Phil Angell

Presenter on first broadcast

Ex-Fox FM breakfast show presenter and Programme Controller Phil Angell was part of the Banbury FM team in 2001.

Even today Phil is very well known in Oxfordshire, having hosted the Fox FM breakfast show for several years in the nineties.   After moving to Cornwall Phil was keen to support the invitation to support Banbury FM.   Phil’s Saturday and Sunday morning programmes won huge support from Banbury FM’s listeners and, years after leaving Oxfordshire, he proved he is as popular as ever.

Today Phil is the Group Programme Controller for UKRD's portfolio of stations.   For a while in 2007/8 Phil presented a Sunday morning programme on the Oxford based radio station Jack FM .   This was done from Phil's home in Cornwall - an area of the country he has no intention of leaving!.

You can read more about Phil and UKRD on their website.

Mo Baker

News Assistant first broadcast

After appearing as a guest on Banbury People Mo, who ran her own hair salon, caught the Banbury FM bug.   She found the Banbury FM broadcasting environment to be enthralling, and worked mornings alongside Nikki Kirk researching and collecting audio for news reports.

Dave Boxer

Sports Editor

Dave was Banbury FM's Sports Editor and infamous for getting to every match on his bike.   Dave's coverage of the Banbury sports scene was unrivalled - from tennis to footy, and aunt sally to rugby, Dave had them all covered.

Born and bred in Banbury, Dave had been a student at Banbury school before heading off to university at Luton for a degree in Media Studies.

Dave provided Banbury FM's listeners with superb coverage of a wealth of local sports, otherwise ignored by other broadcasters.    During Banbury FM's second trial Dave provided a full commentary during a crucial Banbury United match and helped give the club one of their highest attendance figures during that season.

Dave also proved his versatility and became a local celebrity as the butt of the jokes in the breakfast show.  Andy Green and Nikki Kirk would send Dave off on his bike to a cold remote location - just to check the temperature!   Listeners would appear with flasks of hot coffee to care for poor old Dave!

Dave was one of Banbury FM's stars!   Boxer Boy as he was affectionately known was just at home speaking to local sports teams, speaking at the Banbury Business Breakfast Club to the captains of industry, presenting the half time trophies at a Banbury United match, standing at Banbury Cross in the rain, or commentating on the goal mouth action.

After Banbury FM Dave provided football commentary for Oxford United and Millwall football matches on the local radio stations, and went on to work for ITV.

You can listen to Dave on Banbury FM here:

Adrian Brookbank

Presenter on second broadcast

Adrian applied to Banbury FM to be part of the team in 2002 and landed the Friday night 80s show and Sunday breakfast.

After his work at Banbury FM Adrian landed a weekend show at a radio station in Lewisham. Here his popularity led to him taking over the station's drivetime show and eventually the position of Head Of Music.

Six months later and Adrian was asked to join the team at Oxford's Passion 107.9, where he stayed until January 2006, hosting the drivetime programme, and holding the role of Programme Manager.

After that Adrian worked for various stations including Time FM in Slough, Kick FM in West Berkshire and several GCap Media stations.  

Today Adrian is at Star Radio in Cambridge.

You can read more about Adrian on the Star Radio website.

Ally Bull

Presenter first broadcast

Ally presented Banbury People each weeknight at 6pm during the first Banbury FM trial broadcast.   Each programme featured two interviews with interesting local individuals with a story to tell.

Ally’s engaging, conversational style always got the best out of the guests, be they a politician, musician, business person or charity worker.   She always managed to hold down the general programme ethos as well, that Banbury People gave you an insight into the lives of the people that make up the North Oxfordshire community.

Daniel Cass

Project Manager

Dan had responsibility within the Milestone Group for developing its radio interests.   He worked together  with Andy Green to bring the trial broadcasts to life.   When Andy joined Milestone full time Dan became his boss!

