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‘But will it satisfy Mrs Prosser from Pontlottyn?’

A ‘phone-in to a radio psychiatrist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Michael Shooter*
Affiliation:
Preswylfa Child and Family Centre, Clive Road, Canton, Cardiff
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In April 1987, in a back-street bar in Cardiff, the rebel regime at Radio Wales were plotting a coup. Their secret weapon was a daily magazine programme of music and current affairs called Streetlife. The would-be front-men, Ray Gravell (British Lions centre) and Frank Hennessy (Cardiff-Irish folk singer) had just persuaded the Editor that it needed an ‘agony uncle'… when I walked in.

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