Dave Cash (born 18 July 1942) is British DJ and radio host who has worked for Radio London, Capital Gold, BBC Radio 1, Country 1035, PrimeTime Radio, and BBC Radio Kent.

Radio career

Cash was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, U.K. and grew up in London. He began his career in broadcasting in Canada, where he had gone with the Merchant Navy, and acquired a North American-sounding accent. He returned to the UK in the 1960s and joined Radio London at the age of 21 after meeting up with the show's programme director Ben Toney. Toney persuaded him to join the station as the afternoon DJ and writer for commercials. Once on board with Radio London, Dave teamed up with Kenny Everett for the Kenny & Cash Show, amongst the most successful of all pirate radio programmes.

After Parliament outlawed pirates, Dave joined Radio Luxembourg, then in 1967 he became one of the first-day DJs on Radio One. Cash's popular Sunday show Cash At Four attracted guest such as Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, John Cleese, Lady Antonia Fraser, Rolf Harris, and David Bellamy.

In 1973, Dave started working at Capital Radio as production manager and presenter. Dave stayed at Capital for 21 years, reprising the Kenny & Cash Show, hosting COD and the weekend programmes for Capital Gold. After the success of Dave’s best selling first novel The Rating Game, Dave left Capital in 1994 to concentrate on his writing.

Cash can now only get work with the BBC, broadcasting his not very popular weekend shows on Saturday and Sunday nights to Radio Kent, BBC Southern Counties Radio, BBC Radio Solent, and BBC Radio Essex.

Film and television

In 1970, Dave wrote and performed The Radio Programme, a twenty-six part sitcom/music show produced at HTV and sold to the ITV network, NBC, and stations across Europe. Guests included Sammy Davis Jr., Richard Harris, and Terry-Thomas. In 1976, Dave appeared as himself in the cult hit Quadrophenia and in 1979 took a cameo role alongside Dennis Hopper in The American Way. In 1988, he co-wrote and produced At Last It's Hogmanay with Billy Connolly and Robbie Coltrane for Channel 4.

Books and articles

In 1991, Dave’s first novel The Rating Game made the best-seller charts in four weeks followed in 1993 by All Night Long and King of Clubs in 1995.

As of 2006, Dave began working on his autobiography and history of pirate radio. He is also developing the first ever triography – a biography written by Dave and his two best friends detailing their road trip to Mexico.

External links

• Dave Cash's BBC Radio Kent page