Angela Bond

Angela Bond will be remembered fondly by so many people whose lives she impacted on.

For a generation, she was the voice at the end of the trimphone when one had Selector issues. When this new-fangled computerised music programming tool behaved in odd ways back in the 80s, Angela, and indeed most of her family, would be on-hand to help. It was usually late at night on a Friday, as one tried to finish off all the weekend logs. These were days before email, with logs printed out by a dot matrix printer and back-ups stored on a set of floppy disks.
Angela would also pop up in person to train new Selector operators too. She’d weigh up the ‘wet behind the ears’ new recruits within seconds; and handle them beautifully. So many of them were not aware that this wonderful no-nonsense character had seen talent come and go over the years in her pre-RCS producer life.

She’d been around in the giddy early days at Radio 1 and 2; and indeed in the Light Programme's Gramophone library. Famously, she produced Kenny Everett and was said to be the person who persuaded the BBC to give him his first show. His biographer, David Lister observed: “Between programmes he would pour his heart out (to Angela) about how he hated the BBC bureaucracy and stuffiness; about his own feelings of inadequacy, his shyness, dislike of his own appearance, his “short, skinny legs”.

Her love and knowledge of music from its analogue days were a fitting foundation for embracing the computerised generation which was to come.

                                                                                                   Angela, who liked wearing hats, was born in Hull.  Early in her career, she'd been a rare female broadcaster, on-air in Hong Kong. She died on 9th January 2013.