Oludotun Davey Moore "Dotun" AdebayoMBE (born 25 August 1959) is a British radio presenter, writer, and publisher. He is best known for his work on Up All Night on BBC Radio 5 Live, as well as the former obituary programme Brief Lives (ended July 2007).
While studying at the University of Essex, and presenting two programmes on the student radio station, in 1987 Adebayo was elected president of the University of Essex Students' Union to serve in the 1987/1988 academic year. Standing as an independent, he defeated Labour Students candidate Asad Rehman. Adebayo graduated from Essex in 1987 with a BA degree in Philosophy.[3]
Adebayo revealed during an episode of Up All Night[4] that his middle names were "Davey Moore". His parents were boxing fans and had given him these middle names because the boxer Davey Moore had boxed and beaten British-Nigerian Hogan Bassey a year earlier. He spoke about this during the show's "Virtual Jukebox" segment when the Bob Dylan song "Who Killed Davey Moore?" had been selected by a listener.
Adebayo appeared in The Oblong Box at the age of eight, and Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier's The Element of Crime. As well as claiming to have been the first black Teddy boy in London in his early teens, Adebayo also won a Rotary Club public-speaking award as a teenager, and worked for the BBC from the age of 12 on the radio programme Network Africa. Around this same time, Adebayo nearly became the latest, 'Milky Bar Kid', only narrowly missing out on the part, owing to him not needing to wear glasses.
Some of these columns were compiled into books: Can I Have My Balls Back Please (2000) and its sequel Sperm Bandits (2002), the latter a humorous look at the phenomenon of sperm theft. This led to a follow-up Channel 4 docudrama Sperm Bandits. He is working[when?] on his first novel, Promised Land, an epic saga spanning 50 years in the lives of Britain's richest black family.
In 1993, while appearing on Channel 4's The Devil's Advocate opposite presenter Darcus Howe, he was spotted by GLR programme executive Gloria Abramov, who was looking for a new presenter for the Black London programme. His broadcasting work on BBC London 94.9 gave him the opportunity to present other programmes, such as the Saturday night reggae show, and he eventually "presented everything except travel!" On his half-week of the Up All Night show on BBC Radio 5 Live, he presents both the World Football Phone-In and the Virtual Jukebox: this was a replacement for his Virtual Bookshelf.[6]
Adebayo's television work includes writing and presenting the documentary White Girls Are Easy (for Channel 4), and the weekly show Heavy TV. Radio Dotun, as he now calls himself, has just (December 2023) published his 'memoirs' Effries, which he describes as being the story of when he was arrested for murder.
Adebayo founded the publishing company X Press, with Steve Pope,[7] producing black fiction such as Baby Father, Victor Headley's Yardie (which became the first black British best-seller when it was published in 1992), and Cop Killer (which gained instant notoriety when 200 bullets were sent out to the press to promote the title). He is also responsible for the Nia imprint of literary black fiction, including titles such as J. California Cooper's In Search of Satisfaction, and the 20/20 imprint for current generic fiction such as the best-seller Curvy Lovebox. Adebayo also published the comic magazine Skank.
Adebayo is co-founder of Colourtelly, Britain's first general-interest black internet television station. To save costs, Adebayo uses his own house as the studio. When it launched on 1 August 2007, he had the aim of attracting 6000 subscribers to break even.
In September 2020, Adebayo became a co-presenter of On The Continent as part of the new Football Ramble Presents network, alongside Andy Brassell.
In October 2023 it was announced that Dotun Adebayo would launch a Sunday evening programme on BBC Local Radio, presented from London and starting on Sunday 12 November. The programme will be broadcast on all BBC Local Radio stations.[8] Dotun Adebayo using his pen-name Radio Dotun published his 'memoirs' called Effries in October 2023 which he states tells the story of how he was once arrested for murder.
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