Born and educated in Australia, Freeman came to Britain in 1957, determined from the start to introduce a fresher, more upbeat style to British radio presentation, akin to that on North American pop radio and also on the Australian stations he had worked for. It is entirely probable that Peel heard some of Freeman's late 1950s shows on Radio Luxembourg, and he may have seen Freeman when he appeared on Juke Box Jury in the summer of 1959 (famously proclaiming that Cliff Richard's "Living Doll" wouldn't sell a copy). In 1961 Freeman became the presenter of the BBC's first chart show, Pick of the Pops, initially on Saturday nights but moving to Sunday evenings from the start of 1962, and achieved huge audiences otherwise starved of guaranteed airings of the original versions of hit records (a