Fifty years ago this October, Londoners were woken at 6am by the amiable tones of the journalist David Jessel welcoming them to Britain's first commercial news station, LBC.
These days, of course, it has a roster of well-known names and claims more than three million weekly listeners. But, in those early weeks and months in 1973, the London Broadcasting Company was wonderfully odd and chaotic.
Jessel was followed on air by Janet Street-Porter and Paul Callan who hosted a chat show called – the exclamation mark was included in its title.