One of Dan's biggest tasks was writing our licence application to Ofcom.   Until the Banbury FM application all Dan's previous submissions had been successful.  

In the years that followed Banbury FM Dan played a vital role within the Milestone Group in the disposal of their radio and TV assets.

Today Dan runs Ultra Consultancy and is working with leading experts to bring local television services to key areas of the UK, including Oxfordshire.

See the Ultra Consultancy website here.

Brian Chester

Director

Brian joined the Banbury FM board after taking on the role of Finance Director of Milestone Group PLC, in June 2003.

Brian was previously the Finance Director of the Fusion Radio Group, helping to oversee the group’s original acquisitions and subsequent merger with Milestone Radio.

Prior to joining Fusion Radio, Brian was engaged in a senior financial role in a number of companies including Philips Electronics, Polygram Video, MEL Crawley and Bourne Publicity.

Today Brian works for FD Solutions as the Client Finance Director.

Dale Collins

Presenter on first broadcast

Dale's break into radio was as part of the Banbury FM team in 2001, presenting the weekday 10am-2pm programme. During the broadcast Dale's talents were spotted by the UKRD Group Programme Controller Phil Angell and Dale was hired for the breakfast programme at The Falcon in Stroud.

Twelve months later and Dale moved to 107.1 Rugby FM where he took over the breakfast show.   At the start of 2004 Dale joined GWR station Hereward FM in Peterborough, but returned to Rugby FM as Programme Manager and Breakfast Presenter at the end of the year.

Dale left Rugby Fm to join the CN Group to launch Touch FM in Banbury in February 2006.

In 2009 Dale was one of the people behind the management buyout of Touch FM and subsequent relaunch as Banbury Sound.   When Banbury Sound was purchased by Quidem in October 2010 Dale left the station.

Simeon Courtie

Presenter on second broadcast

Sim’s broadcasting career started in 1990 at BBC Northampton. From there he went on to present The Ozone on BBC 2, and was the face of BBC 1 afternoons for a couple of years with his sidekick Otis the Aardvark. Subsequently Simeon presented various programmes for Children’s ITV.

From his home in Banbury Sim writes TV formats and comedy scripts and also presents radio shows for BFBS Radio 1, the radio station that broadcasts all over the world for the British Forces and their families.

As a local person Sim was keen to join the Banbury FM team for our second broadcast.    Sim's weekend show featured big competitions, the Banbury Brainbuster, and loads of fun.

Most recently Sim, his wife and family have taken a year out to travel the world.

You can follow Sim on Twitter here.

Andy Craig

Director

Andy was a founding director of Banbury FM alongside Andy Green.   Andy was the Chief Executive of the Milestone Group (latterly Milestone plc) who supported and financed the Banbury FM licence bid and provided the infrastructure for both trial broadcasts.

Andy’s experience in professional broadcasting meant he was well known in north Oxfordshire having spent nine years as the main anchor of Central TV’s news and current affairs programming.

Milestone plc owned other radio licences including neighbouring Rugby FM and Passion 107.9 in Oxford, in addition to Six TV in Oxford and newpaper titles.

Today Andy is the Executive Chairman of Overtis.

You can read Andy's biography on the Overtis website.

John Craven

Director, Presenter

John Craven is a household name across the UK. He has presented the BBC programme “Countryfile” since 1989 and before that was the face of John Craven's Newsround and a key part of the Swap Shop team with Noel Edmonds.

John gained the OBE for services to broadcasting in the Millennium Honours List and is a keen supporter of local charities, including the Katherine House Hospice amongst others.

Despite spending much of his career on television John has also broadcast on BBC Radio 2.

He has received two BAFTAs and the TV Times Award.

John lives in North Oxfordshire with his wife and family and broadcast of both of Banbury FM's trial broadcasts.  His programme utilised John's impressive black book of celebrity phone numbers. He put that to use every Saturday morning to call up star guests exclusively. Guests in 2002 included Countdown's Richard Whitely, authoress Jilly Cooper and actor Christopher Timothy!

