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Malcolm George Boyden (born 5 August 1964) is a double

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local radio presenter, who currently presents the Mid-morning show as well as a Sunday show on

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. He won a Sony gold award in 1997 for 'Radio Personality of the Year', and followed that up in 2001 when he took a bronze award in the 'Broadcaster of the Year' category.

Early career

Boyden began his career as a newspaper journalist for the '' Redditch Indicator''. He then went on to work as a sports sub-editor on the '' Daily Star'' and then sports editor of the ''

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''. He is a regular at the Hawthorns to watch his beloved West Bromwich Albion.

Broadcasting career

He first started broadcasting on

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as a commentator on

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games. He then started broadcasting on BBC WM in the summer of 1993 presenting the Sunday Lunchtime show. In addition to that, in May 1994 he also took over Saturday Breakfast and later in 1994 was promoted to the Weekday Mid-Morning show from 10am to 12midday, taking over from

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. He then went on to present the lunchtime show from noon to 2pm and then the afternoon show from 1 to 4pm until he was axed from the station in March 2004.

BBC Hereford & Worcester

After six months in the wilderness, freelancing on various commercial stations around the

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area, in October 2004, Boyden was poached by

to present their Tuesday evening sports show from 7 to 9pm. In addition to that, in May 2005 he also took over a Sunday morning show on the station from 9am to midday. He now presents the mid-morning show (weekdays 10am - 1pm) with regular contributions from the listeners, including "Lord Taylor", "Russ the cobbler","Gaz Le Bass", "Double Denim Dave" and "Tip-off Tim" to name but a few.

BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Malcolm presented the Drive Time slot on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire for some time, from Monday to Thursday between 5pm and 7pm, as well as his Saturday Breakfast show between 9am and noon. In addition to his regular stints on

, in late 2005, Boyden also took over Saturday Breakfast on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire. He went on to take over Saturday mornings and his last show was on Saturday 2 March 2013.

Back to Birmingham

In the summer of 2006, Boyden made a brief return to BBC WM, where he took over the evening show, from Daz Hale who had taken over the Breakfast show during the summer of that year. He remained on the show until the Autumn of 2006 as Daz Hale returned to the slot upon the arrival of Phil Upton on the stations Breakfast show. Boyden covered for various presenters on the station since then. This was in addition to his weekend shows on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire &

, although he did quit his Tuesday evening show on BBC Hereford & Worcester to take over the shows on BBC WM.

BBC Oxford

Boyden joined

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in April 2008 initially as cover for other presenters, beginning his regular slot as the weekday breakfast presenter (7am10am) in the autumn of the same year. As an experienced sports journalist Boyden gained considerable support for his 'I Believe' campaign during the 200809 season and made a personal appearance at the U’s ground to hand out car stickers to fans. Boyden presented the 10am to 1pm show. His last show on BBC Oxford was on Friday 31 October 2014.

Current work

Malcolm swapped the Breakfast show for the 10am1pm show on 95.2FM. Boyden is still heard on the radio every weekend across Hereford and Worcester, now presenting a Sunday mid-morning Show from 9am to noon. He lives in Bromsgrove with his wife Maxine and their two sons Elliott and Oliver. Malcolm is an ardent West Bromwich Albion supporter (often referred to as Boing, Boing Boyden) and also follows Oxford United due to his work with the local radio station. Malcolm now hosts the mid morning show on BBC Hereford and Worcester between 10am and 2pm. Malcolm started a 12-week stint in Saturday mornings for BBC WM on Saturday 14 May 2016.

Other work

Boyden has also published a number of books: his debut novel, ''Perfect'', was published in 2003. ''Brum's The Word'', a book made up of his football columns in ''

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'' following his team West Brom, came out the same year. Boyden's third book, ''Ferrets, Faggots and Elvis'', focussing on the eccentric folk of the West Midlands, was published in 2005. His latest book, ''The Greatest Podcasting Tips in the World'' appeared in August 2007. Boyden has become a pantomime regular making his debut in 1997 when he played alongside

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and

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in ''Goldilocks and the Three Bears'' at Birmingham’s Hippodrome Theatre. Malcolm became a pantomime dame, in 2000 when he took on the role of Mother Goose at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre. In 2002, he teamed up again with Frank Bruno as Gertie the ''Queen of the Circus'' in Goldilocks at the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. In 2003-04 he returned to the

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when he appeared with

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in ''Cinderella''. In 2006 and 2007 he appeared at the

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. In 2008 / 09 he was in Lichfield again with ''Dick Whittington''. Malcolm has also appeared with the Birmingham Royal Ballet; he performed the role of the Magician's Assistant in David Bintley’s ''The Cracked Nut''.

Trivia

The Birmingham-based ''Sunday Mercury'' once did a special “supplement” containing a life-size full colour pullout picture of Malcolm, which readers could assemble from five different pieces.

External links

BBC Oxford 95.2fm

Interview with Malcolm Boyden
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