at that time. The music used for that rundown was Booker T. & the M.G.'s track, "Time is Tight". A further "sound effect" which may have been forgotten by many is the one used during the first two hours of the show to denote a record that was thought to be about to enter the top 20 which had the sound of a bubbling hot mixture with a vocal saying "This ones bubbling under" ! A sung jingle was also included in the first two hours for new releases which went.."Its a new one, a new one...repeated". The Sunday chart show would be the only show Browne ever presented on Radio 1, but he did present occasional music documentaries on the station, notably on ABBA, Queen and The Stylistics, and he never showed any sign of crossing over permanently to television (except for his appearances mentioned earlier), for example via Top of the Pops. His smooth style and received pronunciation James Mason-like voice (becoming more noticeable in later years; initially he had tried to sound more like a 1970s pop radio DJ) were unusual for Radio 1 even then, and would be utterly unthinkable now. Later broadcasting career After leaving Radio 1 he broadcast for BBC Radio 2 in the early 1980s and provided the voiceover for many TV and radio adverts. He subsequently became a newsreader for BBC World television and then moved to Hong Kong, where he became a popular broadcaster on the British Armed Forces radio service in the final years of British rule. His final appearance as a DJ on national BBC radio came at the very end of 1991, when he presented "The Million Selling Singles of the 60s and 70s" on BBC Radio 2, although he was a contributor to Radio 1's "25 Years of the UK Top 40", which aired in September 1992. He fronted BFBS Radio Hong Kong's weekday breakfast show until the territory reverted to Chinese rule in 1997 and continued working in radio, as well as a commercial voice-over artist and freelance video presenter until 2005. In 2003 he recorded linking vocals for Shaun Tilley's UK Rewind Top Twenty Show. Retirement Browne moved to Thailand to retire with his Thai wife where he owns a farm where they grow mushrooms and rice. References 1945 births Alumni of RADA English male voice actors English radio DJs BBC Radio 1 presenters Living