John became a director of Banbury FM after the first trial broadcast.

Read John's page on the BBC website here.

Bob Dainty

Presenter on second broadcast

Bob was Banbury FM's man with an encyclopaedic knowledge of music.   As one of Banbury FM's more ardent supporters during the station's first trial broadcast he jumped at the chance of joining the team in 2002.

Bob was born in the Midlands and moved to Banbury over 30 years ago where he runs his own carpet fitting business. Dainty's Dozen - a selection of Bob's favourite oldies - aired on Sunday evenings.

After Banbury FM's broadcast Bob was approached by other groups to help them win the licence, but he remained loyal to the station that he believed should have been awarded the licence for the town - Banbury FM.

After Banbury FM Bob decided to join Banbury Hospital's Radio Horton.   He also hosts sections on BBC Radio Oxford's Bringing On Back The Good Times series.

Today Bob's love of the local sixties music scene has led him to organise some hugely successful revival concerts in the town.

Olly Davies

Presenter

Olly got his big break with Banbury FM in 2001 whilst still studying A levels at Banbury School and returned to the station for the second trial broadcast in 2002.

In addition to presenting Banbury FM's evening programmes at the weekend Olly also wrote and played the music for Banbury FM's news, weather and travel themes, and provided "into imaged" songs for the station.

Today Olly is a shop manager from high street retailer Next.

Ian Downs

Presenter on first broadcast

Witney born Ian was a popular voice in North Oxfordshire, having previously presented radio programmes on Fox FM.   At the time of Banbury FM's 2001 trial broadcast he was the Programme Controller and breakfast show host at West Berkshire’s Kick FM.   Ian showed his support for Banbury FM by hosting the Sunday lunchtime jukebox.

Since Banbury FM's trails Ian has worked at various other radio stations in the UK including Star 106.6 in Slough, 96.4 The Eagle in Guildford and Star Radio in Bristol and Weston Super Mare, as well as presenting various programmes around the UKRD network (where Phil Angell is the Group Programme Controller)..

In 2008 Ian returned to Kick FM in Newbury working for Andy Green, who was then running the station at the time.   Ian left Kick FM in the summer of 2009 and now hosts the breakfast show on Jack FM in Bristol - the fastest growing Jack FM in the UK!

You can read more about Ian and Jack FM on their website.

Nick Duxbury

Presenter first broadcast

Nick from Hook Norton hosted a local bands segment within Dave Taylor's evening show during the first trial broadcast.   As a fan of the local music scene, Nick offered his services coordinating, researching and helping present an interview and the Gig Guide.

At the time Nick was studying A levels and looking for a career in music journalism.

Tim Eustace

Company Secretary

Tim was the man who made sure all the board minutes were up-to-date and all the company forms were duly completed.

Tim, as a Chartered Secretary in Private Practice, still provides company secretarial support to companies today.

Pete Gardner

Presenter, Producer, Assistant Station Manager

Pete launched his radio career during Banbury FM's first broadcast in the autumn of 2001, having just completed a degree in Media Production at Luton University.   As well as presenting the drivetime programme Pete produced several features, including Kids Corner which was heard on the breakfast show.

Pete was back on Banbury FM in 2002 showing off his culinary skills (or lack of!) once again in the Banbury FM kitchen. (Listeners tried to identify what he was attempting to cook to win a quality meal for two.)

Between Banbury FM 2001 and Banbury FM 2002 Pete worked at several other radio stations and was the senior producer on a national chart show.   He also ran a trial broadcast in Andover to help them get their own radio station.

Pete has since moved into the legal world and is a solicitor, still based in Banbury.   He now has a young family - let's hope he's not responsible for the cooking!

