How it all started :
I have had a passion for radio since the age of 14, when I sent a demo tape to Radio Caroline; only to be turned down because I was too young. I had also sent a tape to Derek Chinnery at BBC Radio 1, who was Emperor Rosko’s producer, but after a lot of calls and letters to see if it had been listened to I was told that unfortunately it had been lost, but would I like to come to Radio 1 and do it live? When I got there it was amazing to see that they were still using Gates turn tables and vinyl, and I had Alan Freeman on one side of me and the sound engineers one the other. I then broke into Hospital Radio and R. A. F. Radio at the age of fifteen. After working on mobile discos, I became the Resident DJ at the Top Rank Suite in Reading, and I also worked in the early days of the town’s new commercial radio station, Radio 210. I recorded shows in London’s Herford street for Radio Luxembourg and had a daily show on Radio Bahrain in the Middle East for 14 months, and then came back home to Top Rank – not as a DJ but as Area promotions Manager based in Sheffield looking after eight night clubs. Later I returned to Reading to do the same job here. I was offered the London area next, from where I managed to fit in presenting on quite a few Radio stations, including the early schedules on Kick FM in Newbury, then on to Kestrel FM in Basingstoke. Other radio stations I worked on were Express Radio Newcastle, Crown FM in Norwich and Reading, Ridge FM in Abingdon and Easy Radio London. There could be more - it was a long time ago! I then moved on to television and joined Thames Valley T V as station Manager and presenter and spent four challenging years there. In 2001 I was asked by Reading College to put together a student radio station to be run to profession standards, including preparing the application to the Radio Authority for the on-air AM licence. My task was also to develop the on-air sound of the station and I brought in professional equipment and sourced and nurtured new talent. The station went on to receive a Sony Award and eight Internet Radio awards, and ten of my student presenters went on to full-time positions in the Industry. The studios were used by B. B. C. 6 Music to broadcast their Breakfast Show live with Phill Jupitus, who expressed on air his admiration for the facilities we had at the College. Resulting from a take-over of Reading College by the Slough/Ealing campus of Thames Valley University, my position was axed and I left after four great years and moved for the summer season to Zakynthos in Greece to present the breakfast show on Island FM for six months - and that’s were I am to date.