Editing Jimmy Young (broadcaster) (section)

==Disc jockey and radio broadcaster==
After a period with [[Radio Luxembourg]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8776016/Sir-Jimmy-Young-Ive-forgiven-the-BBC-for-sacking-me.html|title=Sir Jimmy Young: I've forgiven the BBC for sacking me|author= Wilson, Benji|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date = 20 September 2011|access-date=7 November 2016}}</ref> Young joined the [[BBC]]. He became a host of ''[[Housewives' Choice]]'', on the [[BBC Light Programme]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20582848 |title=Obituary: Jimmy Young |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=30 January 2018}}</ref> and later he became one of the first disc jockeys on [[BBC Radio 1]], presenting the weekday mid-morning show from 1967 to 1973.<ref name="AMG">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-young-mn0001381510/biography|title=Jimmy Young &#124; Biography & History|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=30 October 2019}}</ref> He then joined [[BBC Radio 2]] in 1973, where he presented a daily lunchtime news and current affairs programme. The show (which he referred to as "The JY Prog"), ran from 2 July 1973 to 20 December 2002.

He developed a popular approach to current affairs and regularly interviewed [[Margaret Thatcher]] while she was Prime Minister. He broadcast from around the world, including several live shows from [[Moscow]], the first in 1977, and interviewed every British Prime Minister from 1964 to 2010. His theme music was "Town Talk" by [[Ken Woodman]] & His Piccadilly Brass. BFN ('Bye for now') was one of his [[catchphrase]]s.<ref name=bbctooold />

Although he was offered the opportunity to present a weekend current affairs programme, he turned it down. His radio slot was taken over by the former ''[[Newsnight]]'' presenter, [[Jeremy Vine]]. Shortly after leaving and retiring from the BBC, Young wrote a newspaper column criticising his former employer for instances of "brutality", and making clear that it had not been his idea to leave.<ref name="a BBC News">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2628833.stm |title= Sir Jimmy vents anger in column |work=[[BBC News]] |date=5 January 2003 |access-date=12 December 2012}}</ref> He declined lunch with his successor and the pair never met.<ref name="Guardian200601">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/01/jeremy-vine-at-the-bbc-you-can-have-values-but-you-cant-have-views-thats-how-i-operate |work=[[The Guardian]] |title=Jeremy Vine: 'At the BBC you can have values but you can't have views – that's how I operate' |author=Moss, Stephen |date=1 June 2020 |access-date=1 June 2020}}</ref>
 
He continued to write a weekly column for the ''[[Sunday Express]]'' newspaper until he retired from this role in November 2014.<ref>"Although parting is such sweet sorrow, it's time for me to go", ''Sunday Express'' page 37, 2 November 2014</ref> He did present a Christmas Day show in 2003 on [[BBC Radio Gloucestershire]]. On the same day he also appeared on 'Loose Ends' on [[BBC Radio 4]].

Young returned to [[BBC Radio 2]] in 2011 with a special one-hour programme in celebration of his 90th birthday.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/08_august/16/sirjimmy.shtml |title=BBC Radio 2 welcomes back legendary broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young CBE |publisher=[[BBC]] |date = 16 August 2011|access-date=12 December 2012}}</ref> ''Sir Jimmy Young at 90'', broadcast on 20 September 2011, heard him in conversation with his friend and former sparring partner [[Ken Bruce]], looking back over his career. In March 2012 Young returned to presenting on Radio 2 after over nine years when he joined [[Desmond Carrington]] on a weekly show entitled ''Icons of the '50s''. His final radio appearance was in February 2016 when he gave a brief tribute to his former colleague Sir [[Terry Wogan]] on Radio 2's ''[[Jeremy Vine Show]]'', the programme that replaced Young's in 2003.