Age
21 (in Cat years)
What do you do?
I work at the University - I manage the Library service for the School of Nursing & Midwifery, which takes me from Dundee to Perth, Stracathro and Kirkcaldy. I work just down the corridor from Kevin C, and I'm just a few minutes walk from the Studios!
Involvement with hospital radio
As well as Treasurer I also present the Friday Request Show with Gina D, and I do the odd football commentary (and the word "odd" is well-chosen, as anyone who's ever listened to one will testify!) and sometimes the Saturday Sports "anchor" in the studio. I came up through the ranks having been a request collector and a P.A. for Malcolm Logie. I joined the station in 1994, if I recall correctly...
Favourite music
Well, everybody says "oh, all sorts of things..." when you ask them that, but I genuinely do have a taste for a great breadth of music. But if you really want to know, here's a list of the people whose music appears on the soundtrack to my life; Kraftwerk, Al Green, The Blue Nile, early Motown, Roy Orbison, Orbital, The Beach Boys, Yello, Underworld, Joy Division, Patsy Cline, The Who, Frank Sinatra, Eighties Synthpop, Detroit Techno, German Trance and Jamaican Dub. Now you're wishing you'd never asked, aren't you?
Favourite things
My wife Denise, Manchester City FC, Thai Food, Comedy Shows (Harry Hill / Dad’s Army / Peter Cook & Dudley Moore / anything with Chris Morris), Gangster Movies, The Highlands, Shopping, Cycling round Tentsmuir Forest, full request sheets and Uma Thurman.
What does hospital radio mean to you?
It doesn't mean very much unless it means something to the patients! Whilst it’s great to be involved in the studio side of things I remember my time as a request collector and the joy of hearing a patient tell me how much he/she enjoyed hearing the request we played for them the week before. When you're surrounded by equipment and people in the studios in an evening it’s hard to imagine the impact you are having on those listening in the wards. I hope we don’t forget that. I’d like to think that we really do make a difference.
Funniest thing ever happened to you while involved in hospital radio?
Spending 25 minutes with a patient in the day room on Ward 4 while he ran through his repertoire of Frank Sinatra songs. When he started on Tom Jones numbers the nurses told him he’d really have to get back into bed because his wife had arrived!
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