Dan Shepherd Gerry Wells currently lives among 1200 working radios in the house he grew up in and still lives in, now Britain's foremost 'living' radio museum. He hosts regular talks, workshops and musical evenings for devotees and followers of the world he's created.

80 year old Gerry has devoted his whole life to repairing, caring for and making radio sets. From the age of two he was transfixed by all things electrical, he "loved taking things apart, nothing was safe". A genius? John Paul Getty thought to, personally travelling to see him on several occasions, having initially taken a rare HMV set for Gerry to repair in the 1980s. Getty decided to fund Gerry's museum as a result.

Gerry's life has been hard: troubles with the law and remand homes as a teenager, financial woes during his working life. Radio was responsible for his downfall from respectable society but, like all stories with a happy ending, has ultimately been his saviour.

A natural and amusing storyteller who can recall key episodes of his life in great detail, Gerry is that wonderfully genuine English eccentric who has remained loyal to his dreams.

Press

"The Wireless World of Gerry Wells was a terrific portrait of an eccentric. It was also a love letter to radio [...] This feature told his life story engagingly - Wells got into trouble as a teenager obsessed with all things electrical, stealing from bomb-hit houses in the war - and hovered over the significant oddness of the way Wells lives. I loved the bit where an equally peculiar couple wandered in: a bee-keeper and paper restorer, looking for someone to fix their television. Most of all, though, this captured a sense of a life from another era, and one lived intensely in a radio-filled nook."

Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 23.08.10