BBC Essex Presenters

Many use BBC local radio as a starting point for their broadcasting careers, but  Dave regards it as an end in itself. 

He's had a varied background; including owning his own firm of solicitors, a wine bar and bistro, run a disco and worked in nightclubs, as well as lecturing in law.

The Dave Monk programme is on-air every weekday morning between 9 and noon and gives the people of Essex the opportunity to share their experiences of life.

He also talks to local and national politicians, writers and celebrities - so many different people with so many different views!

More about Dave...

• Dave grew up in Southend and is a Piscean
  
  
• His first job saw him working in his parents pub
  
  
• His first kiss was under a lampost, but "I'm too much of a gentleman to name names"
  
  
• Dave's first car was a Bubblecar
  
  
• The first record that he bought was 'something' by Grieg
  
  
• His favourite places in Essex are numerous as he has "too many favourites.  Southend, because I was born there, Thurrock because people have such great humour and Heybridge Basin because it's so beautiful".
  
  
• When he was young Dave wanted to be a Doctor, and reckons that if he didn't work in radio he would probably be dead!!
  
  
• His most memorable BBC Essex moments are again numerous. "I once spoke to Anne Frank's half sister about her time in a Nazi concentration camp. I couldn't stop the tears, mine not hers".