Anybody remember the late great Gary Jacobs who did a legal phone in show and there was a gadget expert who use to be on Saturday mornings Bob ......( Is surname sounded Eastern European)Who also passed away.
Mike Dickin's death
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Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Very nearly posted on the actual Talksport thread about 3 days ago after giving it a quick peruse Billy.
I never really had Mike Dicken down as a conspiracy theorist. Maybe I've simply forgotten.
What I do recall is that if you listened to him on DAB and wearing a decent set of headphones, as I always did even to speech radio, you could clearly hear him wheezing in the background at times even when other people were talking. You could hear the swivel chair squeak too.
But this style of radio is certainly missed nationally. He was on air at Talksport at the exact time news of Diana came through and announced it on air.”
“Very nearly posted on the actual Talksport thread about 3 days ago after giving it a quick peruse Billy.
I never really had Mike Dicken down as a conspiracy theorist. Maybe I've simply forgotten.
What I do recall is that if you listened to him on DAB and wearing a decent set of headphones, as I always did even to speech radio, you could clearly hear him wheezing in the background at times even when other people were talking. You could hear the swivel chair squeak too.
But this style of radio is certainly missed nationally. He was on air at Talksport at the exact time news of Diana came through and announced it on air.”
Here's a quote from a 2004 forum following a doc called The Truth about the Moon Landings which exploded the myth.
'I haven't watched it yet (recorded it). I've just heard Mike Dicken on Talk Sport saying that last night's program confirmed what he believes that there never were any moon landings
Originally Posted by Harry_Stevens:
“Anybody remember the late great Gary Jacobs who did a legal phone in show and there was a gadget expert who use to be on Saturday mornings Bob ......( Is surname sounded Eastern European)Who also passed away.”
“Anybody remember the late great Gary Jacobs who did a legal phone in show and there was a gadget expert who use to be on Saturday mornings Bob ......( Is surname sounded Eastern European)Who also passed away.”
The Gadget Detective is Fevzi Turkalp, who appeared with Mike Mendoza very late Friday nights, or very early Saturday mornings after 2am. He is very much alive. He has directly posted to me on the Talksport thread a few months ago to inform that he was now over on BBC Radio 5 Live on their Up All Night programme, once a fortnight, in the early hours of Friday after 2.30am, talking about all the tech issues just as good as he did on Talksport.
Jacobs I do recall and he seemed like a very unlikeable oaf to me. That goes back to Talk Radio UK days.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Very nearly posted on the actual Talksport thread about 3 days ago after giving it a quick peruse Billy.
I never really had Mike Dicken down as a conspiracy theorist. Maybe I've simply forgotten.
What I do recall is that if you listened to him on DAB and wearing a decent set of headphones, as I always did even to speech radio, you could clearly hear him wheezing in the background at times even when other people were talking. You could hear the swivel chair squeak too.
But this style of radio is certainly missed nationally. He was on air at Talksport at the exact time news of Diana came through and announced it on air.”
“Very nearly posted on the actual Talksport thread about 3 days ago after giving it a quick peruse Billy.
I never really had Mike Dicken down as a conspiracy theorist. Maybe I've simply forgotten.
What I do recall is that if you listened to him on DAB and wearing a decent set of headphones, as I always did even to speech radio, you could clearly hear him wheezing in the background at times even when other people were talking. You could hear the swivel chair squeak too.
But this style of radio is certainly missed nationally. He was on air at Talksport at the exact time news of Diana came through and announced it on air.”
That's right I woke up on the Sunday morning, put the radio on talkSPORT and it was indeed Mike Dicken who informed me Diana was dead, it was sort of one of those moments that you never forget what you were doing like they usually are. I can't lie I did used to curse Mike at times but at other times I would often listen because he was so different to all the rest of the sheep at that station and I did love it when he was told callers not to ask about his health because his health was not in question.
Was never aware his fatal crash was the result of him suffering a heart attack at the wheel, I thought he'd just been involved in a pile-up on Bodmin Moor in busy traffic, I will try to check this out and get back on it.
