He was among the best-loved of all DJs, adored by an audience of millions who felt brutally betrayed when the BBC sacked him from his afternoon show in 2022 and utterly bereft when, just two years later, he died suddenly at the age of 69.
But perhaps no one was harder hit by the death of Steve Wright than his friend and colleague of almost 40 years, Anthony James Rutt – known professionally as AJ – who, when barely out of school and working on local radio, had sent the ebullient Wright a short piece of music.
To his disbelief, Wright telephoned
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