Foz in the Radio Orwell newsroom - Credit: Stephen Foster It was a summer's day in my hometown of Ipswich. The year 1982. The location The Great White Horse Hotel. Unbeknown to me, it was the day that changed my life. Chris Opperman, the recently appointed programme organiser at Ipswich's commercial station Radio Orwell, and his news editor Andy Kluz had asked me to join them for a lunchtime meeting at a place in Suffolk's county town long associated with the author Charles Dickens. A fresh-faced Foz reading the news - Credit: Stephen Foster I had no great expectations of what was to come, just high hopes that they might have some more freelance work for me. Up until that point I'd been heavily involved in the Sunday evening teenagers' magazine Platform, a role I'd combined with a bit of tape reclaiming and coffee making on a Tuesday night.