Career
He worked with The Premier Band, Bobby Thompson, Renato Pagliari, The Pipe-dreamers, Flintlock (musical group), The Dooleys and many others in a career spanning the 1950s to 2010
Wappat founded the First Rate (at Lloyd's) Bowlly Circle, Memory Lane Magazine, British Band-Leaders Club and The Thirties Club. He was the longest serving presenter on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Newcastle, having started in 1970, following his first broadcasting via Radio 390 on the Thames Estuary. Both his Gospel and Inspiration show and Frank Wappat Nostalgia show continued on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Newcastle British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Humberside and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio York until August 2010 when Wappat decided to retire after 40 years.
Wappat"s son Paul Wappat was a radio presenter at British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Newcastle before moving to 97.5 Smooth Radio in January 2008.
Wappat died of heart failure on 17 February 2014, his 84th birthday, at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle.
