Just me keeping 5 Live on air atm. I’ve done radio since I was v small. Making coffee and learning everything at Radio Lancs. Reading the travel news at AA Roadwatch. Then my first full time job as an SM at Bush House with the BBC World Service...
I got to travel to Portugal, Pakistan, and Atlanta while I was at the World Service, and it was great. Next was Radio Merseyside where I got to mix Pete Wylie in the community studio, make drama-docos with Tom Slemen and do outreach work with young people on the BBC Bus...
I left the Beeb for a bit and taught radio and audio production at an FE college before coming back to freelance as an SM for 5 Live in Salford. They couldn’t get rid of me and now I’m back on the staff working with the best people in @OpsBbc...
This last year we’ve done the most important work of my career. Our listeners have wanted to know so much about every that’s been going on, to ask questions and share their stories. It’s a great reminder on #WorldRadioDay of the importance of that relationship...
If you’ve made it this far you deserve to see the oldest photo of me working in a radio studio. It’s Children in Need night at Radio Lancs. I think @geraldradio snuck out of Std 1 to take it. Simon Johnson is editing. Just look how much fun I’m having! 📻
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