Paul Baskerville

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Paul Baskerville
Born (1961-03-03) 3 March 1961 (age 64)
Manchester, England
NationalityEnglish
OccupationRadio DJ
Children1

Paul Baskerville (born 3 March 1961) is an English radio disc jockey (DJ) on the German radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR).

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Life

Baskerville was born and grew up in Manchester. [1] As a teenager, he joined the punk band The Limit.[ citation needed ] He moved to Germany in 1980. [2] Initially, he worked for Karstadt. [1] He started working for NDR in 1981 with features about music from England and especially Manchester. In 1982, he got his first weekly show, Musik für junge Leute [3] [2] which he moderated every Thursday from 13:20 to 14:30. [3] He also moderated the shows "No Wave", [4] [3] [2] "Kopfhörer", [3] [2] and "Offbeat". [3] [2] Over the years, he got different slots. He also did shows for Radio Bremen, Deutschlandfunk, DT64, and reportages for Arte. He also wrote a music column for the weekly paper Freitag ("Friday"). Currently, he broadcasts the show Nachtclub [3] ("nightclub") which ran from 2003 to 2020 on NDR Info on Saturdays from 0:05 to 2:00 and moved in 2021 to NDR Blue on Thursdays at 21:00. One of the most important record stores for his program Musik für junge Leute was the now defunct unterm durchschnitt  [ de ] based in Hamburg. [1]

Baskerville is married and has a daughter named Emely. [1] He lives in Hamburg.[ citation needed ]

In 2019, Baskerville was one of many people who were contacted during the search for "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet", which was recorded from the radio in the early 1980s in Northern Germany and eventually identified in November 2024. [5] [6] [7] [8] He suspected that the song was a demo recording that was played once by an NDR presenter and then thrown away. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 NDR Hamburg Journal from 22 December 2012: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTRVxY9uXI
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Paul Baskerville". www.ndr.de (in German). 25 May 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "It's History – Paul's frühere Sendungen beim NDR | Nachtclub mit Paul Baskerville" (in German). Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  4. ↑ Gödecke, Christian (11 January 2011). "Radiomoderator Paul Baskerville - DER SPIEGEL - Geschichte". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  5. ↑ Knörer, Ekkehard (27 September 2019). "Wer kennt diesen Song?". www.zeit.de. Archived from the original on 30 March 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  6. ↑ "80er-Song lässt User verzweifeln: "Most mysterious song on the internet"? Spuren nach Deutschland". www.rotenburger-rundschau.de (in German). 4 June 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  7. ↑ Ulrich, Viola (11 September 2019). "Mysteriöser Song: Wer kennt dieses Lied aus den 80er-Jahren?". DIE WELT. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Hamburg Journal: Der geheimnisvolle Song aus dem NDR Archiv | ARD Mediathek". www.ardmediathek.de (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2020.


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