LIFE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE THAMES - KENT:

I was at Invicta for about a year. After a few weeks of presenting  the overnight show  at weekends I became the regular overnight presenter between Monday and Friday, this also involved  producing various travel features for the breakfast show. I also covered  programmes during the day and was the Invicta reporter for the Seoul  olympics ... the nearest I got to them was taking the medalists names from Teletext ... but I did get an extra £25 a week during the event.

 

The line up at Invicta was a bit like Caroline on land. I joined  johnny Lewis, Peter Phillips and Mark Matthews who had all been on the ship.  We would often meet

up in the evening, with the home of  a sales guy in Ash in Kent as the starting point  for a tour of local pubs ... with me on soft drinks before starting work at 2am every morning. The house in Ash was also where I lodged during the week. I had use of a mattress on the floor during the day - I was promised a bed, but it never materialised. We also had a cooker with no door, I remember Christmas Day 1988 when 'the radio lads' planned to eat  the Christmas dinner that we were attempting to cook. By 8.00pm the turkey was still raw so we went and got a takeaway Chinese