publicist. This swiftly became a chain called Snob. Nightingale put on fashion shows and took part in them, notably a charity show for the Duke Of Norfolk at Arundel Castle, West Sussex. She also became a well-known fashion model at the time, with sessions with such photographers as Philip Townsend and Dezo Hoffman. At this time Nightingale wrote regular columns and was both featured in and a feature writer for leading youth magazines such as Town, Fabulous, Honey 19, and Petticoat. She specialised in writing about teen issues, burgeoning feminist perspectives and social issues. Nightingale also wrote for the music magazine Disc and Music Echo. Nightingale was the pop music columnist and feature writer for Cosmopolitan when it launched in the UK. Later and until the mid-eighties, she wrote regularly for the Sunday Mirror and wrote music columns for The Daily Sketch and The Daily Express. It was the huge impact of pop pirate ships, broadcasting illegally into Great Britain from international waters, that inspired Nightingale (who was by this time steeped in pop culture) to want to become a disc jockey. The pirate ships were outlawed by the UK government and shut down. Prime Minister Harold Wilson decreed that the BBC would run a new pop music station on land from London to replace them. This became Radio 1 and was launched in September 1967. It was decreed by the production teams launching Radio 1 (many of whom were male ex RAF staff), that there would be no women on air. Nightingale applied for a job as a Radio 1 DJ but was firmly rejected on the grounds of being a woman. Radio 1 decreed that its all-male DJ team were ‘husband substitutes' and that a woman among them would alienate what they perceived to be a mostly female audience. Nightingale persisted for three years and was only given a chance to audition by her friends the Beatles and their staff at Apple Records. Nightingale was given a trial run of six programmes before she was signed as the first female DJ on Radio 1. Her first shows (after a trial run on Sunday nights), were daytime afternoon slots, handed over from Terry Wogan who made Nightingale laugh so much she had to control her mirth to deliver her first link smoothly. Nightingale remained the only female DJ at Radio 1 for 12 years, from 1970 until 1982 when