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Steve Jenner

Steve Jenner is managing director of Ashbourne Radio. A founding director of High Peak Radio, he has presented the afternoon programme on that station since the station began broadcasting in 2004.

He is media adviser to the Plain English Campaign, which is also based here in Derbyshire. His TV appearances include BBC2, BBC 24, Sky News, ITV Central, CNN and many others in this role and he has taken part in broadcasts on 5Live, Radio 4, and the majority of the local BBC stations throughout the country.

Formerly a champion racing driver, he "enjoys" real ale and food beginning with the letters "ch". Not a good combination for the highly tuned athlete he isn't. Owns a narrow boat just down the road at Kings Bromley.

He presents the station's flagship programme The Morning Show on weekdays, starting at 7am. Recently headed up the team organising the station's expansion into Wirksworth and the Ecclesbourne Valley.

Ben Price

Ben Price is News Editor on Ashbourne Radio and the sister station, High Peak Radio. As such he manages the news team for both stations.

A lifelong Blades fan, he is no stranger to suffering.

He presents Open Air on High Peak Radio between 10am and 1pm weekdays, and Football Fantime on Wednesday evenings.

Leighton Morris

Leighton Morris has been waking up "High Peakers" since the first day of broadcast in April 2004. His bright and cheerful weekday Breakfast show is the station’s "flagship" programme, generating an enormous number of calls to the station every day. He also presents the Friday evening show on Ashbourne Radio.

Leighton loves to get out and about and can be often seen at outside broadcasts; he particularly loves the Christmas lights switch-ons.

He is the station's Head of Music and Presentation. He previously worked for Radio Mansfield and Century 106 where has was known as "the buzzard". He was one of the presenters who worked on the Radio Buxton broadcasts during the previous century, which led to the formation of High Peak Radio. He leaps out of bed at 4 o'clock each morning - and twice a week asks himself why, as he has weekends off.

He loves America, and visits the country whenever he can. His ambition is "one day" to work in radio across the Atlantic. But hopefully not for a while yet!

Holly Knebel

Holly is an experienced news journalist and one of our top newsreaders. She produces and reads news bulletins for both High Peak Radio and Ashbourne Radio.

Helen Mason

Helen Mason is one of the original presenters on High Peak Radio. She presents Drive and Late Drive, weekdays on that station. 

She also works as an independent voice-over artist and is the female voice on a number of commercials heard all over the UK.

She hosts the weekday Afternoon Show, 1pm - 4pm on Ashbourne Radio.

Chris Carnegy

Chris Carnegy is one of commercial radio’s pioneers and is the founding director of Sony Award-winning Spire FM in Salisbury. It remains one of the most profitable small commercial radio stations in the UK.

He is one of the founders of Express FM, the community radio station in Portsmouth. He was also a director of High Peak Radio Ltd and currently has broadcast commitments with the BBC.

He is the host of Lovetown, the show which features some of the best love songs in the world, to bring the day to a gentle close.

This show is also featured on High Peak Radio at the same time, 10pm - midnight, 5 nights per week.

Roger Price

Roger Price is the Company Secretary and Technical Director for High Peak Radio. He occasionally presents shows on the station, particularly over Christmas when he actually gets to work with Santa, and also sometimes reads the news along with hosting his own show on Sunday afternoons on Ashbourne Radio.

Formerly a founding director of Stratford-on-Avon station The Bear, he has worked on and with various radio stations throughout the UK and has recently done important development work with the RadioCentre.

He was responsible for finding a way of solving the problem of how to broadcast right the way across the High Peak on FM, and it is largely down to him that this is now the case. He still maintains the broadcasting structure of the station and produced the technical set-up for Ashbourne Radio, and the subsequent expansion into Wirksworth on 101.8FM. 

(Romantic though this may sound, what it actually means is spending a lot of your time in the mud in Wellington boots.) Roger may only be heard occasionally on the radio but his influence in terms of how the station sounds and the fact that it can be heard at all is everywhere.

John Dolby

Sales Manager. John was formerly weekday night-time presenter on High Peak Radio. He has a long history of professional broadcasting in the East Midlands stretching back into the nineties. He was the licensee of the Ilkeston-based special event broadcaster, Fair FM.

He runs his own production studio, and is the author of a leading training manual for prospective radio presenters.

John is responsible for all Ashbourne Radio local advertising, sponsorship and promotional sales and for liasing with our valued clients. He presents The Dales Drive, 4pm - 7pm, every weekday and as a lifelong soul music aficionado he also presents the Soul Show on Saturday at 6pm.

Helen Dennison

Ashbourne's Helen Dennison joins the team via our "search for a local radio star" campaign.

She can be heard throughout the day as our weather and local features presenter, including The Dales Diary.

She also presents some holiday weekend afternoon shows.

She’s a keen horse rider and unlike some around here, enjoys a trip to the gym.

Phil Platts

Phil joined Ashbourne Radio at the start, having quit the world of commerce to do what he describes as “more worthy causes”. He is a graduate of GMR’s broadcast course and has also appeared on local and national radio in connection with work he did for the National Lottery.

He now presents The Big Easy, 9pm on Sunday night, with 3 hours of easy-on-the-ear music to soothe you into the early hours of Monday morning, including his special Just For You slot. Phil also contributes to our What A Performance features and helps with other shows.

Dave Taylor

Dave is well known amongst the musical fraternity in and around Ashbourne. He has spent time as a singer, music promoter, and local live DJ.

Dave presents his own show 10pm Saturday with top tunes for an Ashbourne Saturday night.

Heather Cairney

Almost scarily enthusiastic for her native Ashbourne, Heather is news journalist with special responsibility for Ashbourne.

She is a big fan of the Shrovetide football and covered the premiere of the film about this when it was shown in Ashbourne. She presents The Weekend Wake-Up on Sunday mornings.

She lives in Ashbourne.

Dave Rider

David Rider hails from Swadlincote where he can "just about get Ashbourne Radio." A PR and marketing consultant, he cut his broadcasting teeth in University radio before going out on the road as a live DJ working for a couple of characters known politely as the Brothers Jenner.

He's worked on a number of stations across the East Midlands on a freelance basis and has done some work for BBC Radio Derby.

David presents the Saturday Sports Show on Ashbourne Radio from 2 - 6pm on Saturday afternoons.

He's a sports fanatic and he also presents the sports bulletins on Sundays.

Paul Jenner

Paul is Manager and Sales Director at High Peak Radio. He is one of the founding directors of the station.

He has worked on over a dozen stations throughout the Midlands and North West and presents the Saturday breakfast show on High Peak Radio.

Despite all this, he's still managing to find time to host the Sunday evening Weekend Wind-down from 6pm until 9pm on Ashbourne Radio.

Craig Pattison

Craig Pattison is one of the most recognisable voices on commercial radio in Derbyshire. A very busy presenter on High Peak Radio, you'll find him presenting cover shifts on Ashbourne Radio. You may also hear his voice on a number of TV commercials as he is very much in demand for voice-over work.