Jim Hawkins (radio presenter)

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Jim Hawkins
Born1962 (age 62–63)
Essex, England
OccupationBroadcaster
EmployerBBC Radio Shropshire
Awards Sony Silver Award, 2002

Jim Hawkins (born 1962 [1] [2] ) is a BBC radio presenter.

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Biography

Personal life

Hawkins was born in Essex and brought up there and in Warwickshire, England. [3] He now lives in Shropshire. [4]

Career

Hawkins' broadcasting career began on a student radio station at Warwick University. [5] He worked for independent local radio station Mercia Sound from 1981 to 1983. [6] He joined BBC Radio 4 in 1984, writing and presenting the News Stand programme. [7] Hawkins has worked for several commercial and BBC local radio stations across the United Kingdom in various roles on both sides of the microphone, [7] [8] including spells as a producer and manager. [8]

Hawkins has also worked for a disability-rights group and as a newspaper journalist, hotel restaurant pianist, and stagehand; at one point he ran the coconut shy on Brighton Pier. [8] During his career he has interviewed notable figures including Gordon Brown, Gene Simmons and Steve Cropper. [3] [8]

Hawkins hosts a programme every weekday from 9 am to 12 noon on BBC Radio Shropshire called "Jim Hawkins in the Morning". [9] Hawkins uses Twitter to interact with listeners during the show, [5] having been persuaded to try Twitter after finding his Facebook experience disappointing. [5] Hawkins also hosts a Saturday night programme entitled "Saturday Night with Jim Hawkins" broadcast by BBC Shropshire, BBC Hereford & Worcester, and BBC Radio Stoke. The show was first broadcast on 4 April 2009 and concluded on 5 January 2013. [10] Since the December 2011 issue, on whose front cover he was pictured, [11] he has written a monthly column for Shropshire Life magazine. [12]

Awards

In 2002, Hawkins received a silver Sony Radio Academy Award in the "interactive" category, for his drive-time programme The Baldy Brothers on Century FM. [3] [7] [13] He was also highly commended at the BT sponsored Regional News and Current Affairs Awards. [7] Hawkins was one of five shortlisted for the 2006 Sony Radio Academy Speech Broadcaster of the Year Award. [14]

References

  1. ↑ "Jim Hawkins Diary". BBC Radio Shropshire. Retrieved 9 September 2009.
  2. ↑ Jim Hawkins. "Fat Losers! The BBC Shropshire Weight-Loss Weblog". BBC. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 "Jim Hawkins". BBC Radio Shropshire. Retrieved 9 September 2009.
  4. ↑ Hawkins, Jim (17 November 2011). "Introducing Jim Hawkins!". Shropshire Life. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 "Radio star bringing Shropshire together". Shropshire Star. Archived from the original on 17 July 2009. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  6. ↑ "KPS.ORG.UK Mercia Sound Presenter – Jim Hawkins". kps.org.uk. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "JIM HAWKINS is appearing in TRAMLINES as himself". Livid Film Productions. Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "BBC Hereford & Worcester feature". BBC. 12 September 2006. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  9. ↑ "Jim Hawkins Diary". BBC Radio Shropshire. Retrieved 9 September 2009.
  10. ↑ "BBC – BBC Shropshire Programmes – Saturday Night with Jim Hawkins – Episodes coming up". BBC. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
  11. ↑ "Shropshire Life Single Issues". Shropshire Life. Archant: Cover. December 2011. ISSN   1469-3941.
  12. ↑ Hawkins, Jim (December 2011). "On The Record". Shropshire Life. Archant: 23. ISSN   1469-3941.
  13. ↑ "Sony Radio Academy Awards Winners 2002". Sony Radio Academy Awards. Archived from the original on 9 January 2003. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
  14. ↑ "Sony Radio Academy Awards 2006: nominations". The Guardian . 28 March 2006. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
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