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Mark Forrest (radio presenter)

Mark Forrest is a British radio presenter and newsreader.

Education

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Forrest grew up in Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire and in Wetherby in West Yorkshire. He attended a school in Leeds, and then studied mathematics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.[1]

Career

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Forrest began his radio career at Radio Tees.[2] He then presented a show on Metro Radio in Newcastle upon Tyne between 2am and 6am, and he was also an undergraduate student at the time.[3]

After leaving Metro Radio, Forrest worked at Virgin Radio in the UK.[4]

In 1995, Forrest was presenting a show between 10pm and 2am on weekdays on Virgin Radio in the UK.[5] In 1998, Forrest was presenting a show between 4pm and 7pm on weekdays[6], and a show between 9am and 12am on Saturdays, on Virgin Radio in the UK.[7]

In 1999 and possibly later, Forrest presented Virgin Radio's twice-weekly movie review show, the Movie Chart Show, alongside Gail Porter.[8] The show was broadcast on Channel 5.[9]

After having worked at Virgin Radio in the UK and at Heart Radio, Forrest joined Classic FM to present a Saturday morning show with co-presenters Anne Marie-Minhall and Tim Lihoreau.[10] Forrest was presenting the station's weekday drivetime show, a Friday evening musician interview and arts news programme on the station, and the station's Saturday breakfast show, in 2006.[11] Forrest finished presenting the drivetime show on the station in 2010. Forrest also presented the weekday breakfast show on the station from 2010 until 2012[12], when Tim Lihoreau took over presenting the show.[13] Forrest's affection for classical music originated from his father, who had a large collection of classical music albums.[3]

Forrest presented the breakfast show on BBC Radio York in 2012. He then moved to presenting an evening show between 7pm and 10pm across England and the Channel Islands on BBC Local Radio. All BBC Local Radio stations broadcast the show except in the case of local sports coverage or local breaking news coverage.[12] The show collated the best of BBC Local Radio broadcasting from the day[14] and also included detailed weather information, contributions from listeners and other content. In 2015, Georgey Spanswick took over the Friday edition of the England-wide and Channel Islands-wide show. In 2017, Forrest left the England-wide and Channel Islands-wide show and Spanswick began presenting the show on all weekdays.

He presented a Sunday morning show between 9am and midday on BBC Radio York, starting in September 2012[15] and finishing in May 2013. The show focussed on topics relating to the outdoors.[16]

In January 2019, Forrest was announced as one of the presenters on the then upcoming radio station Scala Radio (which is now known as Magic Classical).[17] Forrest began presenting the weekday drivetime show on the station from the point of the station's launch in March 2019. He presented the show from his home studio, which was in his farm in the Yorkshire Dales; he worked as a farmer for some of the rest of the day.[18] The station broadcast on DAB from the point of launch.[19] Forrest moved to a Monday-Thursday evening slot from a weekday morning slot in 2023.[20] In 2024, he left Scala Radio, as the station stopped broadcasting presenter-led programming after 1pm on weekdays.[21]

Forrest joined BBC Radio 4 as a newsreader, news presenter and continuity announcer in the latter half of the 2010s. He presents the Six O'Clock News, Midnight News, Ten O'Clock News, One O'Clock News and Shipping Forecast on the station, in addition to presenting shorter news bulletins and providing continuity between programmes. He also reads news bulletins on BBC Radio 3.

In 2024, he began to present programmes on BBC Radio 3. He is one of the presenters of Radio 3 in Concert[22] and of BBC Radio 3's Breakfast.[23] This means he has been a presenter at all three UK-wide classical music radio stations.

Forrest has covered weekend programmes on Smooth Radio in the UK.[24] He has sat in for Stephen Nolan on BBC Radio 5 Live.[25]

Personal life

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In addition to his work in the media, Forrest is a sheep farmer.[26]

  1. ^ "PRESS PACK - 'Mark Forrest' - BBC All-Local Radio Evening Programme - Launches 7 January 2013" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 November 2024. Retrieved 17 November 2024. {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
  2. ^ Mark Forrest - Radio Greats. 2023-09-01. Retrieved 2024-11-17 – via www.buzzsprout.com.
  3. ^ a b "Mark Forrest - the Scala Radio DJ broadcasts from his Dales farm". Great British Life. 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  4. ^ "PressReader.com - Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  5. ^ "The Television & Radio Database - Listings for Thursday, 9th November 1995". tvrdb.com. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  6. ^ "Results for '"richard porter"' | Between 1st Jan 1950 and 31st Dec 1999 | Daily Mirror | Publication | British Newspaper Archive". British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 17 November 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Results for '"mark forrest"' | Between 1st Jan 1950 and 31st Dec 1999 | Daily Mirror | Publication | British Newspaper Archive". British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 17 November 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ "Virgin clinches Blockbuster sponsorship". www.campaignlive.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  9. ^ 1999-01-22T00:00:00. "PORTER TO PRESENT CHANNEL 5 MOVIE CHART SHOW". Broadcast. Retrieved 2024-11-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Plunkett, John (2002-07-29). "Derham and Fry hit right note with Classic FM". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  11. ^ "Gramophone - February 2006". reader.exacteditions.com. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  12. ^ a b "Mark Forrest to present BBC all-Local Radio Evening programme". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  13. ^ "Breakfast schedule changes at Classic FM". RadioToday. 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  14. ^ "BBC Local Radio - Mark Forrest - Episode guide". BBC. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  15. ^ "BBC Radio York - Mark Forrest - Episode guide". BBC. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  16. ^ "BBC Radio York - Mark Forrest, 19/05/2013". BBC. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  17. ^ "Bauer to launch classical station Scala Radio". RadioToday. 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  18. ^ Greenway, Tony (2019-04-28). "Mark Forrest - the Scala Radio DJ broadcasts from his Dales farm". Great British Life. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  19. ^ Martin, Roy (2019-03-04). "Simon Mayo launches Scala Radio on DAB digital radio". RadioToday. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  20. ^ "All change at Scala Radio as Penny Smith moves to mornings". RadioToday. 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  21. ^ Martin, Roy (2024-02-22). "Mark Forrest, Mark Kermode, Luci Holland, Richard Allinson and Sam Hughes to leave Scala Radio". RadioToday. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  22. ^ "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. 2024-06-27. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  23. ^ "BBC Radio 3 - Breakfast, Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way with Mark Forrest". BBC. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  24. ^ "Breakfast schedule changes at Classic FM". RadioToday. 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  25. ^ "BBC Radio 5 Live - Stephen Nolan, 27/12/2009". BBC. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
  26. ^ Forrest, Mark. "Mark Forrest (@ForrestMark) / X". X. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
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