Keith Skues
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'Keith Skues 'MBE''''(born March 4th 1939 in Timperley, Cheshire) is a British radio broadcaster. He is nicknamed Cardboard Shoes. His Broadcasting Career began on BFBS in 1962, this was then followed by Radio Caroline in 1964, Radio Luxembourg in 1965 & then Radio London in 1966.
He was then one of the original presenters on the newly launched BBC Radio 1 in 1967 and was heard on the very first day, presenting Saturday Club.
In 1969, he took over the weekday afternoon show before taking over the What's New which went out every weekday from 4.15-5.15pm every weekday. Other Radio shows included Album Time, Radio 1 Club & Night Ride, which was also broadcast similtaneously on BBC Radio 2.
Skues left Radio 1 in 1974 and was appointed director of Radio Hallam (now Hallam FM) and by 1980 was the longest serving programme director in music radio.
By 1987 Hallam merged with two other Yorkshire stations & he was made Group Programme Consultant. In 1989, the various Classic Gold stations began broadcasting & Keith became programme controller as well as broadcasting 6 days a week.
In 1991 he briefly took over the afternoon show on BBC Radio Sheffield and then a brief spell on the late afternoon show on BBC Radio 2.
In January, 1992 he went to Saudi Arabia as Public Relations Officer for the RAF Detachment in Dhahran for two months. He was a member of the public relations team at RAF Marham for the 75th anniversary of the Royal Air Force which was attended by five members of the Royal Family on 1 April 1993.
His programmes were broadcast Monday - Friday nights from 10pm-1am on BBC Radio Norfolk, BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Essex, BBC Radio Northampton, BBC Three Counties Radio (Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire) and BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
In May 2005 he took semi-retirement, but can still be heard on the above BBC Local Radio stations on Sundays 9.00pm-1.00am and on Mondays 10.00pm-1.00am. BBC Radio Lincolnshire also pick up his show on Sundays.
