Category Archives: People

The Radio Production Awards – By Paul Sylvester

What comes out of the radio speakers is the most important thing in radio. Sometimes though, you never ‘hear of’ or ‘know of’ the people who really make the shows happen – the ones who toil in the background to craft the programmes and work with the presenters to make the listening experience an enjoyable [...]

Radio Production Awards Nominations – by Paul Sylvester

A week after scooping 7 Sony Radio Academy awards and a fortnight after receiving 7 Arqiva Award nominations, we’re delighted to announce the Absolute Radio family has received 6 nominations at the Radio Academy Production Awards. This includes Somethin’ Else’s Claire Neal for Music Entertainment Producer of the year for the Ronnie Wood Show (now there’s [...]

The Sony Winners

We’re still basking in the glory of our seven Sony Award accolades from Monday night. Just to remind you (in case you could forget!) we took home three Golds, three Silvers and one Bronze award in a record breaking win for the station. The three Gold Awards went to our very lovely Annabel Port for [...]

Ben Jones to Leave Absolute Radio to Pursue TV Projects

Much-loved and well-respected broadcaster Ben Jones will be leaving Absolute Radio at the end of July to pursue new projects.  He will begin by hosting TV coverage of a major music event this summer, the details of which will be released soon. In his time at One Golden Square, Ben has interviewed the great and [...]

Nice Day For a Royal Wedding by Andrew Bailey

Celebrating our nuptials in front of a world-wide audience is, thankfully, not something any of us will have to consider in our lifetime. However for Prince William and Catherine Middleton, their very public marriage is attracting a global spotlight that hasn’t been seen for years. After much deliberation about “should we or shouldn’t we” resource [...]