Every weekday for the last six years millions of housewives after packing off their husbands to work and their children to school have tuned in to Jimmy Young on Radio 1. Since 1 June he hasn't been there. On Monday he began a new programme on Radio 2.
To his fans Jimmy is more than just a disembodied voice, he is a friend. Someone to confide in. The World of Jimmy Young traces the creation of his new programme from the moment of its conception up to Monday's first broadcast. It looks at Jimmy's rise from baker's boy to pop idol; Petula Clark recalls recording duets with Jim in a primitive studio where the lavatory served as the echo chamber.
The programme shows the pressures of the public and private life of this unique broadcaster.