Presenters

After several years in London working in TV production and tarting his tonsils around Soho as a voiceover artist, he decided he could resist the urge of the airwaves no longer and headed back up the M1. Richard joined BBC Radio Nottingham as a Travel News Reporter in 2005.

He has always been transfixed by the wireless, and has an unhealthily extensive knowledge of old British comedy, with a particular penchant for the likes of '60s radio comedy Round The Horne and Ealing-made film School For Scoundrels.

Outside the world of broadcasting, Richard’s consuming passions are food and wine.  He invested in a Chinese cookery book, a wok, and a cleaver at the age of eight and never looked back. Seafood is one of his greatest loves and obsessions. Summer holidays are usually spent on the North Cornish coast – sea-fishing, collecting mussels off the rocks, and diving for crabs.

Amongst Richard's better-known heroes are Rick Stein, Terry-Thomas, Kenneth Williams, Peter Sellers, Steve Coogan, Sir John Betjeman, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Fry.

Appearing across BBC Radio Nottingham's output - you cannot tie this man down.

All time top ten

The following is a list of Richard Spurr's all time top ten:

01 - Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You
02 - Pet Shop Boys - Liberation
03 - Diana Ross - I Thought It Took A Little Time
04 - Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
05 - A-Ha - Take On Me
06 - The Carpenters - Only Yesterday
07 - Shirley Bassey - I Am What I Am
08 - The Seekers - I'll Never Find Another You
09 - Erasure - A Little Respect
10 - Sandy Denny & Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes