Sunday presenters

The mixture of folk, blues, world and acoustic music in all of it's many different guises that I play on my Sunday evening show reflects my broad personal taste.  I don't really like categorising music and my albums at home range from Frank Zappa to Beethoven and from Django Reinhardt to Steve Reich.

Over the years I have always sought to feature as many local artists on the show as possible and tucked away in my loft at home are Radio Kent session tapes going back almost thirty years. Every now and then I pull out some dusty old box and give a long forgotten recording an airing on the programme.

I believe that local radio should provide a platform for local talent in all it's guises. Some of my favourite programming is when I have local performers doing live sessions on the show or when I get out and about recording performances or doing live outside broadcasts from my camper van at local festivals.

I first started presenting folk on BBC Radio Medway as it was in 1977 and since then I have also made documentaries and special features, in 2000 I produced 'The Century Speaks' for Radio Kent, a massive series of 16 half hour programmes about life in the county. I also worked on the Romany Voices project which still exists in the Romany Roots web pages. My radio work also extends to the national networks, presenting and producing programmes for Radio 4 and Radio 3. As well as working in radio I am a photographer, film maker, writer and arts worker with a particular interest in historical and contemporary life in Kent.

It's wonderfully varied county from the open flat expanses and wide skies of the marshes along the south coast to the rolling chalk downs in the north and from the industrialised banks of the Medway and Thames in the east to the oak forests of the High Weald in the west. This diverse landscape is home to so many communities, from tiny isolated villages to bustling cosmopolitan towns and cities, which together all make the county such an interesting place in which to live and work