David Hamilton reflects on his diddy years in new book

The Boom Radio personality has looked back upon his extensive career and off-air life stories…

David Hamilton is a legendary presenter who has featured on UK television and radio for over six decades.

He has worked for the BBC and ITV both across the network on television as well as regionally. From continuity announcing – introducing programmes – for stations such as Tyne Tees, ABC and Thames to hosting TV series such as game shows Try for Ten (Anglia TV), All Clued Up (TVS) and as one of the many rotation of hosts on chart show Top of the Pops (BBC). He also hosted his own chat show The David Hamilton Show for BCTV in Birmingham a decade ago.

On the radio, David has had regular shows on various BBC stations over the years and is currently heard on Boom Radio across the UK as well as a regular contributor to BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio Surrey.

All Clued Up, TVS

David was born David Pilditch on the 10th of September 1938. He started his journey in broadcasting in 1959 with ABC in Manchester, then Newcastle with Tyne Tees, having previously been a script writer for ATV in London. He was given the ‘Diddy David Hamilton’ nickname by the late comedian Sir Ken Dodd.

His debut new book, David Hamilton’s Long and Winding Road is an exciting new biography title filled with decades of stories of his legendary career, love life and many celebrity encounters.

David Hamilton’s ‘Long and Winding Road’ has taken him from the remote farm in Sussex where he grew up, dreaming of the bright lights, to working all over the UK and in America in a broadcasting career that has lasted for seven decades, eventually bringing him back after over fifty years to the same farm where he started, from which he would broadcast on national radio in his mid-eighties.

David Hamilton, BBC Radio 1

This road took David to Germany where, during his National Service in the RAF, he became one of the first DJs to play rock ’n’ roll. Four years later, he did one of the first TV interviews with a new group called The Beatles. Since then he has presented thousands of radio shows.

In this amazingly frank memoir, David tells what it was like working with such comedy greats as Ken Dodd, Benny Hill and Tommy Cooper; of the two serious car crashes he had in his twenties; of how he rode in a speedway race at Wembley Stadium; about his time as a football club director and how he played in the England team that won the World Cup in 1966. David writes of the beautiful women he has loved. His life, his loves, his laughs. It’s all here, from one of Britain’s most enduring broadcasters.

The book is emotive, creative, and inspirational. It also reveals a different side of David and his long career in the media industry.

More information and ways to buy the book can be found here at austinmacauley.com