Larry Bass

Thanks, Ciara.

Starting on radio.

I started when I was 13 in pirate radio and a career that went into doing sound and then eventually decided to go to college as a mature student and study film and broadcasting and set up Shin and Will soon after that.

Confident, outgoing, probably not in primary school, certainly secondary school at all.

I think things changed.

A lot of things changed in my life around that time.

I was presenting.

I was Paul Goddard.

Back in the day, as we all had our different names, my brother was Rick Davenport.

Because I was a West Ham fan, picked up the newspaper to just sign Paul Goddard and I needed a name because I was rushed on air.

As you do.

Well, we were on air actually in a radio station in what was then the Victor Hotels and then the Rochestown Lodge Hotel, which was across the road from where I lived.

And that was pre the school having like an internal mini radio thing.

But it was very much it wasn't on air.

It was an internal school thing.

But we had a very creative school, creative outlets.

I was more creative driven than I certainly was academically driven.

I was certainly challenged when it come to linguistics and language.

Even my English wasn't great.

So I was OK on maths and tech drawn and things like that.