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Back in 2006, Connie Fisher won the BBC show 'How do you solve a problem like Maria'. Here in this edition of Music was my first love, the talented actress, singer and TV presenter chats to Andrew Woolfe about her life, career and her 10 songs. Originally broadcast on Hospital Radio Glamorgan on Wednesday 28th February 2024 1 Natural Woman – Carole King 2 Secret Love – Doris Day 3 Jump Around – House Of Pain 4 Slipping Through My Fingers – ABBA 5 This Is My Time – Gary Barlow 6 Spice Your Life – Spice Girls 7 Good Thing Going – Vanessa Williams 8 Gravity – Sarah Barellies 9 Dynamite – Sigrid 10 This Is My Life – Shirley Bassey

Next up on the final Music was my first love of this series, actress, singer and TV presenter Connie Fisher chats to Andrew Woolfe about her life and career and her 10 favourite songs! Hear the full show on Wednesday 28th February 2023 at 10pm www.radioglamorgan.com/listen

Shaun has been everywhere when it comes to radio! From Swansea Sound to the BBC and even on Radio Caroline. More stories than song choices in this edition of 'Music was my first love' which was originally on Hospital Radio Glamorgan on Monday 26th February 2024. 1 Moonlight Feels Right – Starbuck 2 Peg – Steely Dan 3 Down In The Tube Station At Midnight – The Jam 4 Shine A Little Love – ELO 5 Do Nothing – The Specials 6 Love Is The Answer – England Dan & John Ford Coley 7 Bridge To Your Heart – Wax 8 Who's Leaving Who – Hazel Dean 9 All Together Now – The Farm 10 Music For A Sushi Restaurant – Harry Styles

Next up on Music was my first love, broadcaster Shaun Tilley chats to Andrew Woolfe Hear the full show on Monday 26th February 2023 at 10pm www.radioglamorgan.com/listen

Best known for playing "Zippy" from the ITV children's show Rainbow since the early 1970s, Ronnie Le Drew chats to Andrew Woolfe about his life, career and his 10 favourite songs! Originally broadcast on Hospital Radio Glamorgan on Friday 23rd February 2024 1 Mr Sandman – The Chordettes 2 Adagio 1st Movement – London Philharmonic Orchestra 3 Janecek Sinfoietta – Orchestra Philharmonique De Strasbourg 4 Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto – Ensemble Intercontemporain 5 Food Glorious Food – Oliver, Original Cast and Crew 6 Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty – The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 7 Petrushka's Cell 911 Version – Marlinsky Orchestra 8 The Black and White Rag- Winifred Atwell 9 The Way You Look Tonight – Fred Astair 10 What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

Next up on Music was my first love, puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew chats to Andrew Woolfe Hear the full show on Friday 23rd February 2023 at 10pm www.radioglamorgan.com/listen

Local radio presenter Phil Hoyles chats to Andrew Woolfe about his career behind the mic and his 10 song choices too on this edition of Music was my first love. Originally broadcast on Hospital Radio Glamorgan on Wednesday 21st February 2024 1 This Used To Be My Playground – Madonna 2 Heartbreaker – Dionne Warwick 3 Temptation – Wet Wet Wet 4 The Sun Always Shines On TV – A-Ha 5 Home – Michael Bublé 6 Drops of Jupiter – Train 7 Something Inside So Strong – Labi Siffre 8 The Reason - Hoobastank 9 Grande Amore – ll Volo 10 Rise Up – Andra Day

Next up on Music was my first love, broadcaster Phil Hoyles chats to Andrew Woolfe Hear the full show on Wednesday 21st February 2023 at 10pm www.radioglamorgan.com/listen

Thereza Bazar, best known as a member of the pop duo Dollar, chooses 10 of her favourite songs and explains why she's chosen them! Originally broadcast on Hospital Radio Glamorgan on Monday 19th February 2024 1 A Little Respect – Erasure 2 Only You – Yazoo 3 Islands In The Stream – Dolly Parton & Kenny Rodgers 4 If I Fell – The Beatles 5 You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon 6 How Deep Is Your Live – Bee Gees 7 The Tide Is High – Blondie 8 The Look Of love – ABC 9 Every Breath You Take – The Police 10 Oliver's Army – Elvis Costello

Next up on Music was my first love, singer (one half of duo 'Dollar') Thereza Bazar chats to Andrew Woolfe Hear the full show on Monday 19th February 2023 at 10pm www.radioglamorgan.com/listen

