Nick Dent
Personal information
- About me
Nick has transistors for vital organs and radio waves in his veins! A true `radio-head’ Nick’s interest in radio began when listening to Junior Choice on Long Wave in the early 70s. From a passion for the Great 208 with an earphone under the bed clothes to listening to the early Independent Local Stations Nick’s passion for radio gathered apace. Nick’s first taste of radio was aged just 16 when he presented for Truro Hospital Radio and managed (after much persuasion) to get a job reclaiming spools of tape and washing cars for BBC Radio Cornwall. With a foot in the door (and occasionally the bucket) Nick made himself as indispensable as possible to the presenters on the station responsible for gallons of coffee and standing in the middle of muddy fields holding cables in the interests of quality broadcasting!
His keenness didn’t go unnoticed and after 3 years of grubby boots but soft hands Nick got his radio `break’ taking over as the weekend continuity announcer and technical guru. He trained and co-presented with Justin Leigh (now on BBC Spotlight) and was involved with presenting into programmes, reading news items and from `out and about’ in the Radio Car.
Nick moved to take over as Saturday night announcer and newsreader for all the BBC Local Radio stations in the West and South (9 in all) working for BBC Radio Devon. Sadly after 18 months the BBC decided to move the work elsewhere. Nick then spent 18 years in the radio wilderness before finding his passion re-kindled when he joined The Source in 2010.
Nick says “Radio is a wonderful medium and it’s the most exciting there is, able to interact instantly with its audience and allowing everyone to take part. I’m delighted to be part of The Source team and look forward to helping strengthen community radio as a force for good in Penryn and Falmouth.”
History
- Member for
- 1 year 40 weeks
These are the programmmes produced by this presenter
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| Source Sounds Remembered | Join Nick Dent for a musical trip down memory lane every Saturday morning from 8-11. Source Sounds Remembered features the best charted hits from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s as well as those songs that you'd thought you'd never hear again. As well as looking back we look forward and bring you up to date with the travel news at a quarter past the hour, the weekend weather at half past the hour and the full marine forecast at a quarter to the hour. There's your chance to test your musical... |
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| Bloopers ... Outtakes ... Yes - it's the Source Sounds Remembered Christmas Tape 2011! | When things go wrong at Source Towers we often have a recording running ... so join us for the funniest of our mistakes this Saturday 31st December during the Souce Sounds Remembered New Years Eve Special from 8-Noon. Every song on the Show will be a Number One Hit from the last 50 years, and at 10 O'clock we'll be repeating our Christmas Tape playing the very funniest out-takes from what has been a really memorable 2011. So join Roger Brown and I for a bumper 4-hour Source Sounds Remembered... | |
| Source Sounds Remembered starts this Saturday! | Your local station The Source 96.1 FM is about to take you back in time! Smooth Saturday with Nick Dent has changed to `Source Sounds Remembered'. Nick will still be here with all the usual features, the weather and marine forecast, Roger Brown with his lighter look at the Saturday papers and the Think Link, but the music will be the best of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. So as well as bringing you up to date you can enjoy a nostalic musical journey through time and stir those memories of... | |
| Source Sounds Remembered starts this Saturday! | Your local station The Source 96.1 FM is about to take you back in time! Smooth Saturday with Nick Dent has changed to `Source Sounds Remembered'. Nick will still be here with all the usual features, the weather and marine forecast, Roger Brown with his lighter look at the Saturday papers and the Think Link, but the music will be the best of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. So as well as bringing you up to date you can enjoy a nostalic musical journey through time and stir those memories of... |