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Celebrating UK Radio in a day! – Tuesday 14th October 2014

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One Day Is Enough! Is it?

Right now outside the Lowry there is no sign of Challenge Radio ever being there. We’ve had a blast over the last few days and would like to thank everyone who helped make an idea (a long time ago) a reality. Congratulations to all our DAB Digital Radio winners, hopefully even without Challenge Radio being […]

Greg James: “I always wanted to do drive”

We caught up with Greg James to ask him about his personal radio highlights, and his ‘radio-nerd’ excitement of getting to play Popmaster with Ken Bruce!

Joel Ross

Joel Ross: “If you don’t get binned more than once, you’re no good”

Joel Ross (one half of Heart Breakfast in the North West) tells us how he got involved in Challenge Radio, the different types of radio he listens to and how the highlight of his career was moving back to the North West! Joel also reveals the most challenging part of his career: a press release […]

WATCH: The Best Bits from Challenge Radio

So much happened in just a small window of 12 hours for Challenge Radio. Here are our favourite bits in just 60 seconds! Video produced by students from the University of Salford.

LISTEN: 12 hours of broadcasting complete!

It all started 12 hours ago with Vicki Blight, Adele Roberts and Jordan North. Since then we’ve had 9 other shows, featuring 19 presenters from across the BBC and commercial industry. Did you miss any of it? Have a listen to some of our favourite bits! Thank you for listening, perhaps we’ll be back next […]

Anneka Rice: ‘I’m almost the godmother to Adam Catterall’s child’

Anneka and Adam talk about their blossoming friendship thanks to Challenge Radio.  

Raj and Pablo: ‘Britain has the best radio stations’

Raj & Pablo talk Radio Festival & more with us outside our Challenge Radio dome!  

Anneka talks Michael Ball in pants

Anneka and Adam talk about which musical star they would envision nearly nude if they had any choice.

Ken Greg and Anneka

Greg James does 3 in 10 with Ken Bruce

Greg James knows about one popstar more than any other. And Ken Bruce tests him on that.

Vicki Blight: ‘I thought Ken Bruce was going to steal my bacon butty’

We caught up with Vicki Blight after her stint in the dome. Vicki speaks about her expectations of Challenge Radio and what it was like presenting before Ken Bruce.  

Today in Photos

We know you’d love to see what’s been going on here at Challenge Radio. So we’ve created a photo gallery full of photos that we’ve taken throughout the day. Go To Gallery

Jordan North: “It’s OK to be an anorak”!

We caught up with Jordan North after he came off air with Vicki Blight and Adele Roberts this morning. He tells us how he got invited to be part of Challenge Radio and that is’s “OK to be an anorak!”

Win a DAB Radio

How would you fancy winning a brand new DAB Digital Radio? Throughout the day here on Challenge Radio are giving away have a stack of DAB Radios. Keep an eye on our Twitter account and listen from midday to find out more details about how to win. Terms and Conditions

Watch our dome being built

A team of engineers have been working very hard behind the scenes to set up our studio, you can watch what happened on day one below.

Welcome to Challenge Radio

Challenge Radio launches tomorrow morning at 8am. Adele, Vicki and Jordan will kick of proceedings live from the Challenge Radio Dome just outside The Lowry, followed by the lovely Ken Bruce. Ken visited the studio this evening to test things out and he’s really looking forward to broadcasting his BBC Radio 2 live from our […]

Adele Roberts, Vicki Blight and Jordan North

And the launch of Challenge Radio is here! Based outside The Lowry in Salford, Adele, Vicki & Jordan aim to wake you up wherever you are!

Ken Bruce

Ken Bruce

Ken Bruce has been broadcasting on the BBC for some years, although the suggestion that he was the first person to announce the retreat of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army from Derby is untrue… He was educated at, or at least attended, Hutchesons’ Boys’ Grammar School in Glasgow, where his achievements included being named “Laziest Boy […]

Emma Jones

Emma Jones

Emma’s flair for radio truly began when she joined Nottingham Trent University’s student radio station Fly FM. Within 6 months she had already been successfully elected as Deputy Station Manager, making her an integral part of the team which guided the station to 5 Gold Student Radio Award wins – their most successful year to […]

Glen Scott

Glen Scott

Glen Scott is a 22-year-old Multi-Award Winning Radio Broadcaster. Having always loved radio, it wasn’t until he joined his student radio station, Pure FM, that he realised presenting was exactly where he wanted to be. In his second year of University whilst studying for his degree in Television and Broadcasting, Glen picked up the award […]

Ben Burrel

Ben Burrell

Ben Burrell is a presenter who currently fronts weekday drive on the Free Radio Network in Coventry & Warwickshire. Ben’s love for radio started at Pure FM at the University of Portsmouth, winning the first ever ‘Demo Idol’ at the National Student Radio Conference. After this, Ben stayed on the south coast presenting on The Breeze, […]

Joel Ross

Joel Ross

Joel joined Heart North West in May this year to host the stations breakfast show with Lorna Bancroft. He’s best known for his work with co-host Jason King – thus becoming the multi-Sony Award winning duo JK & Joel. The pair presented shows on Viking Fm, Key 103, BBC Radio One and more. Since their […]

Jane Garvey

I was born in Liverpool in 1964. Early ambition was to be a bus conductress, but then I discovered radio. My inspirations were Janice Long on Radio Merseyside’s youth show Street Life, and Ray Moore on Radio 2. I went to Birmingham University, did an English degree, and confidently expected the BBC to get in […]

Fi Glover

Fi Glover

Fi Glover is a multi-award winning broadcaster, writer and voice over artist. She was described in the Guardian as ‘gifted’ and ‘disproportionately likeable’. Fi has won a Sony Gold and a Sony Silver for Saturday Live, and a Sony Silver Award for Broadcasting House (both on Radio 4), as well as a Bronze Award for […]

Bex Lindsay

Bex is currently a presenter for Fun Kids. She cut her teeth in Northumberland, presenting and producing the breakfast show on Tynedale FM. At the same time, she also worked for Newcastle-based radio station Tyneside Radio. However, in 2011 Bex moved down to the capital and started presenting on Shoreditch Radio, as well as working […]

Pablo Sat-Bhambra

Born and raised in London Pablo, along with Raj, has become a pioneer of Bollywood in the UK. Loving Bollywood from a young age, and enjoying the escapism and beauty of the on screen stars, they have created a brand that is intrinsically Bollywood. Brought together by a play written by Eastenders star, Nina Wadia, […]

Raj Dhanda

Born and raised in Glasgow Raj, along with Pablo, has become a pioneer of Bollywood in the UK. Loving Bollywood from a young age, and enjoying the escapism and beauty of the on screen stars, they have created a brand that is intrinsically Bollywood. Brought together by a play written by Eastenders star, Nina Wadia, […]

Chris Warburton

Chris Warburton

Chris Warburton presents Saturday Edition on 5 live. After qualifying as a journalist, Chris worked as a producer, reporter and presenter for the BBC in Cambridge. Next, he moved into national radio, working for BBC Radio 5 Live as a producer and reporter. And before you ask… No, he’s nothing to do with the bread […]

Max Rushden

Max Rushden

Max has presented shows on 5 Live, BBC London, BBC Cambridgeshire and Talksport. He has also presented The Guardian’s Football Weekly podcast.

Adam Catterall

Adam Catterall

Former Gatecrasher resident DJ Adam Catterall began his radio career in 2005 at Lancashire’s Rock FM. After a highly successful 18 months on 2 different time slots Adam was appointed the stations new breakfast presenter – a position which he kept for 3 and a half years. In this time he won several awards including […]

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