Presenters
Meet the HFM team...
| Dave Irving | |
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Dave wakes up South Leicestershire & North Northamptonshire every weekday from 7am! There's local and national news every half hour, up to the minute traffic and travel to get you to work on time, plus the "Twinspin" each hour. Test your knowledge too with "Three Of A Kind". Dave checks out what's happening across our region too and plays your morning requests. |
| Dave Smith | |
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Dave keeps you entertained from 10 till 1 every weekday. With the best music, a run down of everything going on across South Leicestershire and North Northamptonshire, it's the perfect way to spend your morning! Listen out for "Lost The Plot" along with many other great fun features. |
| Moley | |
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As well as being Station Manager, Moley welcomes guests from across South Leicestershire and North Northamptonshire into the studio to talk about topical issues affecting our community.His interviews to date number over seven hundred, ranging from Cancer support, to magic on the radio; from voluntary organisations to doing an interview in a glider! Every other Thursday Moley welcomes Leicestershire Constabulary for Harborough Beat, giving you the opportunity to put your questions to the police online or direct to the studio. Tuesdays from 1.30 he interviews HFMs gardening expert Angela Holland, giving the listener some great gardening tips and inviting you to ask Angela any gardening questions. Together with the best music for your weekday lunchtime, and the legendary Brainteaser, it's the perfect way to relax while eating your sandwich! |
| Richard Oliff | |
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Join Richard from 3pm every weekday for the HFM Drive Show. "I like to think of the ‘Drive Show’ as more of an interactive experience than anything else. Along with all of the usual features generally associated with a late afternoon-early evening programme like traffic and travel, news, weather,community information and updates, the show is all about having fun and playing the music that you want to hear. There is the‘album of the week’ feature which is not necessarily just new music. It can be an album chosen by you: your favourite sounds. Then there is the ‘Where Am I?’ anagram giving the show’s esteemed ‘Braniacs’ and regular listeners an opportunity to exercise their ‘grey-matter’. Every Wednesday I’m joined by Paul McCartney’s stepmother Angie McCartney for ‘Dick’s Domestic Tips’ Many well known household-name celebrities choose to be a guest on my show. It’s all about having a good time. I think it’s wonderful that local people can interact with others who may be listening live from anywhere in the world via the HFM website. Truly local radio is all about broadcasting totally from within the local community: being a part of that community and based in that community. In other words investing in that community. Anything else is simply not local radio.”
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| Chris Jones | |
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Chris Jones, HFM's Programme Manager eases you through your Sunday morning with a good deal of fun with his Sunday Bit In The Middle. It's on from 11am and takes you through till 2pm. Tune in for the Mystery voice, Croon at Noon and his frequent guest appearance from pub singer Christopher Clutterbucket. Chris loves interaction from the listener and the show always has a large amount of requests, dedications and friendly banter between the listener and Chris. You can often hear Chris on HFM News as he goes out and about reporting on the top stories of the day affecting South Leicestershire. |
| Nick Shaw | |
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Nick is the voice of HFM news during the daytime during the week and occasionally at weekends! He looks after HFM's news centre to ensure you're kept up to date with all the news that matters to South Leicestershire. You can also hear Nick on Sunday nights, with HFM's '7 Day Catch-up' as he looks back at what's been going on here at HFM and across South Leicestershire during the week. |
| djbraine | |
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Join me from 4 till 7 on Sundays for my Rock Soul & Blues Show, featuring songs from the fifties to the present day, with some you won't have heard for a long time and some you may never have heard! Also join me on Saturdays for the 2 til 5 Show, a mix of music, sport, and local news. |
| Sean Smith | |
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Sean brings his unique style to HFM on a Tuesday night from 7pm! Listen out for the infamous "Tuesday Titter" and "Smooch with Smithers", along with great music and cheerful chat. |
| Will Challoner | |
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Join Will Challoner every Friday evening from 7pm for the Friday Evening Show. Will keeps you up to date with the latest showbiz gossip, as well as playing you some great music, including even more of the music which you want to hear to take you into the weekend. Between 7pm and 8pm there's Will's Things That Make You Go Hmm? It's guaranteed to get you thinking! From 8pm you can also pit your wits against Will's 'No Brainer' Guess the No Brainer, and win the glory!
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| Terry Hawke | |
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Terry Hawke takes over South Leicestershire's airwaves from 10pm on Saturdays with the “Hawke Chill Out Sessions”. The show isn’t purely chilled out sounds, it’s more of a showcase of musical genres that are designed to stimulate as well as bliss-out the both listener and the musician’s mind, body and soul. Terry plays some of the best in “Space Rock”, “Ambience”, “Electronica”, plus oodles of deeply chilled sounds. You’ll hear bands such as “Hawkwind”, “Porcupine Tree”, “Ozric Tentacles”, “Tangerine Dream”, “Klaus Schulze”, “Ashra”, Michael Schroeder”, “Aes Dana”, “Cell”, “System 7”, “Eloy”, “Ian Van Dahl”, “Ultrabeat”, “Monster Magnet”, “Pendulum” and many, many others. The show always includes exclusive studio interviews and phone-link guests with varying musicians from across the globe! His show is now internationally accepted as THE only local radio station show in the UK that promotes this specialist musical genre. Terry keeps in close contact with his USA audience via his music consultants Steve-O and Archie Patterson. Terry also presents HFM's ‘Through The Night’ with his specially produced "Night Hawke", a monthly show full of “Techno”, “Dance”, “Trance” and “Deeply Chilled-Out” sounds to bliss you into Sunday morning. Terry often combines the ‘Hawke Chill Out Sessions’ with the ‘Night Hawke’; so he’s here to entertain you from 10pm Saturday through till 8am Sunday! He also produces and presents a bi-monthly show dedicated to “Big-Band”, “Bop and Swing”, called "In The Mood". It features the music of Glenn Miller, Artie Show, Tommy Dorsey, Don Lusher, and many others. His special interview guests usually include John Miller, the nephew of the great Glenn Miller; and Debbie Curtis of the “The Debbie Curtis Radio Big Band”. The show always invites listener’s to ring in, or e-mail their own experiences, or their tales from the WWII era; and this interaction is growing in popularity! Terry also hosted 102.3 HFM’s very first “Hawke Chill Out Summer Solstice” on the actual Summer Solstice of 2009 from the Studio 1 at HFM. It was a great success with phone-link interviews directly with fans attending such festivals as ‘Stonehenge’, and with fans witnessing the sunrise in the UK and the USA!
