Presenters and Shows

 With nearly 20 years experience in radio, Jonathan's shows are full of randomness, unpredictability and with a playlist that may or may not  have been planned before hand. Playing tracks that you might not expect to hear on the radio.

MONDAYs 2pm -3pm

Gary presents A Blast from the past. It takes you back to when everybody listened to the charts and could  instantly recognize the song and artist played, Blast will also let you  enjoy some tracks that  possibly you maybe haven't heard for a very long time.

 MONDAYS 12pm - 1pm 

 Music of The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Much More! "The Mop Tops and The King" has been on the air since December 2011! It is currently heard in The USA, The UK, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Kenya, South Africa & The Netherlands on over 60 community radio stations.   

 FRIDAY AND SATURDAYS MIDNIGHT

His  experience is impressive. His presentation is impeccable.
 

       Bob McHone has appeared on the major U.S. Radio and Television         networks and in several motion pictures and stage plays. He is a  much sought-after narrator, speaker and lecturer. In addition,  he is an accomplished writer, having authored many essays, poems   and commentaries. His forthcoming book is being viewed with   anticipation by his many U.S. fans and admirers.
 

       Bob McHone has a deep knowledge and understanding of American  Pop Standards. His extensive record library includes “a great collection of standards from Broadway shows, films, the best of         ‘Tin Pan Alley’”.
 

       Bob McHone titled his program after what he believes is better  than good.
       He says it’s “My Best To You”.  

  TUESDAYS 10am - 11am

I live in  London, UK and am a lifelong musician having picked up the guitar at 12  years old. I love all types of music and have played in many different  types of bands from blues to dance to jazz to folk. Still playing in  bands and love every minute of it. I have a special love of the Blues  and sharing that love with people on the air is a real privilege.  However, my love of all music comes across in my show in the ‘Joker in the Pack’ slot where I play a song that is not necessarily Blues but one I really love. 

The Blues Café is my venture into Radio …

Member of the IBBA (Independent Blues Broadcasters Association).

Member of the UK Blues Federation.

 WEDNESDAYS 10am and SUNDAYS 6pm

Jerry Clegg brings his half century of radio programming experience to AltUK Radio. As he as done in over 10 U.S. markets in over 50 years, Jerry currently presents this music show titled “Coffee With Clegg”. It originates in the USA, from “his Lanai, just down the road to Treasure Island in Florida, looking out over the beautiful Gulf of Mexico”. Sometimes sweet, sometimes swinging, but always cool. “Coffee With Clegg” features a great combination of the best of Jazz and chilled conversation. 

TUESDAYS 12pm - 1pm

 Norman Ross

A Founder member of Hospital Radio in Glasgow and Paisley in 1969

In 1973 joined the original team at Radio Clyde 261 as a evening producer  then as a presenter of the Saturday Breakfast Show and Visiting time on a Sunday with a audience of 360,000 listeners.

In 1985 founded an entertainment Agency and Event company then in 1990 a Wholesale distribution company.

Retiring in 2012 I returned to Hospital Radio and built a home studio to produce and syndicate programmes including “ Lets Get Together” which is a spotlight on an artist or group each week playing 15 of their popular songs and including a biographical look at their career. 

In 2018 applied and successfully received a licence from Ofcom to set up a Community Radio station.

I still present a weekly show on Hospital Radio in Glasgow and daily shows on Paisley FM in Paisley.

I also run a Training Academy to provide young people with the SQA level 5 course in Radio broadcasting as part of further achievement courses in schools

 THURSDAYS 10am - 12pm 

Paul has been creating radio shows since he was old enough to work a tape recorder. Now, some 45 years later, he feels he is dangerously close to actually being good at it.

Paul’s been a voice over artist for 30 years now, and in his new show – Reel Music, he really wants the tunes to do the talking. You’ll hear chart hits made famous by movies, TV themes from shows both new and old, and lots more.

There’ll be brain teasers, random mixes and stuff you’ve never heard before, all blended together in a show so eclectic, you’ll swear he’s making it up as he goes along.

SATURDAY 3pm - 5pm

A few months ago, I decided to try my hand at producing a syndicated radio show from home, to be made freely available, each week, to hospital and community radio stations.

I called it, 50 Years of Pop, and it's easy listening music from 1950 to 2000

 FRIDAYS - 12pm - 1pm 

The Deuce Show Featuring Matt Baker is a one hour weekly show featuring the very best in new and independent music from around the world.

Further information can be found at www.deucemusic.com 

Titus Jennings

TUESDAYS 3pm - 5pm

SATURDAY 5pm-7pm

Titus Jennings – a child of the 60s and of suburban London, though now a resident of South Wales - has been involved in radio and the music industry, in one form or another, for most of his working life.

