john piper was the mid-morning talk show host on the bbc radio solent throughout the 1970s. the name of his program was called "piper's tune". the show was a mix of music, talk guests and the regular feature called, "give a neighbour a hand", in which listeners would call in and ask for advice and other listeners would call in and give advice. piper left the bbc in 1879 to join the two counties radio in bournemouth, as the station's first programme controller. he stayed on the air in bournemouth until he left radio to move to spain with his wife, dilys.