PETER WALTHAM is one of Perth's most enduring and respected broadcasters with more than 40 years' experience in radio and television.
     His career began at 6IX as a teenager in 1960 and he joined Channel Seven in 1964, where he spent the next 23 years before resigning to move to Channel Nine when Alan Bond purchased the Nine Network. During the time at Channel Seven Peter hosted Telethons, was the news anchorperson, hosted a weekend sports program and covered a number of other major events including the Olympic Games. The games in Moscow in 1980 was the highlight of his television career; other prominent news items included the moon landing in 1969, the removal of the Berlin Wall and the Gulf War.
     Peter left television in 1992 to join his friend, Robert Trent Jones Junior, one of the world's leading golf course architects, as part of his South East Asian operation.
     In 1999 Peter was asked to join Curtin 927, initially to host Solid Gold Sunday and later to host the Memory Lane morning program, which he enjoys immensely; in fact he enjoys this more than anything in his career. He is delighted to be playing all the great songs and reliving memories of years gone by and enjoys his ongoing rapport with the radio audience.
     Peter says the station communicates with its listeners, rather than being just a jukebox churning out song after song. It is this communication which he believes makes the station both unique and successful.
     An avid collector of books and records, his hobbies these days are history, sport and music.