Radio personality Chris Moore talks about his life, career behind the mic and his 10 favourite tunes in this edition. The episode of 'Music was my first love' was originally broadcast on Hospital Radio Glamorgan on 1 Penny Lane – The Beatles 2 Jupiter (From The Planets) – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 3 From The Beginning – Emerson, Lake & Palmer 4 Alone – Stephen Simonds 5 Firth of Fifth – Genesis 6 My Sweetheart's Like Venus – The Cambridge Singers 7 Alone Again (Naturally) – Gilbert O'Sullivan 8 Proper Jack Froster – Big, Big Train 9 My, My, My – Johnny Gill 10 Porcupine Eyes – Porcupine Tree

Next up on Music was my first love, broadcaster Chris Moore chats to Andrew Woolfe Hear the full show on Friday 16th February 2023 at 10pm www.radioglamorgan.com/listen

Wayne joined Hospital Radio Glamorgan in 2023. Here he tells Andrew Woolfe why he chose to join amongst a whole host of other stories and of course the reasons behind choosing the 10 songs that feature in the full length show that originally aired on Wednesday 14th February 2024. 1 Motorcycle Emptiness – Manic Street Preachers 2 Shoot To Kill – Tigertailz 3 Wish I Could Write A Love Song – Chaz & Dave 4 October Swimmer – JJ72 5 Angel Fingers – Wizzard 6 Kids In America – Kim Wilde 7 Across The Water – Kooga 8 Yma O Hyd – Dafydd Iwan 9 Hot Cherie – Hardline 10 Little Does She know – Kursaal Flyers

Next up on Music was my first love, Hospital Radio Glamorgan volunteer Wayne Childs chats to Andrew Woolfe Hear the full show on Wednesday 14th February 2023 at 10pm www.radioglamorgan.com/listen

Best known as a former member of the progressive rock band 'Yes' across five tenures between 1971 and 2004, Rick Wakeman chooses 10 of his favourite tunes and shares with you why he's chosen them Originally broadcast on Hospital Radio Glamorgan on Monday 12th February 2024 1 Hard To Handle – The Black Crows 2 Mocking Bird – Charlie & Inez Foxx 3 SSS Single Bed – Foxx 4 Still Love You All – Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen 5 Have A Drink On Me – Lonnie Donegan 6 Rocking All Over The World – Status Quo 7 Here Comes De Judge – Pigmeat Markham 8 For You – Rick Nelson 9 Chills & Fever – Tom Jones 10 We'll meet Again Sometime – Strawbs

Next up on Music was my first love, musician and composer Rick Wakeman chats to Andrew Woolfe Hear the full show on Monday 12th February 2023 at 10pm www.radioglamorgan.com/listen

Paying tribute to Karlo King with Carlene and Daniel 1 Praise You – Fat Boy Slim 2 Caroline – Status Quo 3 You Really Got Me – The Kinks 4 Flawless – George Michael 5 You Sexy Thing – Hot Chocolate 6 Start Me Up – Rolling Stones 7 Red Alert – Basement Jaxx 8 Smile – Shanice 9 The Music Sounds Better With You – Stardust 10 Double Barrell – Dave & Ansel Collins

Next up on Music was my first love, It's part 2 of Hospital Radio Glamorgan volunteers Carlene and Daniel chatting to Andrew Woolfe, where they speak about their late dad Karlo who was part of our station for 41 years! Hear the full show on Friday 9th February 2023 at 10pm www.radioglamorgan.com/listen

Carlene and Daniel choose 10 of their favourite songs 1 There's No Business Like Show Business – From Annie Get Your Gun 2 Bad – Michael Jackson 3 Makeba – Jain 4 I'll Be Missing You – Puff Daddy 5 Sweet Dreams – Eurythmics 6 Children – Robert Miles 7 The Masterplan – Oasis 8 Is This Love – Whitesnake 9 Magic – Craig David 10 All The Small Things – Blink 182

Next up on Music was my first love, Hospital Radio Glamorgan volunteers Carlene and Daniel chat to Andrew Woolfe in this two part special! Hear the full show on Wednesday 7th February 2023 at 10pm www.radioglamorgan.com/listen