I remember Mike saying on one of his shows a couple of years before his death that he thought he'd been followed from work one night. He spoke "to" them on air saying that he wasn't frightened of them.
He originally said, in 1997, that Diana wasn't murdered as it was "too messy" to have been an assassination. He'd changed his mind by 1995/6 due to the fact that he'd come to different conclusions based on his study of it.
They're the reasons that his death could sound suspicious, however, his health was evidently failing. Some say he was driving the car himself, others that he was a passenger.
He originally said, in 1997, that Diana wasn't murdered as it was "too messy" to have been an assassination. He'd changed his mind by 1995/6 due to the fact that he'd come to different conclusions based on his study of it.
They're the reasons that his death could sound suspicious, however, his health was evidently failing. Some say he was driving the car himself, others that he was a passenger.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“The Gadget Detective is Fevzi Turkalp, who appeared with Mike Mendoza very late Friday nights, or very early Saturday mornings after 2am. He is very much alive. He has directly posted to me on the Talksport thread a few months ago to inform that he was now over on BBC Radio 5 Live on their Up All Night programme, once a fortnight, in the early hours of Friday after 2.30am, talking about all the tech issues just as good as he did on Talksport.
Jacobs I do recall and he seemed like a very unlikeable oaf to me. That goes back to Talk Radio UK days.”
“The Gadget Detective is Fevzi Turkalp, who appeared with Mike Mendoza very late Friday nights, or very early Saturday mornings after 2am. He is very much alive. He has directly posted to me on the Talksport thread a few months ago to inform that he was now over on BBC Radio 5 Live on their Up All Night programme, once a fortnight, in the early hours of Friday after 2.30am, talking about all the tech issues just as good as he did on Talksport.
Jacobs I do recall and he seemed like a very unlikeable oaf to me. That goes back to Talk Radio UK days.”
The gadget person the original poster was referring to is the late Bob Tomalski, who appeared on Sean Bolger's programme.
Originally Posted by Harry_Stevens:
“Anybody remember the late great Gary Jacobs who did a legal phone in show and there was a gadget expert who use to be on Saturday mornings Bob ......( Is surname sounded Eastern European)Who also passed away.”
“Anybody remember the late great Gary Jacobs who did a legal phone in show and there was a gadget expert who use to be on Saturday mornings Bob ......( Is surname sounded Eastern European)Who also passed away.”
Gary started out as a regular, weekly guest on Caesar the Gezzer's late-night slot,and also had his own weekend slot in the early days. He came and went a few times during the Talk Radio/talkSPORT era. He was also a regular guest on James Whale's TV show, and had a legal column in the Daily Mirror.
Jacobs lost his Sunday night slot and had a back operation not long afterwards, from which he awoke completely deaf in one ear. This, I think, remained the case for the rest of his life, and was never properly explained. He returned to talkSPORT and did a few overnight shows after this, but sadly died not long afterwards.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“The Gadget Detective is Fevzi Turkalp, who appeared with Mike Mendoza very late Friday nights, or very early Saturday mornings after 2am. He is very much alive. He has directly posted to me on the Talksport thread a few months ago to inform that he was now over on BBC Radio 5 Live on their Up All Night programme, once a fortnight, in the early hours of Friday after 2.30am, talking about all the tech issues just as good as he did on Talksport.
Jacobs I do recall and he seemed like a very unlikeable oaf to me. That goes back to Talk Radio UK days.”
“The Gadget Detective is Fevzi Turkalp, who appeared with Mike Mendoza very late Friday nights, or very early Saturday mornings after 2am. He is very much alive. He has directly posted to me on the Talksport thread a few months ago to inform that he was now over on BBC Radio 5 Live on their Up All Night programme, once a fortnight, in the early hours of Friday after 2.30am, talking about all the tech issues just as good as he did on Talksport.
Jacobs I do recall and he seemed like a very unlikeable oaf to me. That goes back to Talk Radio UK days.”
No, this was before Fevzi who originally appeared on LBC during the night with Mike Mendoza in the early 90s before both moved to Talksport. The original Gadget Detective also on LBC was Bob Tomalski who died from a heart attack (I believe). Fevzi then replaced him.