He's been waffling away and playing his always-eclectic blend of music since the late 70s on stations such as London Hospitals Broadcasting, Kingston Hospital Radio and University Radio Bath. In the 90s and 00s he presented the Breakfast Shows on Bath’s Torch FM and Bristol's Caroline Rocks, and has been working as a presenter / producer & programme controller on a number of internet-based stations since 2005. 

Titus managed a couple of Bristol record stores in the late 80s, was a Pinnacle Records sales rep for a decade, and has also written CD, DVD and book reviews for Record Collector and other publications. He did ask us to mention that he is available for further voiceover, writing and audio production work; please send offers via his email, twitter or facebook accounts (which he plugs relentlessly).

His Retro Album Chart Show features the charts from 2 years each week, and includes the cream of the crop from each (or at least the cream of the relevant crop of his collection...).

The Titus Jennings Experience is a programme featuring a wide array of styles, some very new and some rather older, but all hand-picked and sorted in order to give your ears a real treat. As someone once put it "Top Tunes Without Boundaries".

Danny Coleman 

SATURDAY 7pm - 9pm

Danny Coleman has said, "My cousin gave me, 'Led Zeppelin IV'  for my twelfth birthday and it literally changed my life forever." The  receipt of that record was the impetus behind a career in music;  eventually leading him to become a published entertainment journalist  and radio personality. 

Faced  with having to re-invent himself after several difficult life events  including an unexpected severe back injury, he returned to the one  constant in his life: music. 

It has been said that, "Necessity is the Mother of Invention" and 'Rock On Radio'  is proof positive of that statement. Left unemployed and with his back  to the wall he returned to his past after answering an ad which read,  "Radio show hosts/ideas wanted" which had been posted by an AM station  in South Central NJ. Coleman pitched the idea of giving unsigned indie  artists a platform to be heard and "Rock On Radio" was born.

From  the program sprung a journalism career and a resurgence in gigs as well  as YouTube programs, "One More with Danny Coleman" and "What's Next? w/  Danny Coleman and Maryann Castello." 

"Rock On Radio" celebrated its 10th Anniversary on April 26, 2019 and can be found every Sunday evening at 7 p.m. EST on www.COARadio.com and in syndication throughout the week on multiple other outlets. 

Danny's "Rock On! this Week's Sound Bites" column is published weekly on www.NewJerseyStage.com and in syndication on several other sites as well. In this you will  find an interview piece with a musician, entertainer or artist and  event/venue listings for the coming week.

Music makes the world smaller, live, love and as always....ROCK ON! 

TUESDAYS 11am - 12pm

FRIDAYS 11am - 12pm 

SUNDAYS 11am - 12pm

The Flower Power Hour features music from the Golden Age of Flower Power – the 60’s and 70’s, plus like-minded tunes from the 80’s right up to today.  Album rock radio veteran Ken Rundel and his wife MJ host this ode to peace, love, and rock and roll from the George Carlin Memorial Studio in the Bamboo Peace Palace, Eureka Springs, Arkansas.  They rekindle your flower power spirit with great album rock, including deep tracks you’ve forgotten or never heard of. Plus they’ll turn you on to the best new music coming out today. Period comedy and interviews with the artists are also part of our Flower Power experience.

Ken Rundel’s extensive radio experience included early stays at WVIC, Lansing, MI, and w-4, Detroit. Next up was the legendary album-rocker, “The Zoo” in Dallas, where he was program director and had the #1 rated midday show. He’s interviewed dozens of musical icons and lists Joan Baez, Steve Miller, Nancy Wilson, Keith Reed, Willie Nelson, Don Mclean, Roger McGuinn, and Michael Brewer as some of his favorites. Other stops included Q-102, KZPS, KOAI, KRBE and KXCC in Texas, and the ABC Radio Classic Rock Network, where he was the top-rated jock. Ken’s also been an attorney, actor, and improv comedian and instructor. 

MJ grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, addicted to the heritage album rocker, KSHE-95. Her extensive knowledge of rock and roll as well as her talent as an artist gave her incredible backstage access to all the early icons of album rock, including Cat Stevens, Alvin Lee, Jon Anderson, Donovan, Randy California, Elton John, and Ian Anderson. Her beautiful, mind-blowing posters graced the dressing room doors of all the greats. 

The Flower Power Hour: Peace, Love, and Rock and Roll.

