I WAS delighted to see that as part of BBC Radio 2's 40th birthday celebrations, the name of DJ Paul Hollingdale was featured (7Days, Sept 26).
In 1967 Hollingdale presented a popular breakfast programme and was in at the start of Radio 2.
The programme mainly consisted of pop records but, from time to time, a piece of light classical music would be included.
On one occasion an extract from the ballet Copelia was played and when it finished, with a nod to Alf Garnett in the Till Death Do Us Part which was showing on TV at the time, Hollingdale credited the composer with the words: "And that, ladies and gentlemen, was yer actual Delibes."
Paul Hollingdale left Radio 2 in 1970, so it was good to see him return for this show.
LD Wilson, Guisborough
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