Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell OBE (born Nicholas Lackey, 10 April 1961) is a Scottish broadcaster and journalist. He has worked in television and radio since 1981 and as a network presenter with BBC Radio since 1987. Early life Campbell was born in Portobello, Edinburgh in April 1961 and was taken for adoption at just a few days old. His adoptive mother was a psychiatric social worker and his adoptive father a publisher of maps. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school. In July 2022, he disclosed that he witnessed and experienced sexual and violent physical abuse there, which had a "profound effect on [his] life". He studied history at the University of Aberdeen and graduated with a 2:1 degree. Career Radio In his 2021 memoir ‘One of the Family’ Campbell describes his lifelong obsession with radio and how he and his best friend at the time, the actor Iain Glen, would call various Radio Forth phone in shows pretending to be different characters. He started working for Northsound Radio in Aberdeen while still at University there, making commercials and writing jingles. In 1983 he was offered his own show, The World of Opera, which aired every Sunday night at 9pm. On one occasion the DJ presenting the late night pop show after him did not turn up and Campbell had to take the reins. Shortly after this he was offered the station's Breakfast Show which he presented until 1986 when he sent a tape to Capital Radio in London and was given a try-out on the Saturday Afternoon Show. He then took over the Weekend Breakfast Show from Roger Scott and was used as a daytime "dep" for all the main daytime programmes. The Capital Radio roster at the time included Roger Scott, Kenny Everett, Alan Freeman, Chris Tarrant and David ‘Kid’ Jensen. It was while standing in for Tarrant and also Jensen that the Head of Music at Radio One Doreen Davis poached him from Capital and he joined the national network in October 1987. He first presented the late night Saturday programme but was soon moved to the weekend early show. In 1989 he was offered the weekday late night slot which was named Into the Night. He played a wide variety of music and hosted an eclectic selection of guests for long interviews. These included Frank Zappa, David Icke, John Major, the Bee Gees