 While there he recruited Roger Scott and Graham Dene, with whom he later worked at Capital Radio, and gave Dale Winton and Steve Allen their radio breaks.The launch of commercial radio in 1973 led him to move to LBC and then to Capital Radio, where he stayed for eight years, presenting an evening phone-in programme, "Anna and the Doc", with agony aunt Anna Raeburn.In 1981, he returned to the BBC, presenting programmes on Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 4.