Gary Jacobs was one of the good guys. He was a criminal lawyer who was a mate of Robbie Vincent and started doing an hourly legal spot on his daytime phone-in show on the much missed BBC Radio London (not to be confused with the awful BBC London). This was a completely novel thing in those days. We're talking 1970s - 80s here. Gary was dubbed as "the cycling solicitor" by Robbie, which I gather must have been an in-joke judging from Gary's huge aquat appearance. I didn't know what he looked like then. He had a very droll sense of humour which callers unfamiliar with him might have mistaken for rudeness. But he was very much on the side of the underdog. If it wasn't for him I would probably never have learned about the Small Claims Court as he encouraged callers who were being messed about by rogue traders or people who owed them money to sue them.
Jacob's opening gambit was often 'sue em' when presented with a listeners' problem, before elaborating.
He died eleven years ago aged 56.
He died eleven years ago aged 56.
Originally Posted by realwales:
“Gary started out as a regular, weekly guest on Caesar the Gezzer's late-night slot,and also had his own weekend slot in the early days. He came and went a few times during the Talk Radio/talkSPORT era. He was also a regular guest on James Whale's TV show, and had a legal column in the Daily Mirror.
Jacobs lost his Sunday night slot and had a back operation not long afterwards, from which he awoke completely deaf in one ear. This, I think, remained the case for the rest of his life, and was never properly explained. He returned to talkSPORT and did a few overnight shows after this, but sadly died not long afterwards.”
“Gary started out as a regular, weekly guest on Caesar the Gezzer's late-night slot,and also had his own weekend slot in the early days. He came and went a few times during the Talk Radio/talkSPORT era. He was also a regular guest on James Whale's TV show, and had a legal column in the Daily Mirror.
Jacobs lost his Sunday night slot and had a back operation not long afterwards, from which he awoke completely deaf in one ear. This, I think, remained the case for the rest of his life, and was never properly explained. He returned to talkSPORT and did a few overnight shows after this, but sadly died not long afterwards.”
Hi mate long time no see, good to see you again.
I used to really enjoy the show Gary Jacobs did on Talk Radio all those years back I long for shows like that to come back instead of 24 hour blanket coverage premiership football. 
Looking back at the BBC news website around the time of Mike Dicken's death it reported the following, ... "The presenter, who was in his 60s, was involved in a six car pile-up on the A30 on Monday. He was airlifted to hospital but was pronounced dead."
I sort of take that information to be possibly more correct than anything I would have read on Wikipedia so tend to believe it was a road traffic pile-up that caused his death.
I sort of take that information to be possibly more correct than anything I would have read on Wikipedia so tend to believe it was a road traffic pile-up that caused his death.
Nobody has addressed the point I made in the op, George Galloway was going to get mike's slot regardless.
Originally Posted by Maggie_King:
“Nobody has addressed the point I made in the op, George Galloway was going to get mike's slot regardless.”
“Nobody has addressed the point I made in the op, George Galloway was going to get mike's slot regardless.”
Maggie what nights was Mike doing up until his death can you remember?, wasn't George just doing Fridays up until then leaving Mike to do Saturdays and Sundays?.
I have forgotten really but seem to think it was this.
Originally Posted by Maggie_King:
“Nobody has addressed the point I made in the op, George Galloway was going to get mike's slot regardless.”
“Nobody has addressed the point I made in the op, George Galloway was going to get mike's slot regardless.”
I seems fairly unlikely that a conservative (small "c" anyway) broadcaster would be murdered so that a radical pro-Muslim one could take over his show.
Originally Posted by Billy244:
“Maggie what nights was Mike doing up until his death can you remember?, wasn't George just doing Fridays up until then leaving Mike to do Saturdays and Sundays?.
I have forgotten really but seem to think it was this.”
“Maggie what nights was Mike doing up until his death can you remember?, wasn't George just doing Fridays up until then leaving Mike to do Saturdays and Sundays?.
