Simon Mayo

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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
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Mayo continues a family line of media workers, as his mother was the manager of a radio studio. He studied history and politics at university. Via Radio Nottingham, he landed a job at Radio 1 in 1986. His popular [[Confessions]] feature, where listeners wrote in to confess to naughty past deeds, was turned into a successful - if controversial - BBC1 format. He has an interest in religion, and has written a book and hosted a series taking a comical look at the world of cults, beliefs and factions.
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Mayo continues a family line of media workers, as his mother was the manager of a radio studio. He studied history and politics at university. Via Radio Nottingham, he landed a job at Radio 1 in 1986. His popular [[Confessions]] feature, where listeners wrote in to confess to naughty past deeds, was turned into a successful - if controversial - BBC1 format. He has an interest in religion, and has written a book and hosted a series taking a comical look at the world of cults, beliefs and factions. In 2010 he moved from his long-running morning show on Five Live to take up the Radio 2 drivetime slot recently vacated by [[Chris Evans]].
== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==

Revision as of 11:04, 12 February 2010

Contents

Shows

Act Your Age

Confessions (devisor and host)

The Movie Game

Popmaster (stand-in)

Scruples

Winning Lines

Biography

Mayo continues a family line of media workers, as his mother was the manager of a radio studio. He studied history and politics at university. Via Radio Nottingham, he landed a job at Radio 1 in 1986. His popular Confessions feature, where listeners wrote in to confess to naughty past deeds, was turned into a successful - if controversial - BBC1 format. He has an interest in religion, and has written a book and hosted a series taking a comical look at the world of cults, beliefs and factions. In 2010 he moved from his long-running morning show on Five Live to take up the Radio 2 drivetime slot recently vacated by Chris Evans.

Trivia

He once worked as a car park attendant before landing his first job in local radio.

Books / Tapes

Bible Dayze

Simon Mayo's Confessions (audio cassette)

Contact

PBJ Management, 7 Soho Street, London W1D 3DQ

Web links

PBJ Management page

IMDb entry

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