Tiger Tim Stevens

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"Tiger" Tim Stevens is a veteran disc jockey, working in the West of Scotland since 1973 on the radio, primarily Radio Clyde.^[1] His current radio show is with Clyde 2, having moved there from Clyde 1 at the start of 2008.^[2]

Stevens was born in in 1957 and was brought up in Easterhouse, a housing scheme in Glasgow. At the age of 17 he started disc jockeying at The Electric Gardens nightclub in Sauchiehall Street. He was recruited to Radio Clyde in 1974 and has remained a regular broadcaster there, with a temporary stint at West Sound in the 1980s. His first show on Radio Clyde - broadcast on Monday evenings between 8 p. m. and 10 p. m. in the mid-1970s - was entitled The Aff Its Heid Show (Aff Its Heid = Off Its Head in Standard English).

In 1987 Stevens was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, but continued to work in radio despite the steady progression of the disease ^[1].

In 2006 Stevens was awarded the Member of the British Empire (MBE) for his charity work and services to broadcasting in Scotland.^[3]^[4] He was also awarded Reo Stakis Lifetime Achievement award at the Tartan Cleft Awards in 2006^[5]^[6]

Stevens presented The Untied Showlaces Show, a BBC Scotland morning children's TV programme in 1982.^[7]^[8]

Stevens has a fashion modelling contract with Ben Sherman.^[9]

[edit] Further Reading

Tim Stevens and Brian Beacom, The Adventures of Tiger Tim: The Authorised Biography of Tim Stevens (Black and White Publishing), 2000) ISBN-10: 1902927133 , ISBN-13: 978-1902927138