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In 2001, he was awarded the Country Music Association's International Country Broadcaster Award for his work on promoting country music in the UK.
In 2010 he was nominated for Best Music Entertainment Producer, in the Radio Production Awards, for R.E.S.P.E.C.T., the Art of Backing Vocals.
Nick Barraclough is also the founder of the radio production company, Smooth Operations, which produced his long running show, as well as that of Radio 2 colleague Mike Harding and other programmes for the Radio 2 network.
Nick now lives in Cambridge, with wife Judy and two children. His musical ventures continue with Telephone Bill & the Smooth Operators, the Della Portas, the Light Blues Band and the baritone, Charbel Mattar. He is also writing a novel based on the life of the artist Wesley West.
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