Anthea Turner Brookes as part of his rap crew. The couple became romantically involved and employed Peter Powell as an agent through his management company. Turner moved into television through Sky Channel and Music Box presenting live music programmes from July 1986 to 1989. Her debut on national television was with the BBC on "But First This", which led to her fronting two series for the BBC on the Saturday morning show "UP2U". During a motorbike stunt that went wrong on UP2U, Turner suffered burns and temporary hearing loss, which led to a successful lawsuit against the BBC. She presented "Top of
Tim Smith (DJ) BBC Radio 1, where he remained until March 1990, when he was succeeded by Gary King. He occasionally filled in on the weekday early show during 1991. He also presented the 29 June 1989 episode of "Top of the Pops" alongside Anthea Turner. From then on, he went on to present the weekday afternoon show on BBC GLR, "The GLR Picture Show" & also presented a phone in pop quiz on the old BBC Radio 5, entitled "Popcall", which he did for three years. He also presented the UK Top 20 Chart Show on the BBC World Service for nearly