At 19, Colin Jackson won his first major medal, a silver, in the 110m hurdles at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. During his career he represented Great Britain and Wales, won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion twice, world indoor champion once, was undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and was twice Commonwealth champion... Hear him chat more about his achievements and his 10 song choices in this edition of 'Music was my first love' which was originally broadcast on Hospital Radio Glamorgan on Monday 5th February 2024 1 Your Love Is King – Sade 2 Orinoco Flow – Enya 3 Kiss From A Rose – Seal 4 Sway – Michael Bublé 5 Golden – Jill Scott 6 The Mystery of Man – Sarah Vaughn 7 Guilty – Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb 8 Before Today – Everything But The Girl 9 I Should've Known Better – Mica Paris 10 Waterfalls – TLC

Lord Mayor of Cardiff and Cllr for Heath & Birchgrove Cllr Graham Hinchey chats to Andrew Woolfe about his life, career and his 10 favourite songs. Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Monday 8th May 2023

Gold winning Welsh athlete and media personality, Jamie Baulch chats to Andrew Woolfe about his career and his 10 favourite songs! The full show was originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Friday 7th April 2023

Neil Arthur of Blancmange chats to Andrew Woolfe in the final instalment of this series of 'Music was my first love' Hear Neil chat about his life, career and his 10 favourite songs too! Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Monday 13th February 2023

Steve Barnes is currently a senior executive producer at The Wave (Swansea) and Greatest Hits Radio (South Wales) - He's also our Chairman's boss(!) Here Steve talks about his lively career in the radio industry and the stories behind his 10 favourite songs. Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Friday 10th February 2023

We've got a BAFTA award winner on this episode of Music was my first love! Harvey Woolfe (Older brother of host Andrew) chats about his career and his 10 favourite songs. Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Wednesday 8th February 2023

Welsh Labour politician Kevin Brennan has been serving as the Member of Parliament for Cardiff West since 2001. Here on this edition of 'Music was my first love' he chats to Andrew Woolfe about his career and his 10 favourite songs. Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Monday 6th February

Jayne is one of Radio Glamorgan's newest volunteers, having joined us in 2022. Here she chats to Andrew Woolfe about why she chose to come to RG and of course tell us why she's chosen the 10 songs she's chosen! Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Friday 3rd February 2023

On this edition of 'Music was my first love', Broadcaster Steve Dewitt chats to Andrew Woolfe about his long career and his 10 favourite songs too! Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Wednesday 1st February 2023.

Virginia Baily is an award-winning author whose stories and poetry have been widely anthologized. She was born in Yorkshire but moved to Cardiff at the age of 7. Here Virginia chats to Andrew Woolfe about her career and her 10 favourite songs, on this edition of Music was my first love. Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Monday 30th January 2023

Former British track and field athlete, Mark Lewis-Francis chats to Andrew Woolfe about his career and his 10 favourite songs Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Friday 27th January 2023

Michael Steffan is a founder member of Cantabile – The London Quartet. Here he chats to Andrew Woolfe about his career and his 10 favourite songs on this edition of 'Music was my first love' Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Wednesday 25th January.

Nathan is head of operations at community radio station 'Bro Radio', the radio station that serves the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales. Hear Nathan chat to Andrew Woolfe about his career and his 10 favourite songs too on this version of 'Music was my first love' Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Monday 23rd January 2023

One of the founding members of Top of the Pops dance troupe ‘Pan's People' Dee Dee Wilde, chats to Andrew Woolfe about her life, career and her 10 favourite songs on this edition of 'Music was my first love' Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Friday 20th January 2023 https://www.radioglamorgan.com/musicwasmyfirstlove/series5/

You may know Tricia from the TV show 'Heartbeat'! Here she chats to Andrew Woolfe about her career and her 10 favourite songs! Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Wednesday 18th January 2023

Retired British surgical Oncologist and the UK's leading authority on Breast cancer, Professor Michael Baum talks to Andrew Woolfe on this edition of Music was my first love. Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Monday 16th January 2023

Radio and TV presenter Judi Spiers chats to Andrew Woolfe about her life and career alongside choosing her 10 favourite songs Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Friday 13th January 2023

One of Radio Glamorgan's newest recruits (having joined in 2022) Sam Rees chooses his 10 favourite tunes and talks about his life alongside why he chose to get involved in hospital radio Originally broadcast on Wednesday 11th January 2023 on Radio Glamorgan

