ships operated by Cunard, Fred Olson Cruise Lines, Saga Cruises, Thomson Cruises, P&O Cruises and Cruise & Maritime Voyages. Awards and honours In 1992, he was the first non-broadcaster to receive a Ferguson Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio from the Radio Academy. The following year, he was elected President of the Television and Radio Industry Club of Great Britain. He also became a governor of the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in May 1993, and in the same month was presented with a Sony Award for Outstanding Services to the Radio Industry. In 2005 was made a Fellow of the Radio Academy. Personal life In 1959 he married Carol Ann Reynolds, with whom he has a son, David Beerling, and daughter, Julie Margaret Wood. They divorced in 1993. Later that year, he married Celia Margeret Potter, whom he also divorced five years later. He married Susan Patricia Armstrong in 1999. He lives in West Sussex. References 1937 births Living people BBC radio producers BBC executives BBC Radio 1 controllers British radio DJs British radio personalities People from Sandwich, Kent People from Skipton People educated at Sir Roger Manwood's School People from West Sussex