Dennis McCarthy (radio presenter)

Dennis McCarthy MBE (7 May 1933 – 10 January 1996) was a British radio presenter.

He broadcast five days a week with Afternoon Special, networked to BBC Radio Leicester, BBC Radio Derby and BBC Radio Lincolnshire in 1980.^{[citation needed]}

For BBC Radio 4 he contributed features and interviews. He was a reporter for the BBC on East Midlands TV.^[1]

He was made an MBE for services to broadcasting in 1991.^[2]

Taken ill on air, McCarthy insisted on finishing the programme, dying the same day at his home in Bingham.^{[citation needed]}