Earlier this month, the Audio Radio Industry Awards were held at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane and Peter Rush from Bishop FM and Aycliffe Radio attended the event.
He was nominated in the Grass Roots category for the work that the Community Radio Environment Network (CREN), a collection of many community radio stations from around the UK, did in ‘Our Earth Week’ last November.
Joining him on the night were Penny Southgate from BCFM in Bristol, who is CREN’s organiser and Xan Phillips who is station manager at Voice FM in Southampton.
They faced stiff opposition from podcasts and other great audio content and lost out to the eventual worthy winner Three Ways to save a life from BBC Radio Manchester, with coverage on how lessons have been learned from the response to the Manchester Areana bombings.
Peter said: “It was a great honour to meet everyone at the Theatre Royal. I look forward to working with all the stations within the newly formed Community Radio Environment Network going forward.
“The highlight for me, however, was an unexpected handshake for the legendary Ken Bruce – I did catch him by surprise but it was great to have a brief word with him.
“I also said hello to Romash Ranganathan who co-hosed the evening with Alice Levine and got a ‘how you doing’ back, but he was on his way to the stage at the time and he had to practice his autocue!”
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