way.





Frankie Anderson didn't intend to get involved with Deva, but he was dragged down to the roadshows by Matthew Smith and the rest, as they say, is history. Frankie did try to write an Amiga programme to play our adverts, but the software couldn't cope with it.



Geraint Carter is our classical music expert and scowls upon the "degrading" music we play for the rest of the day. His daily show "Carter's Classical Hour" meant he had to get up at 4.45 each morning, and he would always arrive on his mother's bike, seconds before the start of his show. However he would then stay all day to contribute to the news bulletins, before dissapearing again on that famous bicycle!



Jane Kerrich's skill for organisation stopped Deva Radio from disappearing underneath a mound of papers, script, and other scraps of paper lying around the office. She was also known for cooking a very appetising Bacon and Egg, although nobody plucked up the courage to eat it.



Lee Davies was Deva's expert sports reporter, who would happily write sports bulletins that would last longer than they programme they were part of. He joined us half way through our licence after a gruelling holiday in the USA. Lee is now doing a Media Studies degree in Sunderland, but will be joining us again in the summer, to bore us rigid with innane facts about the Grand Prix.



Liz Adams was the youngest member of the Deva team at 15 years old, but this didn't stop her taking part in many of our activities. As well as a regular newsreader, she acted in our soap opera "Eden Vale" and helped at the roadshows. According to the Station Organiser at the time, Liz has "real talent". We assume he was reffering to her broadcasting skills!



Mark Thompson never intended to go on the air, but when one of our night-time presenters went on holiday Mark was literally thrust in front of the mic, and ended up becoming a regular presenter. He also managed to crash his mother's car at the end of Deva when returning some records to Geraint's house. Still, we all have to make sacrifices.



Neil Sproston was the bearded wonder who was in charge of the technical side of the station. We would dread something going wrong because although we knew Neil could fix it; we could never get hold of him. Neil's speciality is conning fast food resteraunts out of food, but I won't tell you any more for fear of incriminating him.



Robert Proctor (or Flash to his friends) had a fascination with the chickens that wandered around outside our studios. His metro could often be seen in different villages around Chester, converting people to their new community radio station. He also helped us to erect the transmitter and presented two weekly shows.



Ron Jones is famed in Chester as a Country Music specialist, and he presented our Sunday afternoon show "Deva Country". He also stood in for Dave Maguire when Dave had to go to a Town Crier's conference in Liverpool. Ron has since set up his own RSL station; Wrexham FM.



Matthew Smith had great pleasure in presenting "The Late Matthew Smith Show" and would insist on playing Belinda Carlisle's 'Heaven Is A Place On Earth' once a night. Needless to say, that song is banned this year. At the launch roadshow Matthew had to spend two hours holding our link transmitter up, as we were unable to bind the pole to the bandstand. What a hero!



Eddy Langley was head of the news department, and set up a computer system so complicated that not even he could understand it. Apart from trying to chat up certain other members of the news team, Eddy ensured that all our output was of pristine quality and were morally correct. It's a shame his private intentions weren't quite so honourable!



Wim Roose was our head of Production, and had to spent many boring hours removing leader tape from our jingle cassettes. He also recorded all our adverts, and foolishly agreed to record the soap opra. Little did he know that this would take up ALL of his spare time! Wim's claim to fame is that in a moment of blind panic he managed to replay an interview backwards at the wrong speed, whilst forgetting to broadcast the interviewee's answers !