Series 5 (Yes the 5th series!) of the award winning 'Music was my first love' kicked off with music icon, Tom Robinson chatting to Andrew Woolfe about his life and career alongside choosing his 10 favourite songs! Originally broadcast on Radio Glamorgan on Monday 9th January 2023

Paul Pennington is the host of 'Word on Health' which regularly broadcasts on Radio Glamorgan. In the final episode of series 4, he chats to Andrew Woolfe about his life, career and his 10 favourite songs too. For more about 'Music was my first love' go to www.radioglamorgan.com/musicwasmyfirstlove Paul's 10 choices were as follows; 1 Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher & Higher - Jackie Wilson 2 White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane 3 Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division 4 Baker Street – Jerry Rafferty 5 Only You – Yazoo 6 Wild Things Run Fast – Joni Mitchell 7 Tug Of War – Paul McCartney 8 Ordinary World – Duran, Duran 9 Sweet Child Of Mine – Guns n Roses 10 Time To Say Goodbye – Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli

This edition of Music was my first love needs no introduction! The man himself, chats to Andrew Woolfe ahead of his busiest night of the year...

Radio presenter Dave Brookes (Who was once a volunteer at Radio Glamorgan a while back!) chats to Andrew Woolfe about his life, career and his 10 song choices too. For more about the award winning 'Music was my first love' go to www.radioglamorgan.com/musicwasmyfirstlove Dave's 10 song choices were as follows 1 Things Can Only Get Better – D:Ream 2 Get Back – The Beatles 3 On The Wings Of Love – Jeffrey Osborne 4 Motor Town – The Kane Gang 5 Here I Go Again – Whitesnake 6 Summer Nights – John Travolta & Olivia Newton John 7 Dance Monkey – Tones & I 8 Walls Come Tumbling Down – Style Council 9 The Good Life – Tony Bennett 10 Walking On The Chinese Wall – Philip Bailey

Welsh TV and Radio personality Richard Rees chats to Andrew Woolfe about his life, career and his 10 favourite songs. For more about the award-winning 'Music was my first love' go to www.radioglamorgan.com/musicwasmyfirstlove Richard's 10 songs 1 Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen 2 Venus and Mars – Paul McCartney & Wings 3 Ysbryd y Nos – Edward H Dafis 4 Without You – Neilson 5 Clash of the Ash - Runrig 6 Estyn Dy Law – Elin ac Eleri 7 Home – Michael Buble 8 Dim Ffiniau – Mei Gwynedd 9 In This Together – Ellie Goulding 10 Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon

Wendy Keay-Bright chats to Andrew Woolfe about her job and career (She's worked on some things you may have seen on TV!) - She also chats about her family life (She's married to Simon Field who is a volunteer at Radio Glamorgan) and her 10 music choices as well. Wendy's 10 choices; 1 Take 5 – The Dave Brubeck Quartet 2 Aquarium – (from) Carnival Of The Animals 3 The Rhythm Of Life – The Orpheus Male Choir 4 Lady Grinning Soul – Anna Calvi 5 Black Angel's Death Song – The Velvet Underground 6 Beneath The Southern Cross – Patti Smith 7 We Become 1 – Faithless 8 She's Lost Control - Joy Division 9 Kiss The Girl – (from) The Little Mermaid 10 Right Here, Right Now – Pete Tong

Helena is part of the Patient Experience Team that work tirelessly within the hospitals based within the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board area. Hear Helena chat to Andrew about what she does, what the team does and her 10 favourite songs too! For more about 'Music was my first love' head to www.radioglamorgan.com Helena's 10 song choices are; 1 Reach – S Club 7 2 Dancing On My Own - Robyn 3 You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon 4 Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield 5 May Morning - Runrig 6 Are You Ready For Love – Elton John 7 I'll Be There For You – The Rembrandts 8 Keep On Movin' – Five 9 You Gotta Be – Des'ree 10 Black and Blue – Paloma Faith

John Chown is the treasurer for the charity 'Daring to Dream' who have recently partnered up with Radio Glamorgan to help promote the work they do across the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. Hear John chat to Andrew Woolfe about what the charity does and his 10 favourite songs too. For more about 'Music was my first love' go to www.radioglamorgan.com John's 10 songs; 1 Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder 2 Dear Diary – Moody Blues 3 Calon Lan – Only Boys Allowed 4 Save The Children – Marvin Gaye 5 A Short Ride In A Fast Machine – John Adams 6 Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes – Paul Simon 7 Motsavele Mang (The Forest Brother Game) – Mari Kalkun 8 Lean On Me – Bill Withers 9 The Wedding – Abdullah Ibrahim 10 Something To Live For – Jack Bruce

