The radio quiz – compiled by PM presenter Eddie Mair

  1. What links Ed Stewart, who died in January, with Dad’s Army creator Jimmy Perry, who died in October?
  2. Which presenter said of radio listeners: “They either like you or they don’t”?
  3. Cliff Michelmore died this year aged 96. He met his wife, Jean, over the airwaves when they made which radio show together?
  4. Desmond Carrington signed off from Radio 2’s The Music Goes Round after 70 years on radio. What was the final track he played?
  5. Radio 3 celebrated 70 years on air this year. What was the network’s original name?
  6. Which former Apprentice contestant landed her own show on LBC this year?
  7. A radio station that launched in 1993 but changed its identity in 2008 returned to the digital airwaves this year under its original name. What’s it called?
  8. The Radio Academy Awards were reinstated this year after a hiatus. Formerly known as the Sonys, what are they called now?
  9. Ten years after the death of Radio 4’s Nick Clarke, which broadcaster won the Nick Clarke Award for best interview?
  10. Radio Times readers chose their favourite radio voices this year. Who shared the RT cover photo with me to mark the occasion?
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