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Martin Ballard
Martin Ballard
BBC Radio Leicester's presenter Martin Ballard
Martin Ballard presents Drive at 16.00 - 19.00, Monday to Friday. He is an accomplished actor and voiceover artist as well as an experienced broadcaster with the BBC for the last 20 years.
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 Martin is Leicestershire born and is a BA (Hons) Performing Arts graduate from De Montfort University.

He has worked on radio with a host of stars from Sir Cliff Richard to Donny Osmond, Boy George to Norman Wisdom. As an actor, he has worked extensively in the theatre and appeared alongside many famous names.

He’s presented a number of celebrity specials with the likes of Status Quo and Max Bygraves, appeared in Real Crimes for Granada TV and continued his basketball commentary for the Leicester Riders games.

His CD "Shining Light" raised £2,000 for Children In Need and he enjoyed his 14th season in Pantomime.

Born: 09 October

Star sign: Libra

Hobbies: Playing sport – Football and Basketball, listening to music from a massive collection of vinyl and CD’s. He also enjoys theatre, cinema and music concerts. Much of his social life is spent watching his son play football, tennis, perform in shows and beat him on the Playstation. His greatest love is travel.

Favourite music: Martin’s music taste is an eclectic one from theatrical scores to new country artists. He loves everything from soul to heavy rock in his collection and boasts a number of signed album copies.

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BBC Radio Leicester
9 St Nicholas Place,
Leicester,
Leicestershire.
LE1 5LB

Telephone: 0116 251 6688
Text message: 07786 205080
Text message: 0116 253 6935
Phone-ins: 0116 251 1049
Actionline: 0116 201 6644
Fax: 0116 251 1463
E-mail: radioleicester@bbc.co.uk

Editor: Kate Squire
E-mail: kate.squire@bbc.co.uk

Frequency: 104.9 FM and Digital Radio (DAB)





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