BBC Radio Nottingham - Former Presenters

Former Presenters

• Perhaps the station's most famous presenter is broadcasting legend Dennis McCarthy MBE, who continued broadcasting on the station — despite falling ill — right up until the afternoon he died.
• Simon Mayo began his radio career here where he worked for four years in the 1980s, moving to Radio 1 in March 1986
• Matthew Bannister, former late night host on Radio 5 Live, worked as a reporter in 1978
• Mansfield's Richard Bacon had his first taste of broadcasting on The Beat
• Comedian Boothby Graffoe had a weekly show in the late 1980s for a short time, before it was taken off because of its graphic and saucy humour
• John Simons worked on the station in the late 1980s. He is now the award-winning Group Programme Director for GMG Radio