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Mark went to school in Thurston near Bury St. Edmunds and has been working in radio for over 20 years.

He started his radio career in the murky world of pirate radio in the 1980's, which included a lengthy stint on Radio Caroline broadcasting from the North Sea.

Then it was off to Invicta Radio in Kent which then led to nearly three years working in France. Mark says "There's probably a book worth of laughs and experiences to come out of broadcasting from a barn above a converted nightclub"!

After they closed down Mark came back to his roots and spent over five years at SGR in Ipswich before leaving to start his own business.

Mark was  tempted out of radio retirement by a former colleague who persuaded him to get into producing sport at Independent Radio News in London and he stayed until November 2000 when he joined  BBC Radio Suffolk.

Fact File

Starsign: Virgo

Grew up in: Suffolk

First job: Milkman

Mark and Bryan at the Suffolk Show

First car: Ford Escort

First ever record: 'Hotel California' - Eagles

Favourite things

Place in Suffolk: Anywhere with a pint in my hand

Item in wardrobe: Are you seriously asking a member of the sports team that question? 

Food: Italian, Chinese, Indian

Song: Anything but 'Singing The Blues'...come on find something else to play at 3 o'clock!

Film: Escape To Victory

TV show as an adult: The Clangers

TV show as a child: The Clangers

Colour: Blue, obviously

Best moment on air: Inter Milan away November 2001.  Big OB's at Newmarket,  always a good laugh.  

Worst moment on air: When the anchor chain broke on Radio Caroline - not knowing whether the lights we were seeing get closer were in Felixstowe or Belgium!