 Its original presenter Keith Fordyce (1928–2011), a stalwart of the BBC Light Programme and Radio Luxembourg, was joined in 1964 by Cathy McGowan and Michael Aldred.McGowan, recruited as an advisor from 600 applicants, had been in the fashion department of "Woman's Own".She is said to have secured the role in a "run off" with journalist Anne Nightingale, later a disc jockey on Radio 1, by answering "fashion" to a question from Elkan Allan (1922–2006), "RSG"'s executive producer and head of entertainment at Rediffusion, as to whether sex, music or fashion was most important to teenagers.