For the past three years, a healthy chunk of my Tuesday evenings have been spent at the Resonance FM studio in south London for Radio DIVA; a cacophonous cauldron of aural excitement hosted and produced by Rosie Wilby and Heather Peace.

Even when I wasn’t able to make it along to the studio in person, Rosie, Heather, official “lesbro” Jonathan Phang and roving reporter Rachel Shelley have kept me company; in my headphones on the tube, playing on my laptop while making dinner, or helping me through a deadline on a Wednesday morning in the DIVA office, listening to the show on catch-up.

But all good things must come to an end and, after 112 shows – with the team increasingly busy with various other projects – it’s time for Radio DIVA to sign off for good. I caught up with the gang for a little swan song ahead of their farewell show next month.

“Radio DIVA came about when a filmmaker friend of mine took me out to dinner with Linda Riley in the summer of 2016,” Rosie reminiscences. “Linda had just become publisher of DIVA and mentioned that she was keen to look into doing some kind of radio show. I told her about my LGBTQI show, Out In South London, which I had been presenting for seven years on London’s brilliantly eclectic arts radio station Resonance FM. I’d had some amazing guests, brilliant reviews from esteemed radio critics and even won an award. However, I felt like it was time for me to do something new with it. And so, Radio DIVA was born!”

AFTER THREE WONDERFUL YEARS ON AIR, THE RADIO DIVA STUDIO WILL TURN OFF ITS MICS FOR THE FINAL TIME NEXT MONTH. CARRIE LYELL CAUGHT UP WITH THE GANG FOR ONE LAST TUNE

Conversations soon began about who would co-host. Heather, best known as an actor and musician, tells me she initially came onboard as a bit of a guest presenter, but things “naturally progressed”. “As I got into the swing of it, I was really, really enjoying it. We started to feel like a bit of a team and, Rosie and I, we both missed each other if one or the other was away working.”