I have forgotten really but seem to think it was this.”
I think Mike Dickin did the late slot Friday, Saturday and Sunday (10pm - 1am) and George Galloway was on beforehand (8pm - 10pm) on Saturday and Sunday. Maybe they were planning to swap their slots. The Story of talkSPORT book describes Dickin as England's answer to Alan Brazil, and he was certainly not in good shape. Always liked him on London Talkback Radio though.
Originally Posted by Billy244:
“Maggie what nights was Mike doing up until his death can you remember?, wasn't George just doing Fridays up until then leaving Mike to do Saturdays and Sundays?.
I have forgotten really but seem to think it was this.”
“Maggie what nights was Mike doing up until his death can you remember?, wasn't George just doing Fridays up until then leaving Mike to do Saturdays and Sundays?.
I have forgotten really but seem to think it was this.”
Mike was on Friday and Saturday nights 10-1, Galloway was on Saturday and sunday nights 8-10. when mike died Galloway took over his Friday night slot. Galloway had said on RTE a month before mikes death that he was getting a third night soon.
Originally Posted by able1:
“My point was not whether or not they were a reliable, sensible product or not but the actual mechanics of how they function.”
“My point was not whether or not they were a reliable, sensible product or not but the actual mechanics of how they function.”
Originally Posted by able1:
“Dickin had literally dozens of programmes on the subject but failed to comprehend at any stage - that and his absolute belief that the moon landings were fake just about summed his intellect up.”
“Dickin had literally dozens of programmes on the subject but failed to comprehend at any stage - that and his absolute belief that the moon landings were fake just about summed his intellect up.”
He underdstood the mechanics of endowment mortgages but he could not understand how they underpinned a loan if they could not guarantee to pay it off.!
The moon landings may have been faked well unless you were there how do you know.! Mike had his beliefs you have yours respect to both.
Do you not agree.
Originally Posted by Ennerjee:
“I remember Mike saying on one of his shows a couple of years before his death that he thought he'd been followed from work one night. He spoke "to" them on air saying that he wasn't frightened of them.
it He originally said, in 1997, that Diana wasn't murdered as was "too messy" to have been an assassination. He'd changed his mind by 1995/6 due to the fact that he'd come to different conclusions based on his study of it.
They're the reasons that his death could sound suspicious, however, his health was evidently failing. Some say he was driving the car himself, others that he was a passenger.”
“I remember Mike saying on one of his shows a couple of years before his death that he thought he'd been followed from work one night. He spoke "to" them on air saying that he wasn't frightened of them.
it He originally said, in 1997, that Diana wasn't murdered as was "too messy" to have been an assassination. He'd changed his mind by 1995/6 due to the fact that he'd come to different conclusions based on his study of it.
They're the reasons that his death could sound suspicious, however, his health was evidently failing. Some say he was driving the car himself, others that he was a passenger.”
Eh, Diana died in 1997 and he changed his mind about how she died in 1995/6.
Originally Posted by ahoymeister:
“I think Mike Dickin did the late slot Friday, Saturday and Sunday (10pm - 1am) and George Galloway was on beforehand (8pm - 10pm) on Saturday and Sunday. Maybe they were planning to swap their slots. The Story of talkSPORT book describes Dickin as England's answer to Alan Brazil, and he was certainly not in good shape. Always liked him on London Talkback Radio though.”
“I think Mike Dickin did the late slot Friday, Saturday and Sunday (10pm - 1am) and George Galloway was on beforehand (8pm - 10pm) on Saturday and Sunday. Maybe they were planning to swap their slots. The Story of talkSPORT book describes Dickin as England's answer to Alan Brazil, and he was certainly not in good shape. Always liked him on London Talkback Radio though.”
Oh that's it it was something along those lines I was thinking they covered the same slots and of course Mike did overnights didn't he gawd knows what I was think about.
Originally Posted by Richard1960:
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He underdstood the mechanics of endowment mortgages but he could not understand how they underpinned a loan if they could not guarantee to pay it off.!
The moon landings may have been faked well unless you were there how do you know.! Mike had his beliefs you have yours respect to both.