Andy Green

Station Manager, Director, Presenter

Andy Green founded Banbury FM with Andy Craig from the Milestone Group back in 2001.   Andy ran the station's two trial broadcasts and presented the breakfast show with Nikki Kirk.  As the station manager he selected the music you heard and was responsible for the all station's output and compliance with broadcast rules.

Andy’s first radio experience came at the age of thirteen on Banbury's Hospital Radio Horton. From there he joined Fox FM in 1991 where he presented every show on the station.   Andy left Fox in 2001 to set up Banbury FM.

After the first Banbury FM broadcast Andy joined the Milestone Group where he ran several successful campaigns to bring local radio stations to communities.   Subsequently he became the Group Programme Controller with responsibility for Milestone's six radio stations, and latterly their local TV output.

Late in 2006 Andy joined Tindle Radio as the Regional Programme Controller and then Regional Station Manager for Tindle Radio South, where their radio stations flourished under his expert guidance.

In 2009 Andy set up Andy Green Media where he provides services to a number of radio and television providers.

You can read more about Andy on his website.

You can listen to Andy on Banbury FM here:

Jim Green

Presenter on second broadcast

Jim had worked on various radio projects over the years when he joined the Banbury FM team in 2002.

Jim introduced the Sunday night alternative to other radio stations, with a chance to hear great rock classics from the past forty years, although Jim claimed to be too young to remember most of them!

After Banbury FM Jim continued to dabble in radio, including some work on Kick FM in West Berkshire.   His wife Louise also tried her hand in radio - we're not sure about their children.   Jim is also famous for his discos in West Sussex where he now lives.

Stewart Green

Presenter on first broadcast

Stewart landed his first ever experience of professional radio with Banbury FM's first trial broadcast, where he hosted the late show.

Stewart had been a stalwart of Banbury Hospital's Radio Horton for a number of years when he joined the Banbury FM team.   During the day Stewart worked for Cherwell District Council.

After learning about commercial radio from his Banbury FM experience Stewart broadcast on another trial project before returning to his roots and working hard to ensure the continued success of Radio Horton.

Today Stewart is the Radio Horton Station Manager.

You can read more about Radio Horton on their website.

Richard Griffin

Presenter on second broadcast

Richard was the housewive's choice on Banbury FM daytime with his Banbury Challenge quiz becoming the talk of town.

Richard cut his broadcasting teeth on hospital radio in 1999, and then went to university in York to study TV Production. Here he spent most of his spare time at the University radio station, presenting their weekend breakfast show, which with a student audience didn’t start ‘til 10am.

Whilst at university he joined BBC Radio York to work as a techie, but ended up Producer on the Saturday Sports Show and eventually the Late-night Phone-in, on stations across the North East.

After uni he joined Rugby FM, Banbury FM’s sister station in Warwickshire, to work as a Journalist and Presenter.

In the spring of 2003 having gained vital experience with Banbury FM, Richard joined Stratford-Upon-Avon's The Bear 102 for a full time position as a presenter.

Richard left The Bear at the end of 2005 to join TLRC owned Yorkshire Coast Radio where he remains today.

You can read more about Richard on the Yorkshire Coast Radio website.

Alex Grout

Presenter on first broadcast

Alex was based in Buckingham at the time of Banbury FM's first trial broadcast.   As a part time presenter on various radio stations in the south of England inckuding West Berkshire’s Kick FM, he was keen to be part of the radio station that is close to where he lives.

Alex can still be heard on the radio from time to time.   Recently he has been involved with the trial broadcasts of Thame FM.

Kate Horler

News team on second broadcast

Kate was a member of the news team for Banbury FM's second trial broadcast.   She helped compile the news for the station and presented some of the bulletins, including the extended Banbury FM at 1 news programme.

After gaining her degree Kate was looking to get involved in an exciting project ahead of a trip abroad.   She joined Banbury FM where her duties included reading news bulletins, researching and writing stories, conducting interviews and creating audio packages.  

Kate also helped collecting audio for Banbury FM’s Network Neighbourhood.

