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Philip Stuart Brady OAM (16 June 1939 - 11 February 2025 was a popular Australian media personality.

Born on 16 June 1939, raised in Kew, he left school at 18 and started working at Channel Nine in 1958. Brady appeared with Graham Kennedy on In Melbourne Tonight in commercials and comedy sketches.

Brady hosted many television shows including In Melbourne Tonight, Concentration and Everybody's Talking, Moneymakers, Junior Moneymakers, Casino Ten, Get the Message and Password.

Brady made guest appearances on television in the 1990s with a regular nostalgia segment on Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton as well as guest appearances on Seven's Tonight Live with Steve Vizard and ABC's The Late Show.

Brady hosted shows on radio 3AK at various times during the 1960s and 1980s and also did shifts on radio 3AW in the 1970s.

He worked as producer for Bert Newton's morning show on radio 3UZ in the early 1980s.

In 1986, Brady moved to the Gold Coast and for nearly five years hosted a daytime radio show on Easy Listening 97 Tweed Heads.

Brady came back to Melbourne in 1990 and began a long-lasting partnership with Bruce Mansfield on talkback radio 3AW. Initially they presented the Sunday night nostalgia program Remember When and some months later the duo took over the weeknight show Nightline as well.

In February 2025, Brady retired from 3AW after over 30 years with the station.

Brady died from cancer on 11 February 2025, at the age of 85. Vale Philip Brady. 
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❊ Also See... ❊

➼ History of Australian Television

➼ In Melbourne Tonight (IMT)




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