Do you not agree.”
“[b]
He underdstood the mechanics of endowment mortgages but he could not understand how they underpinned a loan if they could not guarantee to pay it off.!
The moon landings may have been faked well unless you were there how do you know.! Mike had his beliefs you have yours respect to both.
Do you not agree.
”
Richard can I respectfully ask you do you honestly believe none of the American moon landings ever happened?, it's not a loaded question it's an honest straight question.
Originally Posted by North Downs:
“Eh, Diana died in 1997 and he changed his mind about how she died in 1995/6.”
“Eh, Diana died in 1997 and he changed his mind about how she died in 1995/6.
”
He should have spoken up in 95 and saved a lot of pain.
In the latter years of his life the shows were presented from a dentists in Cornwall that had an ISDN line. He arrived 30 minutes before the show went to air, plugged in the line and waited to start. He was 'tired and emotional' on many occasions. One night he plugged in and went for a lie down on a couch in the waiting room and proceeded to fall asleep. The producer couldn't shout loud enough to wake him up, so a brief interlude ensued whilst Mike Mendoza was rushed to air to fill in.
This was the show that began my radio-phoning-up career. I wanted to explain to Mike and Richard the problem with their misunderstanding of the hoary old chestnut "If God exists, why does he allow suffering?" (I come on at 39mins 49secs)
It was nice to get his admission that, since he doesn't believe in God, it would never occur to him to consider the question from a spiritual perspective. Exactly my point! Though he didn't sound as if he understood - or wanted to understand - why I made it. Still, I liked his shows and their opportunity to have such discussions in the first place.
If you ask a question about the existence of a spiritual being you need to be able to think about the question from a spiritual perspective. Applying humanist atheistic philosophy to a question asking about God's potential motivation for doing anything is simply not going to get you anywhere. It's like trying to measure the circumference of the M25 using the smell of rain.
It was a great period for talk radio back then. Nowadays I have to try to make do with LBC which has now become basically the Fox news of UK radio. But it's more profitable for the shareholders, and that's the important thing, right!?
It was nice to get his admission that, since he doesn't believe in God, it would never occur to him to consider the question from a spiritual perspective. Exactly my point! Though he didn't sound as if he understood - or wanted to understand - why I made it. Still, I liked his shows and their opportunity to have such discussions in the first place.
If you ask a question about the existence of a spiritual being you need to be able to think about the question from a spiritual perspective. Applying humanist atheistic philosophy to a question asking about God's potential motivation for doing anything is simply not going to get you anywhere. It's like trying to measure the circumference of the M25 using the smell of rain.
It was a great period for talk radio back then. Nowadays I have to try to make do with LBC which has now become basically the Fox news of UK radio. But it's more profitable for the shareholders, and that's the important thing, right!?
Originally Posted by Billy244:
“He should have spoken up in 95 and saved a lot of pain.”
“He should have spoken up in 95 and saved a lot of pain.
”
I obviously meant 2005 !
Originally Posted by Lone Drinker:
“In the latter years of his life the shows were presented from a dentists in Cornwall that had an ISDN line. He arrived 30 minutes before the show went to air, plugged in the line and waited to start. He was 'tired and emotional' on many occasions. One night he plugged in and went for a lie down on a couch in the waiting room and proceeded to fall asleep. The producer couldn't shout loud enough to wake him up, so a brief interlude ensued whilst Mike Mendoza was rushed to air to fill in.”
“In the latter years of his life the shows were presented from a dentists in Cornwall that had an ISDN line. He arrived 30 minutes before the show went to air, plugged in the line and waited to start. He was 'tired and emotional' on many occasions. One night he plugged in and went for a lie down on a couch in the waiting room and proceeded to fall asleep. The producer couldn't shout loud enough to wake him up, so a brief interlude ensued whilst Mike Mendoza was rushed to air to fill in.”
I wasn't aware the 'studios' was a dentists but that would make sense. He definitely wasn't in the best of health by that stage and his shows weren't quite of the same standard as during earlier years.
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