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Iain Lee has won Best Programme Presenter

They have also won Coverage of a News Story - The Trojan Horse Plot

BBC WM - Station of the year

Cue new set of jingles I suppose?

This is the station of year, BBC WM 95.6?

This week's 'Face Behind The Voice' in the Radio Times is Mollie Green.

I wouldnt want to see her do the second of her secret skills personally!

Danny Kelly bailed out after an a hour today, as he had the lurgy, being replaced by Daz Hale.

(I know how he feels as Im off work today as well!)

Michelle Dawes has been covering for Caroline Martin while the latter is abroad.

They've just played a trail for a documentary about the Brum pub bombers to be transmitted at 8pm on Friday night.

So that means they'll take the first hour of Mark Forrest, then opt out at 8, presumbly for an hour, then opt back to Mark Forrest at 9.

Why not run the doc from 7pm & opt into Mark Forrest later?

They might do an hour of Sport between 7 & 8. I think the reason why it is going out at 8pm is because that was the hour that the bombs went off.


Daz only seems to cover when they can't find anyone else.

Who is Wm's programme organiser these days?

Remember 20 odd years ago it was Waddo & Simon Lederman, as they only appeared sporadically before, Waddo especially, got regular slots.

I don't know who for sure but I think it's Adam Bridge.

Hubby to the lovely Caroline!

(Mind you someone said yesterday Michelle Dawes sounded like Mollie Green!

Dear god, do we need 2 like her. Ones bad enough! Lol)

I don't know who BBC WM's programme controller/director is but I'm sure it isn't Adam Bridge (although he did hold that role at BRMB at the back end of the last decade).

Adam is a freelancer, with him being one of the main commentators on talkSPORT's international radio Premier League commentary service among his regular gigs away from BBC WM. Were he the programme controller at WM, I imagine he'd be contracted to the BBC and so wouldn't be able to maintain such a level of outside commitments.

I was wrong, but he does have something to do with management
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/adam-bridge/18/2a3/384

So have a guess who BBC WM's NEW presenter is? Chris Tarrant. He will be on over Christmas and I will post the full Xmas schedule on here when I get it.

Is he live or prerecorded?

Will be interested to see if theres any listener interaction or not.

Not too sure but, when the xmas schedule comes out you will probably know by the times he is on. I am right in think he used to do a show on Smooth west midlands about 4 or 5 years ago or maybe longer?

CT did the Saturday mid mornings back in the days when Smooth was otherwise full time local, as his show went out on both Smooth & Real Radio!

Was it Mike Osman that used to be his sidekick on that show?

Whoever it was used to do an impersonation of CT !

'That sounds nothing like me!'

This week's Hunted has a guest Hunter.
Debi is off ill, so Steve Hermon is out in the radio car this morning.

Got the Christmas Radio Times 2day so here is WM's Xmas & New Year Schedule

Christmas Eve
05:00 Michelle Dawes
06:00 Pete Morgan
09:00 Caroline Martin
12:00 Ed Doolan's Christmas show
14:00 Carols
15:00 Sunny & Shay
17:00 Shane O'Connor
19:00 Johnny I 'Anson
22:00 Colin Young

Christmas Day
06:00 Sior Coleman
08:00 Pete Morgan
12:00 Ed Doolan's Christmas show
14:00 Chris Tarrant
15:00 Carols
16:00 Susan Boyle Special
17:00 Soul & Motown
19:00 Mark Forrest
22:00 Graham Torrington

Boxing Day
06:00 Pete Morgan
09:00 Caroline Martin
12:00 Chris Tarrant
14:00 WM Sport
20:00 Jazz
22:00 Colin Young

Saturday 27th December
06:00 Michelle Dawes
09:00 Mollie Green, Shane O'Connor
11:00 Chris Tarrant
12:00 Moseley Folk
14:00 WM Sport
16:00 Soul & Motown
18:00 as Normal

Sunday 28th December
06;00 Sior Coleman
07:00 Michelle Dawes
09:00 WW1 at Home
11:00 Ed Doolan
11:45 WM Sport
18:00 as Normal
22:00 Carl Emms

Monday 29th December
05:00 Michelle Dawes
06:00 Adrian Goldberg
09:00 Danny Kelly
12:00 Mollie Green
14:00 Sunny & Shay
16:00 Paul Franks
18:00 Football Phone Inn
19:00 Emma Brittion
22:00 Stuart Ellis

Tuesday 30th December
05:00 Michelle Dawes
06:00 Adrian Goldberg
09:00 Danny Kelly
12:00 Mollie Green
14:00 Sunny & Shay
16:00 Shane O'Connor
18:00 Chris Tarrant
19:00 Emma Brittion
22:00 Stuart Ellis

New Year's Eve
05:00 Michelle Dawes
06:00 Adrian Goldberg
09:00 Danny Kelly
12:00 Chris Tarrant
13:00 Mollie Green
15:00 Soul & Motown
17:00 Sunny & Shay
19:00 Tony Blackburn
22:00 Colin Young

New Year's Day
06:00 Adrian Goldberg
09:00 Iain Lee
11:00 Chris Tarrant
12:00 Sunny & Shay
14:00 WM Sport
18:00 Chris Tarrant
19:00 Mark Dennison
22:00 Lizzie Crow

Friday 2nd January
05:00 Michelle Dawes
06:00 Adrian Goldberg
09:00 Danny Kelly
12:00 Mollie Green
14:00 Iain Lee
16:00 Paul Franks
18:00 Football Phone Inn
19:00 Mark Dennison
22:00 Colin Young

Chris Tarrant in all those hour long slots???

Tarrant must be prerecorded.

Tony Blackburn again?

Who the heck is Emma Brittion? BBC Radio Leeds I suppose.

Suppose the Susan Boyle thing is being transmitted at different times on different stations?

It makes a change that Wm is transmitting one of these one off specials as we're still owed some Paul Rowley & Kenny Everett docs arent we?

I guess we will be on recorded stuff from 12 midday on the 25th then?

That's what it says in the radio times. I think some of the shows could be the same.


Blackburn never seems to stop working he is in his 70s to and is so Boring!

I'd still rather listen to a 72 year old than I would most of today's presenters that's for sure.

The 7-10pm slot is the networked slot so maybe he's doing that NYE show across the BBC local network followed by 3 hours on Radio 2 from 10pm