SIMON MAYO INTERVIEW: "RADIO IS FULL OF SHY PEOPLE"

Radio DJ Simon Mayo on his miserable school days, ‘old Trot’ Mark Kermode – and why Radio 1 is ‘nasty and backstabbing.’ At 16 I was into music, the radio and Spurs. As I still am. I always loved radio. My mum was a studio manager in the 1950s and I always knew I wanted to work in radio. I remember when Radio 1 was launched and my dad said, we’ll never have that constant pop music playing in our house.