Broadcaster and DJ who was the first woman to have her own weekday show on Radio 1 and be a regular host of Top of the PopsThe DJ Janice Long, who has died aged 66 following a short illness, became a pioneer in broadcasting as the first woman to have her own weekday show on
BBC Radio 1 and the first to become a regular presenter of Top of the Pops.
Unlike some of the prominent DJs with whom she shared the airwaves during the first part of her career in the 1980s, Long was a genuine
music fan, credited with giving a helping hand to a number of artists whom she had championed, including Frankie Goes to
Hollywood, Primal Scream, Manic Street Preachers, the Teardrop Explodes, Amy Winehouse and the Coral.