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| Mark & Nina | |
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Join Mark & Nina on a Saturday live from 5pm for 2 whole hours of hits from the 60's right up to the present day. There is also a celebrity interview every now and then, 'What's the TV Program?' and 'Who Wants to Know Some Useless Facts-on-Air' features. Mark and Nina are also often joined by Richard Bransby. That's all mixed in with Mark and Nina’s lively banter and laughter!! |
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| Liz Osborne | |
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Catch Liz as she covers occasional shows. Tune in to hear the best music, banter and loads of fun! |
| Adam Wilson | |
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Adam can be heard on alternate Tuesday’s with the Quiet Revolution. The show comprises Adam’s hand-built playlist of americana, alt-country, folk/roots, world and blues along with live acoustic sessions and interviews.
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| Darren Harte | |
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Join me each Wednesday for two hours of conversation with guests from the world of music and entertainment, both local and from across the UK. I'll also be playing songs that you have probably not heard in years from CD and old vinyl! |
| Simon Parry | |
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Simon gets up bright and early every Saturday to kick off your weekend in style with the best in music and (hopefully) some laughs to start your weekend. From 9 we have an hour of Non Stop Number Ones where every song is a chart topper!" Hear him between 7-10am |
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| Soozie Max | |
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Join Soozie with Rory Rattray or Kev Lidgard on 102.3 HFM every Wednesday evening from 7pm until 10pm. They will chat about anything and everything and play some great music too. You'll also hear Soozie at various other times on-air! |
| Dave Charles | |
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Join Dave Charles from 7 till 10pm every Sunday for three hours of great music and chat, featuring local musicians performing live acoustic sessions, as well as interviews with established bands from the local, national and international entertainment scene. If you would like your band, act or organisation to feature on the show, just drop Dave an email, dave.charles@harboroughfm.co.uk or via his myspace site. |
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| Keith Williams | |
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Spend every other Saturday evening with Keith between 7-10 here on HFM. Whether you're heading out, staying in, or doing a bit of both, make sure you're listening from 7pm. keith plays a great selection of music from all decades. He also likes to play some of the more unusual tracks (sometimes from vinyl record) so you may hear a song that takes you way back. |
| Gavin Samways | |
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Join Gavin bright and early every weekday as he kicks off the day across South Leicestershire and North Northamptonshire! Between 5am and 7am he'll play some great music, keep you updated with everything that's happening locally, and tell you what's in store on the Breakfast Show! Set your alarm clocks for Early Breakfast with our Gav! |
| Tom Lathom | |
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Tom is the presenter and producer of the Dubstep Show currently on Monday evenings between ten and midnight. The 2 hour slot showcases talented dubstep artists from around the world. If you are an up and coming producer of dubstep/ electronic/ alternative music you can send your demo cd to Tom at the Fernie house address. |
| Paul Wright | |
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Paul Wright brings his famous 60's Sunday show to 102.3 HFM. There will be 3 hours of instant nostalgia dished up by Paul every Sunday morning from 8am, when he takes a snapshot of the weekly happenings in the world of pop music cropping up in that crucial double decade of 1953-1973. With a wealth of musical experience as a drummer to tap into that spans some 40 plus years and another 20 plus spent in the world of radio there will be loads of memories both locally & nationally to tickle your taste buds in the "60's Sunday". If you the listener have any of your own local musical memories or otherwise that you can recall please contact me at the station and I will endeavour to weave them into the show! |
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| Graham Beeby | |
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Listen out for Graham every Saturday morning from 10am until Midday. As well as playing your weekend requests, Graham will bring you a couple of light-hearted teasers too.
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| Graham Wright | |
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Graham Wright has been a presenter and journalist on professional radio stations in the East Midlands since 1986 and loves his occasional stints on Harborough FM. He is a great fan of community radio and says he hasn't heard any station do it better than HFM. He can usually be found researching, compiling and reading the news when Nick Shaw is on holiday - or has lost his voice! You can read more about Graham via his personal web site, www.grahamwright.org.uk |
| Kev Steptoe | |
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You can catch Kev on air covering various time slots. Keep an eye on the schedules to see when Kev's on next. Check out his Facebook/Twitter Page for more info. (search THESTEPTOESHOW) His favourite music is pretty much any style, but includes Dance, Rock, pop,& classical. |
| Dani Rust | |
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If you like ROCK, and New Jersey Rock in particular, then you are in for a treat with Danis' shows. To catch her regularly on HFM, check out our Who's On page. |
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