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RnB with Ronnie Herel: Homegrown Past - Tony Blackburn: Homegrown Heroes - Tony Blackburn

Homegrown Heroes - Tony Blackburn

Homegrown Past - Tony Blackburn

Homegrown Past - Tony Blackburn: Homegrown Heroes - Tony Blackburn

BBC Radio 1Xtra - RnB with Ronnie Herel, Homegrown Heroes - Tony Blackburn

Ronnie catches up with his HomeGrown Hero, soul music champion Tony Blackburn.

As part of 1Xtra's HomeGrown season, Ronnie catches up with his HomeGrown Hero Tony Blackburn, the original champion of soul music in the UK.

This week Ronnie salutes his homegrown hero from the past as he is in conversation with radio legend Tony Blackburn. Ronnie chats to him about how he started in radio and why he decided to start playing soul music when everyone else was playing pop. Also thereâs new cuts from Nathan featuring Flo Rida, Rian Peters teaming up with Wiley & a soulful joint from Dwele. Ronnieâs also got the five hottest RnB tracks of the moment in the 1Xtra RnB chart, big.

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