The Birth of Keep Being You! What seems like a lifetime ago, but was in reality only in early 2023, I was talked into going to a planning meeting for International Women's Day at our local community radio station, BCB radio 106.6fm (Bradford Community Broadcasting) . My reticence was due to a feeling that I didn't know enough about anything to present a show, choose music or operate a radio studio. I thought I'd offer to staff the reception desk for the day. I could do that! Everyone else in the meeting was already involved in making radio shows & were full of exciting ideas. I could feel panic rising within me but they were encouraging me to have a go & I agreed to think about it. I suggested to my friend Reyhana that we might do a show together, hoping that she'd knock the idea on the head but instead she said "Oh yeah! I've always wanted to be a DJ, I even have a DJ name ready!" and thus our first show came into being. It was just going to be a one-off and was so for some time...
