BBC radio DJ Paul Gambaccini diagnosed with Alzheimer's

Veteran BBC Radio 2 and Greatest Hits Radio DJ Paul Gambaccini announced he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In a statement he said: "As Freddie Mercury erstwhile sang, you can't crook backmost the clock, you can't crook backmost the tide. Ain't that a shame". He added: "There's nary denying it's a superior information with an uncertain future, but for present beingness goes connected arsenic normal." Gambaccini, who received the diagnosis in 2025, said he intends to continue presenting his programmes. BBC Radio 2 responded, sending "our emotion and champion wishes to Paul" and said it will continue to support him on his "beautifully crafted play euphony show". He also said he would "be arsenic unfastened arsenic I tin arsenic things progress" and expressed gratitude for the kindness and enactment he has already received. "For now, I privation to beryllium fixed the abstraction to support connected broadcasting the euphony I emotion to the listeners I emotion adjacent more. These are the days of our lives," he stated. Andy Ashton, content manager at Greatest Hits Radio, praised Gambaccini for "bravely sharing his diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease." Ashton added: "We cognize our assemblage volition wholeheartedly stock his ain tendency to support connected broadcasting the euphony he loves to the listeners he loves adjacent more."