James Whale: la personalità radio e televisiva muore all’età di 74 anni
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RIP James Whale.
I spent many an evening on the motorway listening to this guy when I was younger.
Used to listen to his Radio Aire late night talk show back in the 80s and 90s. He was always a bit strange but entertaining none the less.
Been listening to the Whale since the 80’s.Sleep tight James.
Thoughts with [DeathList](https://deathlist.net/lists/2025) who dropped him for this year because they thought he was taking the piss when he kept saying he’d be dead in six month and then would be still alive six months later
I liked to listen to his late show on talksport when I was a teenager. Didn’t agree with his politics even then but he was a good shock jock
When I was a kid I used to secretly stay up late listening to him on my headphones when he had a show on talkRADIO. He used to interview some characters like Derek Acorah, David Icke, and Nick Pope.
I’m glad I didn’t absorb his right wing views though. He could be pretty nasty, but extremely entertaining. RIP.
I’ll never forget your Steven Seagal interview all those years ago. RIP James Whale.
Sad news. I used to listen to him a lot on TalkRadio in the late 90s/early 00s. He was always a bit of an arse, but very entertaining, and made for good radio.
Looking at his wikipedia, he launched a kidney cancer (which eventually killed him) charity in 2006 that was originally called the James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer, then renamed to [Kidney Cancer UK](https://www.kcuk.org.uk/) in 2016.
Edit: There an article published yesterday in his name that might be worth a read: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2090028/last-weeks-life-revelation-james-whale
RIP James Whale.
It’s nice to see there are still public figures dying that I’ve never heard of, means I’m not as old as I think yet
Amazing man. Introduced me to “real” radio. No music, just talk. He and Mike Dickin, Tommy Boyd and others were influential in my late teens as I listened to TalkSport at midnight.
I’m glad that finally the talk radio format has grown. I hated music radio, someone else’s playlist full of stuff that I literally hated. It was a very quiet time growing up as most radio stations were terrible after the early 90’s. As a 90’s kid I was strangely obsessed with the music of the 80’s except from some certain artists who actually did release decent music in the 90’s, Roxette, Genesis, Bryan Adams etc.
But I loved radio as a technology, still do. Hate streaming, it’s not radio unless it’s broadcast to me anonymously while I camp in a field where no mobile signal dare go.
Back in the 90’s I was conflicted, loving radio but annoyingly starved of content. My local BBC radio station was talking only, luckily and the night was ruled by the crazy opinions and crazy caller’s on James’s show with his humourous arguments with Ash. His jingles even opened my ears to music that was something I’d never allow to enter my ears back then such as Curtis Mayfield’s Junkie Chase and Dale Jacobs’ Cobra.
What a legend. You started the night time phone in format when I was but a toddler, and it’s grown. Thanks for filling the airwaves with fun, laughter, interesting interviews, agreeable and disagreeable positions. You and others emulating you gave someone as odd and unfashionable as me something to listen to.
I remember him on TalkSport circa 2005/2006 giving airtime to Alex Jones and David Ike. Scared the shit out of me, I’m glad I was only down that rabbit hole for a few months before I got out
I remember enjoying his Nightowls programme on Metro Radio in the late 1970s, and was surprised to discover 40 years later to discover he’d morphed into a malevolent right winger, willing to espouse the nastiest views possible for exposure / notoriety.
I’m sure his family are devastated, and I wish them well. I won’t miss him being on our airwaves
Posted a link to this article in my other comment, but thought it’s worth posting here in full.
[James Whale posted an article in the Express yesterday about his end of life care:](https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2090028/last-weeks-life-revelation-james-whale)
> The last weeks of my life have been a revelation – I’m more sure than ever about 1 thing
> I’m utterly certain that there’s one thing we need to do more.
> By James Whale
> 18:00, Sun, Aug 3, 2025
> We need to talk more about death. I’m in the last weeks of my life and it’s been a revelation. I don’t mean the feelings of sickness caused by my stage four kidney cancer and the powerful drugs I’m forced to take, or the sadness about leaving behind my family and friends. Those are both on my mind much of the time. But what’s surprised me most is how much better in myself I feel since finally moving into a hospice near my home in Kent a week or so back.
> I began to feel better immediately. More positive. I feel at peace here, even though I’m not a religious person. I know that I’ve reached the end of my life, but I’m quite sanguine about it. Despite everything, I’m happy to go now and a lot of that is due to the people who work here, because they make dying as peaceful and pain-free as possible.
> The team looking after me are among the most entertaining people I’ve ever met. Every afternoon they bring round cocktails or mocktails for patients, themed around an event. Last week, for instance, it was women’s football related. Nothing is too much trouble. And my wife Nadine was even able to bring our dogs in to see me!
> I’ve never taken life too seriously, and I’m not taking death too seriously either. It’s so different here, the atmosphere is so special compared to a hospital.
> As a society, we just don’t deal properly with death, we simply don’t talk about it enough. Yet it’s the one thing we can’t do anything about – like taxes, or so the old, old joke goes.
> It’s taken some of my friends a while to understand what a hospice is – people are a bit scared of the idea, I suspect – but my being here has helped them.
> If people can’t talk freely about death, they can’t decide while there’s still time about where they want to end up and what will happen when they become old or ill and that’s incredibly important. And it might well be a hospice.
> The Heart of Kent Hospice services cost £7.4million to run last year – a staggering 80% of which had to be fundraised. That’s everything from bequests in wills to cake sales to sponsored marathons. It’s an incredible challenge. And they need £12million more to build a new hospice. That’s a ton more fundraising and a lot of cake sales. In their catchment area by 2040, it’s estimated there will be more deaths than births. Think about that. And help if you can.
> I have told Nadine, I won’t go back to the hospital. I want to die somewhere peaceful and tranquil and this is the place for me. There’s no better. I’m lucky to be here.
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Added by me:
If you want to donate to his charity for kidney cancer: https://www.kcuk.org.uk/ ([it was renamed from the James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer to Kidney Cancer UK in 2016](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whale_Fund_for_Kidney_Cancer))
I’ll just leave this here…..
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1JE6dbqBAa/
So it finally happened…there was an article every other fuking day about him dieing crazy..rip James
Legend of post-pub entertainment. Used to call up his radio show heavily stoned and try not to get cut off in the middle of a surreal story. Made it to air a few times. The highlight of his TV show was a drunken Wayne Hussey throwing a shoe at him and getting kicked out. Also introduced the world to Charlie Chuck, for better or worse.