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BBC Southern Counties Radio
BBC Southern Counties Radio was a BBC Local Radio service for the English counties of Surrey and Sussex. The station also covered a large part of north-east Hampshire. It was the first BBC local radio station to introduce an all-speech format. It broadcast from studios in Brighton and Guildford on FM and AM, and on DAB on the NOW Sussex Coast multiplex. History The station was formed by the merger of BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio Surrey. It began on 1 August 1994. BBC Radio Sussex had originally been founded on 14 February 1968 as BBC Radio Brighton, broadcasting from studios in Marlborough Place. Des Lynam was one of the original presenters. It expanded to cover the whole of Sussex in October 1983. BBC Radio Surrey had a chequered history. Once planned as a stand-alone radio station, it eventually launched on 14 November 1991 as a limited opt-out service of BBC Radio Sussex, broadcasting from newly built studios on the campus of the University of Surrey in Guildford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The ancient settlement of "Brighthelmstone" was documented in the ''Domesday Book'' (1086). The town's importance grew in the Middle Ages as the Old Town developed, but it languished in the early modern period, affected by foreign attacks, storms, a suffering economy and a declining population. Brighton began to attract more visitors following improved road transport to London and becoming a boarding point for boats travelling to France. The town also developed in popularity as a health resort for sea bathing as a purported cure for illnesses. In the Georgian era, Brighton developed as a highly fashionable seaside resort, encouraged by the patronage of the Prince Regent, later King George IV, who spent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio Surrey
BBC Radio Surrey is the BBC's local radio station serving Surrey, north-east Hampshire and north West Sussex (including Gatwick Airport). It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at the University of Surrey in Guildford. Overview BBC Radio Surrey broadcasts breakfast programming for Surrey and North-East Hampshire six days a week, alongside hourly local news bulletins throughout the day. BBC Radio Surrey is transmitted on 104 and 104.6 FM, and on DAB via the MuxCo Surrey multiplex, which officially launched on 12 December 2013. It has also been available on BBC iPlayer since 2 September 2009. In addition, BBC Radio Surrey also broadcasts on Freeview TV channel 722 in the BBC South East region and streams online via BBC Sounds. According to RAJAR, BBC Radio Surrey and BBC Radio Sussex share a combined weekly audience of 203,000 listeners and a 1.7% share as of September 2022. Programming Local programming airs from the BBC's Guildford studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Busby
Dominic is a name common among Roman Catholics and other Latin-Romans as a male given name. Originally from the late Roman-Italic name "Dominicus", its translation means "Lordly", "Belonging to God" or "of the Master". Variations include: Dominicus (Latin rendition), Chiziterem (Igbo), Dominik, Dominick, Domenic, Domenico (Italian), Domanic, Dominiq, Domonic, Domènec (Catalan), Domingo (Spanish), Dominykas (Lithuanian), Domingos (Portuguese), Dominggus and Damhnaic (Irish); feminine forms like Dominica, Dominika, Domenica, Dominga, Domingas; as well as the unisex French origin Dominique. The most prominent Roman Catholic with the name, Saint Dominic, founded the Order of Preachers, also known as Dominican friars. Saint Dominic himself was named after Saint Dominic of Silos. Notable people named Dominic, Dominik or Dominick include: People Saints * Saint Dominic of Silos (1000–1073), Spanish monk * Saint Dominic de la Calzada (1019–1109), Spanish saint * Saint Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Grant (comedian)
Stephen Grant (born 2 July 1973 in Brighton) is a British comedian, comedy writer, and radio presenter. He hosts the Krater Comedy Club at Komedia in Brighton, which won the Chortle Award for Best Comedy Club in the South for 2002–2006, 2008, and 2011–2014. In 2008 and 2011, Grant won the Chortle Award for Best Compère. In the early 2000s, Grant wrote and hosted several documentaries for BBC2.Hawkins, Si"Circuit Training 28: Stephen Grant" ''British Comedy Guide''. 31 January 2011. He also wrote gags for BBC Radio 1's daytime DJs for many years. Of his one-hour comedy routine, ''The Stage'' wrote in 2004 that "Stephen Grant is nothing if not original. Supremely intelligent yet utterly accessible, his charm lies in the quick-fire speed of his mind." Grant has released two live comedy DVDs: ''Stephen Grant: Live at the Theatre Royal Brighton'' and ''Stephen Grant: Taken for Granted''. In addition to emceeing in Brighton, he also hosts at The Comedy Store in London. He has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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JoAnne Good
JoAnne Dorothy Good (born 15 January 1955) is a British radio presenter, television presenter, broadcast journalist and actress. Career Actress As an actress, she is best known for her role as Carol Sands in the ITV soap ''Crossroads'' from 1981 to 1984. She played a schoolgirl in the 1978 cult British horror film ''Killer's Moon'', and filmed an interview for the 2008 DVD release. She also appeared in the all-star black comedy film ''Eat the Rich'' in 1987 and in the ''Only Fools and Horses'' episode "Go West Young Man" in 1981. She provided the voices of Lillie Lightship, Sally Seaplane and Pearl in '' Tugs'', a show created by Robert D. Cardona, David Mitton and the original model makers of ''Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends''. On stage she has played the title role in ''Educating Rita'', co-starring with Norman Bowler, and for several years in the 1990s worked as part of Derek Nimmo's touring company, performing all over the world. She played several parts in ''The Bill'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Bates
