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Mark entered service in the 1960s and his formative years as far as music goes were the late 70s and the 80s.

Sometimes living in the past has its distinct advantages especially where the Erewash Sound 80s show is concerned as Mark capably takes you back to that decade and would have you believe it has not really gone away as he plays a wide selection of his heritage tunes on the wireless as well as regaling one and all with suitably period phrases!

Mark’s first appearance on local radio was during the 1999 PRIDE-FM broadcast in Derby - during his first show the finishing touches were being put to the studio!  He has continued to broadcast on every 28 day airing by the radio group since then and quite notably managed to have a go on just about every show during the final 2002 broadcast - his main slot being three weeks on the breakfast show (“I can never do that!!”).

During 2004, Mark was one of the team on the now closed Internet-only radio station CMP Radio, where he clocked up over 50 appearances of the ‘Episode’ series, including continued use of the original Bennett formula, and the obligatory phrase ‘I ‘aven’t ‘erd it f’rages’ as Mark reeled off the classics.  He still dabbles in internet radio to this very day!

Always ‘five and twenty past’ and rarely ‘twenty five past’ whatever hour it is, in real life Mark works in the railway industry mending rather ancient diesel locomotives.  In his spare time he runs classic Ford Granadas and also a 1971 built single deck Bristol bus.