Every night as a youngster growing up in the 1980s I listened to AFN Europe, the US armed forces radio and television network that broadcasts to Germany. Reception in the UK was, and continues to be, patchy at best.
My main reason for listening to AFN was for the sports that they used to broadcast every night. This was in the days before Channel 4 started showing the NFL and well before Sky came on the scene. However, they also used to have a half-hour short story show, a weekly countdown of the US Music Charts with Casey Kasem and the King Biscuit Flower Hour.
However, my favourite show; The Rest of the Story, which retold little-known true anecdotes about famous people or historic incidents, always with a little twist at the end, was presented by legendary US radio presenter, Paul Harvey, who died Saturday at the age of 90; after 75 years on the radio. I never realised how old and famous Harvey was at the time, and I haven't listened to AFN for well over a decade now. Hearing that Paul Harvey has died leaves me feeling nostalgic and a little bit sad. A little bit of my childhood has died.
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