Singer and actor Peter Straker chats to Andrew Woolfe on this edition of the award winning 'Music was my first love'. For more about the series, go to www.radioglamorgan.com/musicwasmyfirstlove Peter's choices; 1 Starting Over – John Lennon 2 J' Arrive – Jacques Brel 3 Precious Lord – Aretha Franklin 4 John Newman – Love Me Again 5 Queen – Love of My Life 6 Many Rivers To Cross – Jimmy Cliff 7 Someone You Loved – Lewis Capaldi 8 The Acid Queen – The Who 9 State Of Independence – Donna Summer 10 Vissi d'Arte from Puccini's Tosca – Maria Callas

Alexandra Lynn, known professionally as 'Alex the Astronaut', is a folk-pop singer-songwriter from Australia. Her debut album 'The Theory of Absolutely Nothing' was released in August 2020. Here in 2021, she chats to Andrew Woolfe on this latest edition of Music was my first love about her life and her favourite songs. For more about the award-winning series; www.radioglamorgan.com/musicwasmyfirstlove Alex's 10 song choices are as follows; 1 They Thought I Was Asleep – Paul Kelly 2 Remember The Days – Cat Stevens 3 Ballad Of A Thin Man – Bob Dylan 4 LDN – Lilly Allen 5 Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie 6 Strange Fruit – Billy Holiday 7 Ronan – Taylor Swift 8 Super Rich Kids – Frank Ocean 9 A Boy Named Sue – Johnny Cash 10 Atlantic City – Bruce Springsteen

Simon has worked at the BBC on Children's BBC, Top of the Pops and The O Zone and at ITV on GMTV, Granada, HTV West, Westcountry and Meridian. He spent some time at Real Radio Wales, BBC Radio Wales too and at the moment, presents a daily show on BBC Somerset. Hear him chat to Andrew Woolfe about his life and career and the reasons behind his 10 favourite songs! For more about 'Music was my first love', head to www.radioglamorgan.com/musicwasmyfirstlove Here's Simon's 10 songs; 1 Better The Devil You Know – Kylie Minogue 2 This One – Paul McCartney 3 Bring Me Sunshine – Willie Nelson 4 Thinking Of You – Sister Sledge 5 Brimful Of Asha – Corner Shop 6 When You Are Old – Gretchen Peters 7 Any Road – George Harrison 8 Something's Jumping In Your Shirt – Malcolm McLaren 9 Getting Away With It – Electronic 10 Are You ready For Love – Elton John

Former international footballer and senior sports administrator, Professor Laura McAllister joins Andrew Woolfe on this edition of Music was my first love. Hear Laura chat about her career, her family life and the stories behind her 10 songs she's chosen. For more about the award winning 'Music was my first love', go to www.radioglamorgan.com Laura's 10 songs; 1 Ffydd, Gobaith, Cariad – Fflur Dafydd 2 Sunshine On Leith – The Proclaimers 3 Rhedeg I Paris – Candelas 4 I Will Always Love You – Dolly Parton 5 Bugeilo'r Gwenith Gwyn – Bryn Terfel 6 Firework – Katy Perry 7 Kingston Town – UB40 8 There's A Hole In My Bucket – Harry Belafonte 9 Zombie Nation – Kernkraft 400 10 Hei Mistar Urdd – Mei Gwynedd

Terry Underhill is currently the breakfast show presenter on Greatest Hits Radio South Wales. Hear him chat to Andrew Woolfe about working behind the mic, behind the scenes at some of the most successful radio stations across the UK too and talking about some celebrity encounters as well! Music was my first love is exclusive to Radio Glamorgan, more here >>> www.radioglamorgan.com/musicwasmyfirstlove The full track listing for this show is as follows; 1 Reminiscing – Little River Band 2 Looking For The Right One – Stephen Bishop 3 Lately – Jason Stevie Wonder 4 The Man With The Child In His Eyes – Kate Bush 5 California Dreamin' – Mama's & Papa's 6 Nothing Rhymed – Gilbert O'Sullivan 7 What A Fool Believes – Doobie Brothers 8 Bright Eyes – Art Garfunkel 9 A House Is Not A Home – Luther Vandross 10 I Can't Make You Love Me – George Michael