Tim Stevens

Background

Stevens was born on 4 February 1952 and was brought up in Easterhouse, a housing scheme in Glasgow.

Career

He moved from Clyde 1 to Clyde 2 at the start of 2008. At the age of 17 he started disc jockeying at The Electric Gardens nightclub in Sauchiehall Street. He was recruited to Radio Clyde in 1974 and has remained a regular broadcaster there, with a temporary stint at West Sound in the 1980s.

His first show on Radio Clyde - broadcast on Monday evenings between 8 p. m. and 10 p. m. in the mid-1970s - was entitled The Affairs Its Heid Show (Affairs Its Heid = Office Its Head in Standard English).

Stevens left Radio Clyde in May 1975 to try his hand at being a popular star (he had released a number of songs which he would play on his own show with his band called the Affairs Its Heid Band, a group of young Glasgow musicians), but he would return to the Clyde airwaves shortly afterwards. In 1987 Stevens was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, but continued to work in radio despite the steady progression of the disease.

In March 2010 a benefit night was held to raise funds for treatment for Stevens. Stevens then travelled to Katowice, Poland for a new experimental treatment of Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency.

Stevens reported initial results as promising.

In the early 1990s Stevens made the public announcements for Scottish football club Celtic during games at Parkhead. However he was sacked in September 1993 for making a joke during a European match about rivals Rangers getting beaten in the European Cup on the same night. Stevens presented The Untied Shoelaces Show, a British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland morning children"s television programme in 1982.

Stevens has a fashion modelling contract with Ben Sherman.

In 2012 Stevens portrayed the character Doctor Ferguson in an independent feature film Night is Day. In August 2015, it was announced that Stevens would be one of the voices on the forthcoming Dictionary of American Biography radio station GO! in Glasgow.

Achievements

• He was also awarded Reo Stakis Lifetime Achievement award at the Tartan Clef Awards in 2006.

Membership

In 2006 Stevens was awarded the Member of the British Empire (Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire) for his charity work and services to broadcasting in Scotland.

Connections

friends:

Radio Clyde