After Banbury FM Kate went to America, where sought film work as an extra.

Shaun Jardine

Chairman

Shaun was a huge help in getting the Banbury FM project started.   Initially he made time available at the Banbury Business Breakfast Club so the station could be promoted to local businesses.   During the first trial broadcast Shaun was an on air guest and even stored the prizes to make the broadcast studios a little less cramped!

After the first trial Shaun agreed to join the board and soon took on the role of Chairman.   He helped recruit other directors for the board and was instrumental in the submission of our application to Ofcom.

Shaun is well known as one of north Oxfordshire’s most prolific networkers. He is Chairman of the Banbury Business Breakfast Club and a partner in Brethertons Solicitors, which has branches in Banbury and Rugby.  

Visit the Bretherton's website here.

Visit the Banbury Business Breakfast Club website here.

Martyn Jordan

Presenter

Martyn had worked on various short term radio projects when he joined the team at Banbury FM to present the Saturday afternoon sports programme with Dave Boxer during both of our trial broadcasts.

After Banbury FM Martyn  was asked to host a weekend show at 106.8 Time FM in South-East London and North-West Kent.

Today Martyn continues with his day job as a teacher.

Nikki Kirk

News Editor

Nikki was a key member of the Banbury FM team and showed a huge amount of commitment to the station.   She ran the Banbury FM newsroom and oversaw the station's team of journalists and volunteers.   She was also a key part of Andy Green's breakfast show and had to suffer the "banter" and Andy's amorous advances every morning!

Nikki has lived in North Oxfordshire since her teenage years.   She attended the Warriner School in Bloxham before moving into further education.   It was during this time she became a volunteer at Oxygen FM in Oxford, and subsequently returned to that station for six months further work experience.   Nikki then left journalism to follow other career paths and at the time of Banbury FM's first trail broadcast was managing a restaurant alongside working all day for Banbury FM.

By the time of Banbury FM's second trial broadcast Nikki was running a publishing company at the same time as running the newsroom.   For the second trial Nikki had a team of journalists working for her offering a professional and local news service to rival the very best full time local radio stations.   This included a one hour lunch time news programme, extended evening news, and fully local bulletins throughout the day.

Nikki's hard work built up excellent relationships between Banbury FM and many local companies, organisations and charities.

Today, Nikki is working in Public Relations.

You can listen to Nikki on Banbury FM here:

Adrienne Lawler

Director

Adrienne joined Banbury FM's board of directors after the first trial broadcast.   She was actively involved in promoting the station and worked with the on-air team providing local content.

From a background of news-reading at the BBC and Sky, Adrienne worked as a freelance presenter and producer for international conferences, corporate videos, award ceremonies and seminars. She was well known for presenting ITV1’daytime programme, Everything Must Go.   Her charity work in the local area was well known.

Today Adrienne runs the successful good news network iNewU.

See the iNewsU website here.

Kirsty Leahy

Presenter second broadcast

Kirsty joined the Banbury FM team in 2002, keen to be part of the biggest radio station the town has ever known! Prior to moving into radio Kirsty worked in a ticket office and had been involved with hospital radio in Leamington.   After working with Andy Green on another trial broadcast Kirsty joined Banbury FM to present the late show as Banbury's very own "Night Nurse", dealing with the late night calls and playing some great love songs.

After Banbury FM Kirsty landed a job as a presenter at Fusion 107.9 in Oxford. Early in 2003 she took over the breakfast show when the station was relaunched as Passion 107.9.   She later moved to the midday programme.

Kirsty also has a TV career having presented on SIX TV - The Oxford Channel.   She also staring in the ITV1 programme "Desperately Seeking Sheila".

In July 2006 Kirsty left Passion 107.9 to join Touch FM in Coventry for an evening programme networked across their Coventry and Stratford stations.   Having moved around the schedule several times Kirsty still remains on-air with Touch FM.

