North West Radio legend Brian Cullen celebrates his 50th year in broadcasting with a new show on Cheshire’s MIX 56.
Brian Cullen has been spinning the tunes on their airwaves across the North West for 50 years this year and has recently joined Mix 56 to bring his 60’s Wing Ding special to the airwaves every Sunday at noon.
Cullen started his radio career at Radio Merseyside before moving to Radio City and Marcher Sound.
The Wing Ding is a trip back to the 60’s with the feel of the old Radio Caroline days, complete with retro jingles and the soundtrack from the pirate radio days.
READ MORE: ‘Not a silver bullet’: Region’s branding experts on Boohoo’s ‘high-stakes’ new (old) name
Cullen said: “I’m delighted to bring the Weekend Wing Ding to a new Cheshire audience every week and we take a look back at my favourite decade of music. A lot of today’s music has been inspired by many of the old classics from the 60’s.”
Station director Paul Smith added: “We worked together at Marcher Sound back in the 90’s and when I got the call I was delighted Brian wanted to join the team. He’s an absolute pro. The show is fast paced, feel good and keeps these amazing songs alive on the radio.”
Cheshire’s MIX 56 was previously known as Lymm Radio. It rebranded in 2023 in a bid to “more accurately reflecting its soon-to-expand geographical broadcast area along the A56 and M56 corridor.”
The station came into life as a pandemic project, having been set up at the start of lockdown from a spare bedroom. It is now a full-time, not-for-profit Social Enterprise with two on air studios in Lymm.
Among the station’s other recent high-profile coups was a 2024 two-hour Pete Waterman special, which saw The Hitman drop into the studio for a show focused his career, the artists he discovered and nurtured, and how The Hit Factory kept churning out those hits. Waterman talked about his early days as a DJ, meeting Mike and Matt (Stock and Aitken, the other two thirds of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, one of the most successful songwriting and production partnerships ever) and working with the likes of Kylie, Rick Astley, Bananarama and Donner Summer.
The Weekend Wing Ding is broadcast on Cheshire’s MIX 56 every Sunday at 12noon with catch-up available for 14 days on the website.
