MIKE GEORGE

'Mike George' is a British DJ. He was born in Harrow, Middlesex.

Contents
Early Career
BBC Career
Current Work

Early Career


Mike spent 10 years in the navy before discovering Hospital Radio. His first professional radio job was in Portsmouth.
Mike joined Radio Wyvern (now Wyvern FM) in Worcester, when the station opened in 1982 as the weekday drivetime presenter and later breakfast show presenter
He left the station in 1987 & joined Cardiff's Red Dragon FM as a presenter of their Breakfast show and was also heard on Touch AM. He remained here until early 1992.

BBC Career


In early 1992 Mike came back to the Worcester area & joined BBC Hereford & Worcester, taking over the weekday mid-morning show from 10am-1pm.
In late 1996 he took over the weekday Breakfast show. A role he would remain on until retiring from the slot in April 2005.

Current Work


Mike can still be heard on BBC Hereford & Worcester, presenting a Saturday morning gardening programme between 9 & 11am, a role he started in January 2005, just before retiring from the Breakfast show. Here, Mike is joined by local gardening expert Reg Moule.
In addition to that, since May 2005 Mike presents a Sunday afternoon music show from 3-6pm, where he plays tunes from the 60's up to the present day. Regular features on the show include, Snippets of Songs, where listeners have to identify tunes from their introductions, Lyric Lines, where you have to identify a tune from the lyrics & ''First Worst & Best'' where Mike plays a listeners first, worst & best record from their collection. His Sunday show can be heard on BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Radio Stoke.
He also covers various presenters on BBC Hereford & Worcester BBC Radio Gloucestershire & BBC Radio Shropshire.

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