GRANT (JAMES) WAGLAN
Has always been a music lover, even in his pre-teens when friends were into cars , football , scouts , travel ,and so on , he was the one who liked music although never got round to playing an instrument . Grant has always enjoyed a wide range of music, and attended a Broadcast College in Toronto in the late 1960's, where he obtained valuable experience in production work before returning to the UK. After a period working for the Hi-Fi Industry he joined Radio Mercury in Crawley, Sussex, in the mid-1980s. His first job in radio in the UK.
Grant currently presents an hour-long programme of BIG BAND MUSIC on BBC Radio -- SOLENT, BERKSHIRE, OXFORD, KENT, & SOUTHERN COUNTIES RADIO which he has done for the past five years and is currently Chairman of The West Surrey Big Bands Society. He also  produces an easy listening society "Sounds Wonderful", originally dedicated to the music of Vic Damone, which he runs at a venue in Epsom, Surrey, UK., each month.

JOHN CHARMAN 
John joined Radio Wey on 17th May 1972. He presents  the Magic of the Big Bands show every Sunday. John retired after a fascinating career, including 20 years as a pilot instructor in The RAF. He now spends time indulging his passion to Big Band and British Dance Bands. He is a committee member for the International Glenn Miller Society and is Vice Chairman and Programme Controller for The West Surrey Big Bands Society, which has developed a reputation as the best in the UK and he has presented programes all over the country. John has been a keen railway modeller since hie RAF days and lists his memorable Radio Wey moment as the special broadcast he made with the legendary broadcaster Alan Dell in 1989.

MALCOLM LAYCOCK
Malcolm is a familiar voice on Radio 2, having presented the series As Time Goes By, the documentary programmes on Ted Heath, Joe Loss and Gilbert Becaud, and the series Traditionally British. He has produced many programmes for Radio 2 including Voices and Back Numbers, and documentaries on Nat King Cole, Josh White and Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. Malcolm is internationally known for his broadcasts for BBC World Service including six years presenting the weekly Jazz For The Asking programme, and for his many series of Kings Of Swing and The Big Band Singers and for the documentary Glenn Miller - The Legacy. He was involved in setting up London's Jazz FM station and subsequently became the station's Programme.Controller. He is currently Vice President of The West Surrey Big Bands Society.
 

DAVID SEAL
Becoming a radio freak in the early 1950's when it was called the wireless, David Seal began building, and repairing, radio sets and listening to "foreign" stations such as Radio Luxembourg, AFN and Voice of America, on short wave. His early years were mainly influenced by classical music (from  78s) and learning to play the violin but he soon discovered the delights of jazz, in general, and, especially, big band swing; finding the gramophone easier to play than the violin!
 Whilst music and collecting records remained a hobby (LPs & EPs had arrived), radio and television engineering became David's source of income both as technician and, for seventeen years, a lecturer and tutor at technical and art colleges, and as a technical author. Broadcasting in all its forms dominated his professional and personal life, and he also wrote articles as "Rob Zegel", supporting the off-shore "pirate" radio stations broadcasting off the English and Dutch coasts in the 1960s and '70s. These stations were fun and immensely popular but Government action to close them down resulted in public pressure to open the first commercial ILR stations in 1971/2.
In 1979, David moved to the Engineering Dept. of Thames Television at Teddington Studios until the franchise ended in 1992, installing the first digital video system in a UK broadcaster's studios amongst many other forward looking projects.
During the early '80s, he was invited to join Radio Lion at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, as one of two producer/presenters of a weekly swing programme, the other presenter being Mick White, a vice-president of the West Surrey Big Bands Society.
David later moved to Hospital Radio Basingstoke whilst working as a Principal Engineer for Sony Broadcast Systems  until he retired in 1999. By this time, David had established Little Castle Studios Ltd., a non-profit making production company set up to produce specialist music programmes for local community and hospital radio stations. David became a supporter of Wey Valley Radio, soon after it began transmissions from Alton, in the early '90s, and was later invited to take over as producer/presenter of "Swingtime the Big Bands" for Delta FM.  Change of ownership of Delta FM in 2005 focussed the station on a younger audience
and led to the axing of those evening specialist music programmes that catered for older listeners. David
presented the final "Swingtime the Big Bands" in February 2007. However, from September the same year,
the similarly formatted "County Swing" is broadcast each Sunday evening from 8.00 - 9.00 pm on Guildford's
County Sound Radio and can also be heard on-line at www.countysound.co.uk .
Amongst other voluntary occupations, he is a Committee Member of the West Surrey Big Bands Society, a Member of the Farnham Crime Prevention Panel for Surrey Police, and a Member of the Farnham Wey Vale Probus Club. Hobbies include photography, scuba diving and digitally restoring other collectors'  recordings of which  there  seems  to  be  an  infinite  supply.
 

DEREK EDWARDS, a Vice President of the West Surrey Big Bands Society, has been a regular presenter of programme recitals for the past 25 years.  His frequent business visits to North America in the 1970s & '80s enabled him to seek out - and add to his record collection -many big band rarities, and he is currently in demand for presentations to some eleven U.K. Music Societies, as well as the London based Count Basie and (previously) Glenn Miller Societies.

He became a personal friend of the late RICHARD MALTBY, and of BILLY MAY, and Derek (and his late wife) were friends of the late ALAN DELL.  In 2003, MILT BERNHART, the great U.S. trombonist, and President of the Big Band Academy of America, invited Derek to attend the Academy 15 annual meeting in Los Angeles, as his personal guest. Derek has interviewed several famous American and British big band and jazz musicians at the W.S.B.B.S., including the late MILT BERNHART & SI ZENTNER, and he has made three recorded interviews with VAN ALEXANDER & BILLY MAY.