Mike Dickin
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Mike Dickin
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| Birth name | Robert Michael Dickin |
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28 September 1943 Reading, England |
| Died | 18 December 2006 (aged 63) Bodmin, Cornwall, England |
| Show | Talksport |
| Children | 5 |
Robert Michael "Mike" Dickin (28 September 1943 – 18 December 2006), was an English radio DJ, best known as the late-night host on the radio station talkSPORT.
Dickin used to present the 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. slot at weekends on Talk Radio UK from 1995 to 2001. He returned, filling in for James Whale during James's battle with kidney cancer. He was given the morning show slot soon afterwards, and then moved to the 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. show on weekends before his death.
Born in 1943 in Reading, Berkshire, he started out as a musician in the 1960s, Dickin was a bass player and singer who found he preferred playing records to making them when he joined the BBC in 1970 as the first presenter on air at Radio Oxford.
In 1977, he competed in the London to Sydney Rally in a Mini 1275GT, co-driven by musician Simon Park. The same year, Dickin moved to Australia where he worked for Sydney's biggest radio station, 2UE. Upon returning to England in the late '70s, he spent 17 years working for BBC Radio 4, LBC, and Capital Radio. He started at Talksport (then Talk Radio UK) in 1995, taking over from Nick Miller.
Dickin was on air in the UK overnight when news of the car crash which subsequently killed Diana, Princess of Wales was broken, and he was still on air to make the announcement of her death as a newsflash. Audio of this broadcast can be heard from the external links section.
Although he had a reputation as an argumentative controversialist, he was no shock jock. Preferring the rapier over the sword, his put downs were withering and waspish enough without needing to raise his voice or resort to vulgarity. During a phone-in on religion in late 2005, a caller mentioned Scientology, Dickin replied sardonically: "Ah yes. Tom Cruise and John Travolta - two of the great theologians of our age."
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