Simon Philip Bates (born 17 December 1946) is an English disc jockey and radio presenter. Between 1976 and 1993 he worked at BBC Radio 1, presenting the station's weekday mid-morning show for most of this period. He later became a regular presenter on Classic FM. He hosted the breakfast show on Smooth Radio from January 2011 until March 2014, and took on the same role at BBC Radio Devon from January 2015 until January 2017. He was the first presenter of BBC Two's ''Food and Drink'' programme in 1982. Early life and career Bates was raised in Suffolk and Shropshire and educated at Adams' Grammar School before working for radio stations in New Zealand and Australia. Bates returned to the UK in 1971 to join the BBC, initially working for BBC Radio 4 as a continuity announcer and newsreader and then joining BBC Radio 2 in 1972 also reading the news and announcing as well as presenting a number of music programmes including "Sweet 'n' Swing", "Night Ride", "Late Night Extra" and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Buckley (LBC)
Bill Buckley (born 8 January 1959) is a radio and television presenter and former actor. For three years, he was a co-presenter of BBC Television's consumer affairs programme ''That's Life!''. He currently presents on BBC Radio Berkshire and has presented shows on BBC Radio Solent, BBC Southern Counties Radio, BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Oxford, London talk radio station LBC 97.3, BBC London 94.9 and numerous others. Early life Bill Buckley was born in Burton-upon-Trent in East Staffordshire on 8 January 1959. Career Buckley's broadcasting career began in 1982. While working as a newspaper reporter in his native West Midlands, he was chosen from thousands of hopefuls to present the consumer programme ''That's Life!'' on BBC1 alongside Esther Rantzen. His mother had entered him for the job without his knowing. After three years, he left ''That's Life!'' to become a reporter for the BBC's '' Holiday'' programme, and spent the next six years travelling the world. Other TV appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Radford (wine)
John Radford, born in Nottingham on 1 December 1946, died on 19 October 2012, was a British writer and broadcaster in the field of wine and food, with an emphasis on Spain. He was educated at Stamford School in Lincolnshire. Career After a background in the food and drink industry and retail, Radford's writing career started with children's comics, principally for the Dundee publishing house of D. C. Thomson & Co., with ''Judy'' comic for girls, for which he wrote a good deal of the annuals from 1978 to 1985 as well as the weekly paper. He also wrote for the same publisher's science fiction series '' Starblazer'', and contributed to other publications, including a series of stories about ''Dixon Hawke the Dover Street Detective'' for the Dundee ''Sporting Post''. He began lecturing about wine whilst in the wine trade, from 1975, and started writing about wine from 1977. His first regular column was in 1981 in the ''Coventry Evening Telegraph'' and this was subsequently syndicate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Heaton-Jones
Peter Heaton-Jones (born 1963) is a British Conservative Party politician, journalist and broadcaster. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament for North Devon at the 2015 general election. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary in two government departments between 2016 and 2019, when he stood down from Parliament. He previously held senior positions in the media in both the UK and Australia. He edited and presented news programming on BBC national and local radio stations in the UK, and was formerly head of marketing for ABC radio networks in Australia. Media career Heaton-Jones was born in 1963 in Kingston upon Thames. He began his broadcasting career after graduating from the University of London. He worked initially in commercial radio before joining the BBC in 1986, becoming a reporter, producer and news presenter at BBC Essex and anchoring the ''Breakfast'' and ''Drivetime'' programmes. He joined the national news and current affairs network BBC Radio 5 Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Boyd
Timothy Leslie Boyd (born 14 December 1952), better known as Tommy Boyd, is a British radio presenter. Television From 1977 to 1980, Boyd was co-presenter of the ITV children's magazine programme ''Magpie'' replacing Douglas Rae. In 1981, he presented ''What's Happening?'', a news quiz. He also presented the Saturday TV-am show ''Wide Awake Club'' from 1986–1990, and its Sunday spin-off ''WAC Extra'', throughout the 1980s. In 1982, he joined the cast of ''Jigsaw'', including Janet Ellis, Sylvester McCoy and David Rappaport. Boyd also hosted Children's BBC programme called ''Puzzle Trail''. Between 1982 and 1984, Boyd fronted Central Television's Saturday morning kids TV show '' The Saturday Show'' alongside Isla St Clair and followed this with '' Saturday Starship'' in 1985 (co-presented by Bonnie Langford). He was the host of CITV between 1991-3. In 1993/4, Boyd worked on The Children's Channel, a satellite television channel. In 1997, Boyd presented the TV programme ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Astley
Gordon Astley (born 1 December 1948, Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire) is a British radio presenter. He is best known for his role a presenter on BBC Southern Counties Radio, which he left in February 2009 after almost 15 years. He was also presenter on the final series of the children's show Tiswas in 1982 alongside Sally James. Although brought in to replace former chief presenter Chris Tarrant, who had left to present '' O.T.T.'', Astley himself said he was there to take over James's old role. He has also been on various radio stations in the Midlands. He was the breakfast presenter at Mercia Sound in Coventry when it launched in 1980 and he was also a presenter at Beacon Radio and BBC WM, where he presented the Weekday Mid-Morning show until September 1994, when he first joined BBC Southern Counties Radio. He also presented a magic and mindreading show in Atlanta, Georgia He made a brief return to the Midlands in the late 1990s, when he took over the late night show on BBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
