Billy Butler (DJ)
| Billy Butler | |
|---|---|
| Born |
William George Butler 24 January 1942 Amlwch, Anglesey, Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Radio presenter |
William George 'Billy' Butler (born 24 January 1942) is a radio presenter on BBC Radio Merseyside. In the course of his career, he has presented TV shows such as FAX and the magazine programme What the Butler Sees. In September 2010 he published his autobiography Billy Butler MBE – Mrs Butler’s Eldest.
Butler was born in Amlwch, Anglesey in Wales. In the 1960s he was a DJ at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. He appeared in Scousers in St Helens on 26 October 2010 alongside Tina Malone, Margi Clarke and many others.
After several years at Radio City, Billy left by playing Cliff Richard's Can't Keep This Feeling In twice during a breakfast show on sister station Magic 1548 and saying this was what the listeners asked for, but the station playlist would not allow him to play and walked out while live on air.
Hold Your Plums was a radio quiz show which ran for over a decade on BBC Radio Merseyside. It was hosted by Billy Butler and Wally Scott .
Hold Your Plums started out as a segment of Billy Butler’s radio show and was extended to a two-hour show of its own. It was broadcast live from the BBC Radio Merseyside Studio’s on Paradise Street in Liverpool on Sundays from 11am to 1pm, using Root Beer Rag composed by Billy Joel as its regular catchy theme tune. Mostly an audience was present in the studio as the show went out.
The setup of the show was that contestants answered a general knowledge question correctly to be allowed a go of the fruit machine to see if they win a prize. Contestants had to match up three symbols of Bells, Cherries or Lemons to win a prize. If they were lucky enough to match up three Plums then they win the star prize. If they collected three different symbols they were able to ‘nudge’ the symbols into a winning combination, as on a standard fruit machine. A member of the audience was delegated the job of 'Nudger-Watcher' and would have to call out ‘The nudge is out’ should three different symbols be given by the fruit-machine. If contestants received two matching symbols they were asked to ‘hold’ the two that matched and were given one last spin to see if they matched the third symbol, and because Plums were the shows top symbol to win its star prize contestants were encouraged to ‘Hold Your Plums’, coining the show's name. The prizes were often tacky silly pointless objects and were only added for comical value. Often contestants would return to the show and become regular stars themselves often complaining to Billy or Wally that the prize they won last time on the show was never delivered adding more comical value.
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