Extreme BBC News survivor Laurie Margolis leaves this Friday, aged at least 74. He was at the news game as a student in 1970, using his shortwave radio to talk to King Hussein of Jordan.
His dad, Maurice, who had businesses in clothing and tv repair in Ilford, got into amateur radio after watching a French film, Race For Life. Son Laurie had his own set by seven, mastered Morse code by eight, and was the youngest member of the Radio Society of Great Britain, at the age of nine.
Laurie freelanced for Radio 4 in Wales whilst at Cardiff University, and joined the staff of Radio Sheffield in 1974, and became a News Trainee in 1975.
Amongst scoops with his radio, first confirmation of what was going on in the Falklands in 1982.
But there were other journalistic highlights.
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