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Sacha Brooks is a British
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and DJ from
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.


Biography

Sacha's radio career started on the pirate radio station Globe 107.7fm in Nottingham and she went on to launch Choice 102.2 in
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. She relocated to Japan where she spent three years as a DJ before returning to the United Kingdom to join Vibe 105 – 108. She was then poached by Galaxy Birmingham to host "The Flava Zone" before being promoted to the
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network based in
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, where she originally did the afternoon show before being moved up to the mid-morning one.
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was rebranded as
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on 3 January 2011. She is now the weekday drivetime and until 17 September 2011 the Saturday mid-morning presenter on Capital Birmingham (previously Galaxy Birmingham). She also presented a networked Dubstep/Funky/R&B show each Sunday 2-5 am on Capital network from 1 May 2011 until 15 July 2012, however this show continues to air locally on Capital Birmingham every Friday 2-4 am.Sacha Brooks
OfficialWebsite She also hosted a Saturday mid-morning program from 9 am-1 pm on
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, but shortly afterwards, it was taken over by Vick Hope. On 30 August 2019, Global Radio launched a new station ‘Capital XTRA Reloaded’ (launched Monday 2 September) whereby Sacha was selected to be the first presenter on the station. As a result of which she ceased working for Capital in Birmingham on the drive time show, which Global replaced with ‘Tom & Claire’ (originally from Capital East Midlands). Now Sacha presents the breakfast show on Capital XTRA Reloaded from 8am-12pm Monday-Friday. Sacha Brooks presented her final show on Capital Xtra Reloaded on 26 May 2023 after deciding to hang up her headphones.


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