Ed Doolan

A chum with Birmingham in his cv writes:

He'd interviewed just about everyone - prime ministers and presidents and earned a reputation as a champion of victims of bureaucracy. His show on Birmingham's Radio WM put the station on the RAJAR map after he was poached from the city's hugely successful BRMB 35 years ago.

He wad a gregarious Aussie-born Anglophile, the first local radio presenter to be inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame, in 2004. He was also awarded the MBE. He gave up his daily radio show in 2011 and was diagnosed with vascular dementia a year later.

Before Ed joined WM, many of us who cut our teeth on the station felt we were broadcasting in a vacuum. Ed leaves another.