TUESDAYS 1pm - 3pm

Rock Meister

 I  bought my first single in 1969....."Sugar  Sugar" by The Archies!!! I continued collecting rather a cross section  of music until my best friend bought me "Burn" by Deep Purple for my  eighteen birthday!! That was it....I became a life long "rocker" from  then on!! 

So my first love is ROCK, as is my second & third love.....although The Carpenters are my guilty pleasure!! 
 

My  love of Radio has been going for more years than I care to  remember.....25+ years with Sunshine Radio on the Isle  of Wight & a stint on internet radio with Vectis Radio for eight  years, then I seemed to get offers to broadcast my shows all over the  place!
 

A  final thought....If someone had told me in 1969 not to collect the 6000  plus albums I collected over the decades  because you'd be able to access them & more on a mobile phone that  fits in the palm of your hand I'd have never have believed it!!! Mind, I  did enjoy collecting them!!!

SATURDAY 9pm-10pm

Pulsebeat

Pulsebeat is a weekly magazine style radio show focusing on punk, alternative, post – punk etc, new releases. It also covers re issues, tour news, bands breaking up or reforming… basically anything interesting in the previous seven days. Now in it’s 7th year it is compiled and presented by former musician Wayne Elliott from his home in Oxfordshire.   

THURSDAY 3pm - 5pm

CHRIS PITCHFORD Solid Gold Sounds

About Chris (what he’ll admit to anyway..)

Since inheriting his sister’s records when he was knee-high to a grasshopper in the 70’s, Chris knew broadcasting, music and communications was the life for him, and the more buttons, levers, switches, faders and general gadgets involved the better, with his first “DJ kit” being a Bush Cassette Recorder and a Bontempi Organ, for his 4th Birthday.

Starting with a modest collection of MFP and K-Tel compilations and a few Beatles 45s mostly more battered than your average cod, he’s never looked back. In the early days it was the joy of spending 85p for this week’s hot single from WH Smith, and still having 15p pocket money left for a small scoop of cola cubes. 

The 80’s was Chris’s “Golden Age” of music. Chris showcases his perennial penchant for 70’s and 80’s music and it’s modern contemporaries on Solid Gold Sounds, where he is just as happy with forgotten 45’s as their well known air-play and chart counterparts, so expect an eclectic and original mix of both on the programme.

The show has regular features and occasional themed specials, so if you love that wonderful era too (even if you weren’t there..) - there’s a warm welcome for all to enjoy the classics and maybe even a few you  missed !  (“Relax” T-Shirt, flairs, platform shoes, space hopper, and rubik's cube all entirely optional !) 

Chris has been a Presenter and Audio Engineer with the East Shropshire Talking Newspaper For The Blind, for the last 32 years, and a radio veteran; having started out with involvement in Community Radio in the 90’s - his last station residency being a very happy 11 month stint at Revenge FM. 

The show is now available for worldwide syndication. 

Chris is married to a published author, and when not busy editing her latest novel, he enjoys landscape photography, and can often be found alongside the dustiest box of vinyl in any remaining record shops, hoping to unearth a hidden gem, or failing that, at the nearest purveyors of unhealthy food !

Chris’s Music Trivia

First Single : Blondie - Heart of Glass

Favourite Single : Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile

Favourite Album : Genesis - Invisible Touch

Favourite 12 Inch : Queen - Breakthru

First CD : Madonna - Like A Prayer

Favourite Music Video : Adam and The Ants - Prince Charming

MONDAY 10am - 12pm 

PAUL GRAY Soul Stew

One of the few UK DJs to be on the Motown freebies list, Paul Gray worked in the California Ballroom in Dunstable on Friday and Saturday nights as well as the Devil's Den/Didoz.

He was one the stalwarts of the Cali in the early to mid 70s and helped the place gain the nickname Soul City.

Paul was also a regular DJ at Aquarius Night Club, The Greyhound in Dunstable, Truman Gateway, Disc-a-dine and Drill Hall in Luton. At the Truman Gateway he had to compete with appearances from Radio One DJs, topless dancers and drag acts.

He gave up the DJ scene in 1978, claiming he was becoming dangerous from too many late nights!

In 2002, the website dedicated to The California Ballroom came on-line which brought him and his trusty 45s back to the music business in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire. He now is part of The California Ballroom Roadshow team in Bedford and plays many gigs in Northampton for Northern Soul events.

The SOUL STEW radio show is all about the very best in Classic Soul & Motown, Northern Soul and just that touch of Disco and has been successful for a number of years now and it's always great to get feedback from listeners.

So, please do get in touch via the SOUL STEW website, www.soulstew.co.uk

or Tweet @PaulGrayDJ