Early Life
He was born in Stourbridge, in the West Midlands and educated at The Grange Comprehensive School and King Edward’s VI Form College Stourbridge. He turned down a place to study the Clarinet and Saxophone at the Royal School of Music and in 1983, aged 18, he joined the BBC at Pebble Mill in Birmingham. His first BBC job was as a Trainee Studio Manager, working on radio, TV and Film productions as a Sound Recordist on productions including Howards' Way, Pebble Mill at One, and The Archers where he spent 3 months doing spot Fx and once played Aunt Laura’s dead body wrapped in ¼ inch recording tape.
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