Today Kirsty lives in the midlands and recently took over Banbury Sound's breakfast programme from the station's studios near Kenilworth.

Angharad Lloyd

News reporter and producer on second broadcast

Angharad applied to join the Banbury FM team after completing a degree in American Studies and finishing a year studying Film and Media at the University of Utah.   She had also worked for the BBC’s Millennium Project team.

As a Sulgrave girl, Angharad stated in her application she wished to join the Banbury FM team “to become more acquainted with the role companies such as Banbury FM will play in promoting cutting edge creative entertainment for local listeners”.   How could we refuse!

Angharad was the main person behind our Network Neighbourhood programme, visiting all areas of the Banbury FM patch to meet local people, microphone in hand.   She was our main reporter on the afternoon major local news broke of the Alcan plant closure, and worked on news stories throughout the month.   Angharad was also the main Banbury FM Business News reporter.

Since Banbury FM Angharad landed a job at Capital Radio, London, and worked on projects such as Capital's Party In The Park.    After that she moved to TV as a producer and worked various Saturday night entertainment shows like Strictly Come Dancing, Gladiators and several lottery quiz shows.    Currently Angharad works for Shine TV.   And congratulations from the rest of the Banbury FM team as Angharad recently got married.

John Mann

Engineer

John from Hook Norton, is an accomplished engineer, having worked for the Banbury factory of Menvier until it closed.   Married, with two children, John has lived in North Oxfordshire all his life.

During the first trial John attended an emergency call-out to fix a transmitter problem and get the station back on-air quickly.   John's role expanded during the second trial when he provided all engineering work for the Banbury FM team, including the installation of power supplies, studio wiring, transmission links and broadcast coverage.

Anna Marks

Sales Manager

Anna joined the Milestone Group to work on Banbury FM’s first RSL in July 2001.   The financial viability of Banbury FM was proven in no small part due to Anna's hard work persuading local companies to advertise on the station.

After our first trial Anna worked on a number of similar projects for the Milestone Group before returning to Banbury in 2002.   After this Anna worked at some Milestone's full time radio stations.

It what is testament to Anna's abilities and the strength of Banbury FM Anna was subsequently appointed by another trial group in Banbury to work on their local sales.

Today Anna still lives in Oxfordshire with her young family.

Kevin Price

News team second broadcast

Kevin joined the Banbury FM team for our second trial broadcast as a member of the news team.   Pete Gardner gave Kev a quick introduction to the hot spots of Banbury nightlife and he hasn't looked back since!

Kevin had gained a degree in journalism at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design just before joining Banbury FM.   He was one of the station’s main journalists, researching and writing stories, creating audio packages, reading bulletins throughout the day, and as the anchor of Banbury FM at One and Banbury FM at Six.

The Banbury FM experience gave Kevin a real insight into the power of news on truly local radio stations, and the importance local people place on hearing about what is happening in their community.   After Banbury FM Kevin gained a full time job as a journalist at Fusion 107.3 in Lewisham and subsequently took time out for a round the world trip.

Kevin now works for the Heart radio network in Kent as a Creative Director.

James Pope

Promotions Manager

James headed up Banbury FM's promotions team out and about across our area.

At the time of Banbury FM's first trial broadcast James was a studying A levels at Banbury School.   He applied to work for Banbury FM hoping to gain man management skills and work experience.

James coordinated a team of volunteers for promotional activities prior to, and during Banbury FM’s broadcast period.   The Banbury FM promotions team appeared at various locations across the area and helped Banbury FM achieve over 6,000 letters of support.

After Banbury FM James went to University and then became a radio sales executive in Oxford and Newbury.   He then moved into the banking industry, initially moving to Germany to become a stock broker.   Today he works for Blackrock in the City of London.

Matthew Robinson

Studio assistant second broadcast

Bloxham lad Matthew had just started a Media Studies course at North Oxfordshire College at the time of Banbury FM second trial.   He attended the presentation given by Banbury FM’s Andy Green and Pete Gardner and asked if he could join the team to gain valuable experience.

