Dominic King

Career

Dom arrived at the BBC in February 2001, after working as a commercial radio news presenter for eight years in London and across the South.

His career highlights so far include presenting a BBC TV programme from the United Nations in New York which included an interview with the late Audrey Hepburn. Reporting from the back of a UN plane as it dropped humanitarian aid over the war ravaged Sudan in Africa and live coverage of the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

Kent

Dom who was born in Dover says he loves Kent "it is a county that has everything from young and funky Canterbury to the flat vista of the Romney Marsh. It's a county that has it all - sea, sand, countryside and city".

Awards

Dom is the winner of two Gold BBC Frank Gillard awards for local radio and in 2005 received a Gold Sony radio academy award for his coverage of the 60th anniversary of D-Day.

He's been twice short-listed for the British Radio Awards and has received a highly commended title in the Kent Broadcast Journalist of the Year Awards.

Interviews

He has had his share of high profile and entertaining guests in recent years from the former Prime Minister Tony Blair to music stars including Lionel Richie and Gene Simmons, to movie directors
including Ang Lee.

He has hosted a number of 'in conversations with' in front of invited audiences, most notable Sir David Frost looking back at his career and interview with disgraced American President Richard Nixon.

Dominic King & Mark Thompson

Dominic King is on air at 4pm every weekday - with Kent news, entertainment and great music.