Ex-BBC Radio Merseyside presenter Roger Phillips is to join Liverpool-based Merseyside Dementia Friendly Radio (MDFR) when it goes live on DAB later this year.
Phillips, who left the BBC in 2022 after presenting for more than 40 years, returns to the airwaves after being “highly impressed the ambition and imagination” of station founder Nat Gavin and his team.
“Everyone knows someone who is affected by dementia via either a sufferer, a carer, a family or a professional care worker so this is a much-needed service which will bring joy and support to thousands of people and it’s wonderful that it’s yet another first for Merseyside.
“It will be great to be back on air for such a ground-breaking radio station – I can’t wait.”
Phillips will present a weekly programme having been approached by Gavin in February.
MDFR launched online in April of 2020, but…
