Richard Spendlove

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Richard Spendlove MBE (born 16 June 1939) is a retired British radio presenter/producer and television writer.

Life and work

Spendlove was born in

With David Croft he wrote and created a BBC TV comedy series, Oh, Doctor Beeching!, which ran on BBC One between 1995 and 1997.

From 1989 until 2017, Spendlove worked for

Since then, the Saturday night show format has returned on and off. From 4 December 2017 to 25 March 2018, Spendlove returned to broadcast the show on Mildenhall, Suffolk based community station Zack FM, on Monday nights and later Sunday nights. From late 2018 to May 2020, the show was broadcast live, on and off, on selected Saturday and later Sunday evenings online, and had a dedicated Facebook page.

Spendlove was awarded the MBE for "Services to Regional and Local Radio Broadcasting" in 2000.^[2][3]

In 2016, the BBC was critical of his use of his show to gain support for a convicted

Spendlove now lives in Harston, Cambridgeshire.

He and his wife Betty, who sat opposite him in the studio during his Saturday night show for much of the run on the BBC, married in November 1960. She died in August 2021.

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