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Some help needed. Former RTE Radio 1 DJ Name Needed

  • 28-03-2020 12:07am
    #1
    MOR316
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    Looking for the name of a female radio DJ, who used to present Late Date on RTE Radio 1 back between 2002 and 2005?

    Can't remember her name but, used to have old episodes taped when she presented it. Her playlist was divine and her voice was like velvet on my ears. Serious case of ASMR!

    Looking to track down any shows she done before or since


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  • #2
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,606 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Lillian Smith? Still on Radio 1 Rising Time weekends


  • #3
    MOR316
    Registered Users Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭MOR316


    ford fiesta wrote: »
    Lillian Smith? Still on Radio 1 Rising Time weekends

    I asked John Creedon and he said it was Lillian Smith too but, I really don't think so. Her voice is different.

    This presenter's voice was like silk and velvet's love child. There were two female presenters at the time from what I recall


  • #4
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,481 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    I might be thinking of a different station but the name viviene or valerie comes to mind


  • #5
    MOR316
    Registered Users Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭MOR316


    Gremlinertia wrote: »
    I might be thinking of a different station but the name viviene or valerie comes to mind

    Could have been.

    I do know this presenter loved Peggy Lee


  • #6
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,481 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Almost positive galway bay did something like that back then


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  • #7
    Losty Dublin
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    Gremlinertia wrote: »
    I might be thinking of a different station but the name viviene or valerie comes to mind

    There was a girl on East Coast some years ago called Vicky Enright who fits the bill voice wise. I don't remember her being on RTÉ though.


  • #8
    MOR316
    Registered Users Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭MOR316


    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    There was a girl on East Coast some years ago called Vicky Enright who fits the bill voice wise. I don't remember her being on RTÉ though.

    Nah, defo wasn't her

    I'd know the name as soon as I saw it


  • #9
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,606 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    There has only been 2 regular female presenters of Late Date on Radio 1..Maxi and Lillian Smith


  • #10
    Joe_ Public
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    Its absolutely Lillian Smith if we're talking about LD in the early noughties. She took the role from Maxi when the latter moved to the mornings. Though may have been a brief interlude where someone else filled in for maxi, but cant quite recall who. Always thought both maxi and lillian have great voices for nightime radio.


  • #11
    MOR316
    Registered Users Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭MOR316


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Its absolutely Lillian Smith if we're talking about LD in the early noughties. She took the role from Maxi when the latter moved to the mornings. Though may have been a brief interlude where someone else filled in for maxi, but cant quite recall who. Always thought both maxi and lillian have great voices for nightime radio.


    How come Lillian sounds different now?

    (I know, voice changes as you get older etc)


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  • #12
    Itssoeasy
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    Like others have said it's Lilian smith as my late grandfather loved to listen to the show.


  • #13
    Joe_ Public
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    MOR316 wrote: »
    How come Lillian sounds different now?

    (I know, voice changes as you get older etc)

    Does she or is it just how you're remembering? Unless you're thinking of another show or confusing her with the other Late Date presenter at the time, the great Val Joyce. I assume its not the latter anyway!


  • #14
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,606 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Lillian plays a lot of Peggy Lee type songs also. So it probably is her. I agree she does sound different now.


  • #15
    MOR316
    Registered Users Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭MOR316


    ford fiesta wrote: »
    Lillian plays a lot of Peggy Lee type songs also. So it probably is her. I agree she does sound different now.

    Yep. 100% different now.

    Back then, her voice gave me literal chills and goosebumps. I tuned in just to hear her voice alone. No joke

    Thanks everyone for the help :)


  • #16
    MOR316
    Registered Users Posts: 2,230 ✭✭✭MOR316


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Does she or is it just how you're remembering? Unless you're thinking of another show or confusing her with the other Late Date presenter at the time, the great Val Joyce. I assume its not the latter anyway!

    Nah, she differently sounds different now.
    Not Val Joyce.


  • #17
    Master Anorak
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭Master Anorak


    Probably Trish Taylor, she was the usual fill-in for Val And Lilian during those years.



  • #18
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119565376#Comment_119565376

    As in Trish Taylor Thompson from Lyric FM?



  • #19
    Master Anorak
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭Master Anorak


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119571618#Comment_119571618

    Yep, didn't yet have the Thompson in her name back then tho



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