Broadcaster Trevor Dann joins Greg Butler on the Afternoon Record Club this Thursday (June 13th) at 2pm.
Trevor, who lives locally, has been associated with some of the most influential radio and television programmes of the last 30 years. He won a BAFTA for his work on Live Aid and was in charge of the music policy at Radio 1 in 1995, controversially dropping Status Quo from the playlist.
Will there be any Quo in his vinyl selections when he comes into to the Cambridge 105 studios?
Educated at Nottingham High School and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, Trevor’s radio career began at BBC Radio Nottingham in 1974. He was a producer at BBC Radio 1 from 1979 to 1983, working principally with Noel Edmonds, Tommy Vance, Dave Lee Travis and John Peel as well as developing the 25 Years of Rock series, which later transferred to TV as The Rock ‘n’ Roll Years.
In the 1980s he was a producer on BBC2’s Old Grey Whistle Test for four years and presented his own weekly show for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. In 1988 he was the founding programme director of GLR, the station which launched the radio careers of Chris Evans, Chris Morris and Danny Baker among others.
Between 2002 and 2004 he presented BBC Radio Cambridgeshire’s breakfast show.
Trevor was appointed director of the UK Radio Academy in September 2006. His first book, a biography of Nick Drake called Darker Than The Deepest Sea, was published in the UK in February 2006 by Portrait and in the USA by daCapo. He has written for The Times, The Guardian and The Independent as well as Word magazine, Q magazine, Mojo and the Evening Standard.
He has also been presenting a weekly radio show called It’s Amazing on national DAB station Amazing Radio since January 2010.
