Wednesday 15 July 2009
Student radio star is new voice of BBC Radio 1
Nottingham Trent University’s student radio station manager and future Students’ Union president, David Walker, has been chosen as the new voice of BBC Radio 1.
David, who will soon graduate from a multimedia degree at the University, initially entered a competition to be the voice of the Student Radio Awards ceremony and, although he narrowly missed out with second place, he was approached by a judge who works for Radio 1.
David said: “He asked me if I’d like to try out to be the new station voice of Radio 1, so a few months later I had an audition and thankfully was successful. I’m now the male voice for all their daytime production and I’ve been to the studios to record it all, so when you hear snippets such as ‘This is Radio 1’, it’s me!”
As current manager of Nottingham Trent University’s student radio station, Fly FM, which scooped five awards at last year’s National Student Radio Awards, David is already very familiar with the broadcast world.
He added: “I would like a career in broadcast and this is a great start for me. From September I’m the Students’ Union president for a year and then who knows what’s next.”
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