Saturday 4th June 1983

Hamilton's first role on BBC Radio was in 1962, when he presented The Beat Show. This featured all the leading pop groups of the day and was recorded at the Playhouse theatre in Manchester on Monday evenings. The show was transmitted on the BBC Light Programme on Thursday lunchtimes. It ran up until 1965.

He presented the final episode of Housewives' Choice in 1967. He was first heard on the then newly launched BBC Radio 1 in November 1967, presenting Family Choice. This show was simultaneously broadcast on BBC Radio 2. By the late Sixties, David was presenting many shows for BBC Radio, such as Music through Midnight, Roundabout, Pop Inn & Radio 1 Club.

In 1973 Hamilton was offered his own daily radio show on BBC Radio 1 every weekday afternoon from 2:00 to 4:30pm. In January 1975 the BBC made financial cutbacks, which meant his afternoon show was broadcast simultaneously on both Radio 1 and Radio 2.

From November 1977 Tony Blackburn took over Radio 1's afternoon show and Hamilton's afternoon show was heard solely on BBC Radio 2. In 1980 Hamilton took over Radio 2's weekday 12:00 to 2:00pm lunchtime show and then in 1981 took over the weekday 4:00 to 5:45pm afternoon show. In early 1986 this show began broadcasting from 3:30 to 5:00pm.

In April 1986, Radio 2 was relaunched by its head of music Frances Line, who threw out playing contemporary rock and pop music in favour of a more 'golden oldie' feel. Hamilton quit in November that year, claiming that the music policy had become "geriatric" and that "there's only so much Max Bygraves and Vera Lynn you can play".

Commercial Radio
Since January 1987 Hamilton has been heard on many commercial stations in the UK. He joined Reading's Radio 210 and presented its daily 8:00 to 11:00am mid-morning show before joining Capital Gold in November 1988 to present its daily 10:00am to 12:30pm mid-morning show. He then moved to the 12:00 to 2:00pm lunchtime show.
In addition to that, he also presented a weekly oldies show which was heard on various ILR stations around the UK. This was usually heard on a Sunday afternoon.

In late 1994 Hamilton presented the Breakfast show on Melody FM (now Magic 105.4) for four years before moving to London's Liberty Radio to present an afternoon show and on the Classic Gold Network, taking over from Simon Bates on the weekday evening show in 1999 up until 2001.
As well as Classic Gold, in 2000 he joined PrimeTime Radio, presenting the weekday mid-morning show, where he remained until its demise in 2006. In addition to this, in October 2001 he left Classic Gold & presented the breakfast show on Birmingham's Saga 105.7 FM before moving to Nottingham's Saga 106.6 FM in early 2003.

Current Work
From June 2006 David was heard on Big L every weekday afternoon from 1-5pm. He left this show in the summer of 2007, but his Million Sellers show can still be heard every weekday evening from 9-10pm.
His Million Sellers show can also be heard on a number of local commercial stations across the UK, usually on a Saturday or Sunday evening. David can also be seen regularly on BBC1's Match of the Day and BSkyB's Football First as he is the Matchday Compère at Fulham Football Club.

Carnival Queen
Hospital Saving Association clerk Siobhan Flood has become Andover's carnival queen for 1983.
Siobhan (19), of Sutherland Court, Andover, was chosen from 25 girls at the selection at the Country Bumpkin Club on Saturday night.

Siobhan received as her prize a silver locket, a candlelit supper for two at The Plough Inn at Grateley and a bottle of champagne.

The girls chosen as her attendants were Sally Nailard, of East Everleigh Stables, Evereligh, and Debbie Bailey (19), a part-time shop assistant, of Constable Court, Andover. They each received a silver locket and a bottle of champagne.

Special guest at the evening was disc jockey David Hamilton. He interviewed the girls along with the three Round Table judges Martin Cooper, Michael Greenwood and Michael Johnson.
The evening was organised jointly by the Country Bumpkin Club and the Round Table for the carnival on 2 July.

The lockets and supper for two were paid for by AMF Legg and the champagne was provided by the club.

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