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Radio Bristol,25 mins
DJ Takeover - Count Skylarkin Presents Derek's Island Discs
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DJ Derek was one of the most unassuming & unpretentious spreaders of joy of our times. The former accountant that Toots Hibbert called "the white man who talks the peoples talk & plays the peoples music". From a flat in St Pauls to festival fields across the globe, with a battered briefcase of some of the greatest music ever made - This man brought happiness & laughter, he was loved everywhere he went. Told by Derek; mixed by his friend Count Skylarkin - using Derek's legendary collection of reggae, ska, calypso, rhythm & blues and gospel minidiscs, plus rare archive interviews with the man himself & his friends in Bristol.
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