Tony Blackburn to receive Radio Academy Gold Award

RHIAN JONES

Tony Blackburn will be awarded the lifetime achievement Gold Award at this year’s Radio Academy Awards.

The ceremony takes place in The Great Room of London’s Grosvenor House Hotel on the evening of Monday May, 12.

Celebrating his 50th year in broadcasting, Blackburn is now a second time winner of the gong – it’s first time in the 32-year history of the Awards that a broadcaster has received the Gold Award twice. He was first awarded the honour in 1989 ...

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