Owen Larkin

As Downtown Radio celebrate five decades of broadcasting across Northern Ireland, in this weeks episode of Radio Greats - it is the turn of Owen Larkin, who has spent four decades working across stations in both Northern and the Republic of Ireland. From a career on Pirate stations, Local and National Radio, from Stations including Century Radio, LMFM, Citybeat and Classic Hits 4FM.

In this weeks episode, Owen sits down with Luke to share stories of his four decade career, from working on the pirates. Stories include working on stations that include North East Radio, Kiss FM and ERI Cork. Working with some big names, describing studios and falling asleep on air. How he joined Ireland's first National Station Century Radio and worked with some of the biggest names in Broadcasting, leaving to join LMFM before finding work on CityBeat in Belfast and being part of the launch team of Classic Hits 4FM. To finally ending up on Downtown Radio - just in time for the stations 50th Birthday.

Why not listen to Owen on Downtown Radio every weekday between 1 and 4PM.

Also check out some brilliant archives of Owen on the Archives of The Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive.

Listen also to some archives of Owen presenting shows for KISS FM.

And watch Owen chat to Shane Filan and Louis Walsh on Citybeat here on Youtube.

And listen to Owen present Early Breakfast on Century Radio from September 1989 on Aircheck Downloads.