Radio presenter Johnnie Walker has been described as a "broadcasting legend" following his death aged 79. The DJ died on Tuesday, two months after calling time on his 58-year radio career because of ill health.

Johnnie Walker, one of the BBC’s longest-serving radio DJs, has died. Walker died earlier today at 79 following a long battle with lung disease, two months after calling time on his radio career. Tributes flooded in from BBC top brass.

Johnnie Walker, who has died aged 79, was a rebellious, scandal-prone but immensely popular radio disc jockey for more than half a century, making his name in the 1960s on Radio Caroline, the pirate radio station which broadcast from a ship off the Essex coast,