Peter Deeley
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Peter Deeley is a prominent British journalist and until January 2006, was a full time talk radio presenter on the London phone-in radio station LBC 97.3. Peter Deeley has lately become known as 'Fish' because of his love for Fish & Chips. Listeners and the production team on the "through-the-night" show came up with the nickname. He also owns a house on a Greek island.
[edit] Career
Peter’s considerable journalistic experience has enabled him to spar with a multitude of world political figures including US Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, former British Prime Ministers Baroness Thatcher and Sir John Major, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and Tony Blair. His career began in the late sixties when he reported on the Solihull News in the West Midlands. It wasn’t long before he moved to the Birmingham Evening Mail where he rose to Deputy Chief Features Sub-Editor.
In the late seventies, radio beckoned and Peter took on the post of Deputy News Editor and presenter at Beacon Radio in Wolverhampton. From there he moved to join the IRN reporting team, where he remained until the early eighties. He then moved to LBC in London, presenting such programmes as LBC Reports and Weekend Breakfast. From 1985-1990 he was the breakfast anchorman at LBC alongside Douglas Cameron – a programme which attracted big listening figures in the metropolitan area. Peter has also worked as a drivetime presenter on LBC, Talk Radio and BBC Radio Kent, and was a senior producer at BBC Radio 5 Live.
[edit] LBC Radio Show
During his full time contract, Peter presented a four hour show from 1am to 5am on Monday mornings and a five hour show from 12am to 5am on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Peter's topics varied throughout his show as he did not have a set agenda. A mix of lively and topical debate and talk with real-life experiences, conversations and off the wall stories, as well as the intimate insight of listeners themselves. One of his more bizarre views is that man never landed on the moon. (See Apollo moon landing hoax accusations).
In December 2005, Deeley announced his departure from his LBC show live on air, saying he is leaving broadcasting altogether to become an "addiction psychotherapist" - being a recovering alcoholic himself. However he decided that addiction psychotherapy was not for him. As of April 2006, Peter had been filling in for Marcus Churchill for a few weeks, due to Churchill's illness. Deeley broadcast his last show on Monday, 2nd January 2006. However, he returned at the end of February 2006 to host shows as cover for absent night presenters. He returned to air on Tuesday, 12th December 2006, for two nights.
Since his departure from LBC, Deeley had been staying in his house in Greece, and as he puts it, "doing other things".
