Hillsborough interview - Sheffield hallam fm
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:20 amHi Guys ,
I was recently contacted by Hallam FM, a commercial radio station based in Sheffield and asked if I'd give an interview on my memories of April 15th 1989 to be aired on April 15th 2009 in Sheffield as part of their memorial service.
It's worth pointing out at this stage that Hallam FM is a sister station to Radio city in Merseyside so I knew the interview and editting would be done sensitively and respectfully.
As many of you know I am a survivor from that terrible day and after some careful consideration I agreed to give an account and my recollections of the day. I was joined for the interview by best friend and fellow survivor Mark Dixon.
The interview took place last monday at my home and has been edited for their braodacast tomorrow (April 15th)
I appreciate many of you (including myself) won't be able to receive Hallam FM but the interview is also on their website and the link is :
http://www.hallamfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=1272892&spid=25619
There are other interviews on the site including one with Brian Laws who was a Notttingham Forest player on that day and is now manager of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.
My motivation for giving the interview was in some small way inform people in Sheffield (where most people who will listen to the interview are based ) that those caught up in the Hillsborough tragedy are just normal everyday people who love life and football but should never have been put in the position we were on that day.
The interview took around 40 mins but it's been heavily editted for radio but I trust it comes across well and conveys the sense of sadness and injustice many of us still feel about the tragedy.......
Walk on.
YNWA 96
I was recently contacted by Hallam FM, a commercial radio station based in Sheffield and asked if I'd give an interview on my memories of April 15th 1989 to be aired on April 15th 2009 in Sheffield as part of their memorial service.
It's worth pointing out at this stage that Hallam FM is a sister station to Radio city in Merseyside so I knew the interview and editting would be done sensitively and respectfully.
As many of you know I am a survivor from that terrible day and after some careful consideration I agreed to give an account and my recollections of the day. I was joined for the interview by best friend and fellow survivor Mark Dixon.
The interview took place last monday at my home and has been edited for their braodacast tomorrow (April 15th)
I appreciate many of you (including myself) won't be able to receive Hallam FM but the interview is also on their website and the link is :
http://www.hallamfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=1272892&spid=25619
There are other interviews on the site including one with Brian Laws who was a Notttingham Forest player on that day and is now manager of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.
My motivation for giving the interview was in some small way inform people in Sheffield (where most people who will listen to the interview are based ) that those caught up in the Hillsborough tragedy are just normal everyday people who love life and football but should never have been put in the position we were on that day.
The interview took around 40 mins but it's been heavily editted for radio but I trust it comes across well and conveys the sense of sadness and injustice many of us still feel about the tragedy.......
Walk on.
YNWA 96