About me

Hello,

Thanks for stopping by my website. I’m a Christian Journalist and Broadcaster, my main role being an Assistant to Journalist and Broadcaster, Mike Rimmer. I became Interested in the media when I was 11 years old. My mum would put on our local BBC radio station before church every Sunday morning. – Before Christian radio existed on the large scale that it does now – I remember looking at it and thinking “although it’s great to have Christian content on the radio, this isn’t the type of dynamic faith that I experience in my everyday life as a Christian, I want to see bigger and better broadcasting for Christians.” From then I was hooked on the news and how radio and TV was made, I wrote to over a dozen Journalists about how I could best make it as a Journalist. (Including one of my media heroes Sir Trevor McDonald). Eventually one of them, Jonathon Ray, then a Newsreader on Central News, replied saying people  won’t take me seriously until your 18 and you’ve been to University but you could try Hospital radio or Community radio. One thing led to another and I started my radio career at the age of 16 after seeing an article in the Nottingham Evening Post for a new community radio station called ‘Crystal FM’. Crystal FM led to a few work experience trips to BBC Radio Nottingham and Century 106fm (Now Heart106) and a clearer vision of what I wanted to do with my life. In 2005 I went to the University of Lincoln to study Journalism where i was presenting two seperate Christian programmes each week, one on the Nottinghamshire based Community radio station Erewash Sound and another for University radio station Siren FM. The networking go my name in with the Christian music industry I interviewed Matt Redman in London and started getting the latest music from top artists to play on my radio show. The networking also involved meeting Mike Rimmer. By chance the country’s most influencial Christian music Journalist was working on a festival radio station in Lincolnshire that i got involved with from 2006 the relationship grew and I moved to Birmingham to work with him after graduating from University in 2008.

The story of my life as a Christian is a lot more concise. I was brought up in a Christian family and have been a Christian all my life. It was when i was 12 that i realised that i had to make the decision to be a Christian for myself. But being brought up in a single parent family, having a brother who lived with Autism and having to cope with many things that teenagers live and learn from such as Bullying, meant that life as a Christian wasn’t easy but, what made it easier was knowing that i could trust God to help me through it all. My brother died from Sudden Adult Death Syndrome in 2008 causing me to be angry with God and confused about life. But still I know what God called me to do all those years ago, I know my brother is in a better place and it’s those things that keep me going and keep me believing today.