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{{Short description|Scottish radio presenter}}
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'''"Tiger" Tim Stevens''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE}} (born '''James Gerard Dickson McGrory''' on 4 February 1952) is a [[disc jockey]], working in the West of [[Scotland]] since 1973 on radio, primarily [[Radio Clyde]].<ref name=mult-sclerosis>{{cite web|url=http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Jan2003/DJwMSTimStevens.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030205124944/www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Jan2003/DJwMSTimStevens.html|archive-date=2003-02-05|title=I knew I had to quit when I couldn't stand up any more - DJ Tiger Tim faces up to the effects of multiple sclerosis|publisher=Evening Times (Glasgow)|author=Brian Beacom}}</ref>  He moved from [[Clyde 1]] to [[Clyde 2]] at the start of 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.merrymedia.co.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2028|title=Merry Media News - TV News, Radio News, Showbiz News! - Tiger Tim Stevens Joins 1152 Clyde 2<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref> He presented his last show on [[Radio Clyde]] on Saturday 8 May 2010 on [[Clyde 2]], which featured friends and colleagues paying tribute to him.

Stevens was born on 4 February 1952 and was brought up in [[Easterhouse]], a housing scheme in [[Glasgow]].  At the age of 17 he started disc jockeying at The Electric Garden nightclub in [[Sauchiehall Street]]. Stevens was recruited to Radio Clyde in 1974 and remained a regular broadcaster there for most of his career, with a temporary stint at [[West Sound AM|West Sound]] in the 1980s.  Stevens' first show on Radio Clyde, that was broadcast on Monday evenings between 8 pm and 10 pm in the mid-1970s - was entitled ''The Aff Its Heid Show.'' 

Stevens left Radio Clyde in May 1975 to try his hand at being a pop star (he had released a number of songs which he would play on his own show with his band called the ''Aff Its Heid Band'', a group of young Glasgow musicians), but he returned to the Radio Clyde shortly afterwards.{{fact|date=October 2023}}

In 1987, Stevens was diagnosed with [[multiple sclerosis]], but continued to work in radio despite the steady progression of the disease.<ref name=mult-sclerosis />  In March 2010 a benefit night was held to raise funds for treatment for Stevens.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/editor-s-picks-ignore/stars-are-all-coming-out-for-tiger-1.1011343 |title=Stars are all coming out for Tiger |publisher=Evening Times |date=30 March 2012 |accessdate=18 September 2013}}</ref>  Stevens then travelled to [[Katowice]], Poland for a new experimental treatment of [[Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency|Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Brian Beacom |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/health/tiger-tim-s-treatment-may-bring-hope-to-ms-sufferers-1.1017321 |title=Tiger Tim's treatment may bring hope to MS sufferers |publisher=Herald Scotland |date=30 March 2010 |accessdate=18 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/editor-s-picks-ignore/it-s-my-chance-to-live-1.1017234 |title=It's my chance to live |publisher=Evening Times |date=30 March 2012 |accessdate=18 September 2013}}</ref>  Stevens reported initial results as promising.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/editor-s-picks-ignore/moment-of-truth-for-tiger-after-his-ms-treatment-1.1017675 |title=Moment of truth for Tiger after his MS treatment |publisher=Evening Times |date=30 March 2012 |accessdate=18 September 2013}}</ref>

In the early 1990s, Stevens made public announcements for the Scottish football club [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] during games at [[Celtic Park]].  He was sacked in September 1993 for making a joke during a European match about rivals [[Rangers F.C.|Rangers]] getting beaten in the European Cup on the same night.<ref>{{cite web|author=Ken Smith |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/red-card-for-tiger-tim-after-request-1.739979 |title=Red card for Tiger Tim after 'request' |publisher=Herald Scotland |date=30 September 1993 |accessdate=18 September 2013}}</ref>

In 2006, Stevens was awarded the [[Order of the British Empire|Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)]] for his charity work and services to broadcasting in Scotland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5088028.stm|title=Ferguson among honours recipients|date=16 June 2006|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.scotsman.com/topstories/FMs-Tiger-Tim-rocks-on.2784657.jp|title=News &#124; The Scotsman}}</ref>  He was also awarded [[Reo Stakis]] Lifetime Achievement award at the [[Tartan Clef]] Awards in 2006<ref>{{YouTube|9rBpaUtDpsQ|Lifetime Achievement Award - Tiger Tim Stevens<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tartanclef.org/fundraising.php|title=tartanclef.org|website=www.tartanclef.org}}</ref>

Stevens presented ''The Untied Shoelaces Show'', a [[BBC Scotland]] morning children's TV programme in 1982.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/aboutus/wirelesstoweb/decades/index.shtml?decade=80s|title=BBC - Scotland - The Wireless to the Web - Through the Decades|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/384102|title=BFI &#124; Film & TV Database &#124; The UNTIED SHOELACES SHOW (1982)|date=14 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100314010042/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/384102 |archive-date=14 March 2010 }}</ref>

Stevens has a fashion modelling contract with [[Ben Sherman]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/features/display.var.2051365.0.0.php|title=Evening Times: Features<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref>

In 2012, Stevens portrayed the character Dr Ferguson in an independent feature film [[Night is Day (film)|Night is Day]].<ref>"[http://www.nightisday.net NightIsDay.net/cast.php]" - Night Is Day Official website</ref>

In August 2015, it was announced that Stevens would be one of the voices on the forthcoming DAB radio station [[GO Radio (Glasgow)|GO!]] in Glasgow.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Former Clyde 1 presenters launch new Glasgow radio station|url = http://glasgow.stv.tv/articles/1327062-glasgow-to-launch-new-dab-radio-station-go/|website = STV Glasgow|accessdate = 2016-01-03}}</ref>

==Further reading==

Tim Stevens and Brian Beacom, The Adventures of Tiger Tim: The Authorised Biography of Tim Stevens (Black and White Publishing), 2000) {{ISBN|1-902927-13-3}}, {{ISBN|978-1-902927-13-8}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/tigertimstevens Tiger Tim's Youtube page]

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