Editing Johnny Beerling (section)

===BBC===
In 1957, he joined the [[BBC]] as a Technical Operator and soon became a Studio Manager. In the early sixties he was appointed as a producer in the Gramophone Department where he worked on a number of popular programmes such as ''[[Housewives' Choice]]'', ''Midday Spin'', and ''[[Two-Way Family Favourites|Two Way Family Favourites]]'' as well as late evening shows like ''Music to Midnight''. Beerling brought in [[Simon Dee]] from the pirate radio scene and he was also the first producer of [[Terry Wogan]]. As an admirer of the pirate radio stations he devised a fast moving new radio show on Saturdays called ''Where It's At'', one of [[Kenny Everett]]'s earliest shows. Beerling was one of the few employees of the [[BBC Light Programme]] in the mid-1960s to regard the model of offshore [[pirate radio]] as one which the BBC would have to follow and to that end he managed to take a trip to visit Radio London to see for himself how they operated.<ref>Garfield, Simon. ''[https://www.simongarfield.com/books/the-nations-favourite/ The Nation's Favourite]'' (1998)</ref>