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Helen Skelton’s Radio 5 Live exit was a dignified affair – which is more than can be said of these memorable broadcast departures
Memories of the Radio 1 Roadshow and its summer dates in Margate, Folkestone, Deal and Maidstone as Tony 'Smiley Miley' Miles looks back | Updated: 08:05, 02 February 2021 In 2008, the BBC's Radio 1 Big Weekend rolled into the county for a two-day music extravaganza. Around 34,000 people were lucky enough to get their hands on the free tickets - some 518,000 applied - lured by a frankly stellar line-up which included headliner Madonna and even featured an up-and-coming Adele trotting out the tunes at Maidstone's Mote Park. The very first Radio 1 roadshow in Newquay on July 23, 1973 with A...