This much I know - Martin King

I’ve been on radio since I was fifteen and realised that I was not going to make it as a professional footballer.

I thought it might be good to be a sports commentator. I got a job answering the phones at night at a pirate radio called Big D with DJs like Dave Fanning and Smiley Bolger. One night, one of the DJs didn’t show up for his shift. The guy who was on before him had to leave for his day job and said ‘you have a go’. It was very frightening. But that’s how I got the bug.

I’ve interviewed a lot of people who have had to deal with really difficult things. They often tell me that it was harder on the people around them to deal with the situation than it was on themselves. I know what they mean.