Matthew helped out collating sports information from local clubs at the weekend, and dealt with general public enquiries.   He also completed some promotional work for the station.

George Taylor

Presenter on second broadcast

George was just 16 at the time of Banbury FM's 2002 broadcast and the youngest member of the team.

Having worked with Andy Green at another trial radio station George jumped at the chance of being part of the Banbury FM team.   George had shown his commitment to radio since the age of 14 when he volunteered at Kix 96 and Mercia Sound in Coventry.   Banbury FM gave George one of his first experiences of presenting a live show - he presented the evening show Monday to Thursday, and the jukebox on a Sunday lunchtime.  

George was also a very tallented producer and made some of the imaging you heard on-air.

After Banbury FM 2002 George went on to host a weekly programme at 107.1 Rugby FM.   In March 2003 George joined Mercia FM in Coventry in a full-time production and on-air role and later moved to Trent FM in Nottingham.

Subsequently George took a production role abroad before returning to the UK to work for PureTonic where he wrote music and produced imaging packages for radio stations around the world .   You might even hear some of George's work on Radio 1!   In 2011 PureTonic merged with international production company Reelworld.   Within the new company George has been promoted to the role of "Creative Director for Production Vault CHR".   The boy done well!

You can read more about PureTonic on their website.

Jo Thoenes

Presenter on first broadcast

At the time of Banbury FM's first broadcast Jo was a member of the team at Oxford based station Fusion 107.9. She joined the Banbury FM team to present the Banbury Weekly Countdown on Sunday afternoon's.   This was a forerunner and trial of the Most Wanted Chart which was subsequently launched on a number of radio stations across the UK.

Subsequently Jo became one half of the breakfast team at Oxford based FOX FM.   After this Jo took over the Fox FM drivetime programme before leaving the station to freelance at stations like BBC Radio Oxford and Touch FM.

Jo then joined BBC Radio Oxford to host the afternoon programme.   Jo remains with the BBC in Oxford today.

See Jo's page on the BBC website here.

David Walley

Director

David joined Banbury FM's board of directors after the first trial broadcast.   As an proactive and successful local business professional David was an important member of the board of directors..

At the time of the Banbury FM trial broadcasts David was the Chief Executive of the Arena Event Services Group, the UK’s largest outdoor event services company, which he had launched.   

David had spent 6 years in the Army after leaving school, and then spent a number of years in Denmark where he worked as a presenter of the Danish equivalent of “Top of the Pops”!   David had been a previous winner of Banbury Boss of the Year and Banbury Business of the Year Awards.

Having sold the Arena Group, David purchased the well known local company ARB in January 2010 which is now part of 360° Creative Event Services

See the 360° Creative Event Services website here.

Cat Warner

News assistant

As a student at North Oxfordshire College, Cat was studying for an HND in Media Production and applied to join the Banbury FM's second trial for the experience this project would give her.

Cat’s main role within the news team included locating and researching stories, setting up interviews, writing copy and editing audio.   She also dealt with any enquiries from the general public at the Banbury FM studios, and kept a photographic diary of the month’s broadcast.

Tom Wilson

Engineer, Tech-Op

Tom had been a vital member of the hospital Radio Horton team for many years - as the station engineer without Tom the station could not have broadcast to the patients.   Tom volunteered to help at Banbury FM to experience the world of professional radio, but preferred a behind the scenes role.

Tom may have been "off-air" but he undertook many essential jobs.   During the first trial broadcast Tom operated the equipment for both John Craven and Stewart Green.   During the second broadcast he was back working with John Craven again and also helped Bob Dainty with his programme.

And when the wind and rain caused problems with our news satellite feed it was Tom on the studio roof facing the conditions trying to fix it.

Today Tom is a partner in Hitech Audio and Visual Services.