[TWIAR] Caller dies live on radio

[Williams, Gregory S.]

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Caller dies live on radio
>From correspondents in London
January 06, 2006

A CALLER to a British radio phone-in show died while on air, the program's
host said today as he described his shock.

The regular caller, known only as Terry, had telephoned in to a late-night
debate yesterday on Liverpool's Magic FM 1548 station in northwest England
when the line suddenly went silent.

Disc jockey Pete Price was so worried he abandoned his show and sped to the
man's house - but it was already too late.

"I knew something was wrong when the line went silent, I just had a gut
instinct," he said. "It was awful, when I got there the ambulance was
already outside his house.

"Apparently he was found in his chair with the phone by his side. I was
flabbergasted." 

A neighbour, also listening to Price's show, had broken into Terry's house
and found him dead. It is thought the man had suffered a heart attack.

Gregory S. Williams
williamsgs at saic.com