The Team

Leighton MorrisLeighton 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 and 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!	Jill McKenzieJill McKenzie joined the team early in 2007 as Head of News having previously worked as News Journalist on highly successful seaside commercial station Yorkshire Coast Radio. She is responsible for editing the local news stories you hear and is very busy as she manages to do this as well as present 'Open Air', High Peak Radio’s magazine programme, from 10am until 1pm each weekday. She enjoys acting - which is rather worrying for a serious news journalist! and is famous for her various cat and dog diaries and notebooks. She is a ‘cat person’ and her computer will sing you song about a Llama, if you ask it to. She has interviewed hundreds of High Peak people on air and really enjoys the 'localness' of High Peak Radio and the good relationships we have with our listeners. She is the most capable multi-tasker we have on the station and has been seen interviewing a guest by telephone whilst preparing her show and eating a bowl of breakfast cereal at the same time as drying her hair. Which is impressive.	Steve JennerSteve Jenner is a founding director of the station and along with brother Paul masterminded the trial broadcasts which started in 1999 and the putting together of the company High Peak Radio Ltd. He has presented the weekday afternoon programme from 1 until 4pm since the station began in April 2004. He read the opening message on the station and formerly presented the Saturday afternoon sports programme, which is now presented by Mark Atherton and Norman Taylor. He commentated on the first football outside broadcast the station presented, from the Silverlands. He also works for the Plain English Campaign in New Mills as a media consultant and as such has appeared on most BBC local stations up and down the country as well as BBC Radio 4 and 5 and counts BBC 2, ITV, BBC 24, Sky News and CNN amongst his screen credits. As well as presenting the afternoon programme on High Peak Radio, he presents the weekday breakfast show on Ashbourne Radio. He likes really dangerous real ale – you know, the black stuff with a weird name and lumps in it, chips and gravy, reads more than is normal for any human being, is stuffed full of useless information about obscure and ancient hit records, has the loudest mobile phone in the world and wastes huge amounts of staff time asking people to help him find his glasses. Has an ambition to present a programme live from on board his narrowboat from Whaley Bridge basin,or maybe Bugsworth.	Helen MasonHelen Mason is another presenter who has been with the station since it began broadcasting in April 2004. She, too, was one of the main presenters on the trial broadcast going back to 1999. She presents Drive – and late Drive – from 4pm until 9pm every weekday and works hard to bring the news of what is happening on the roads to our listeners at one of the busiest times of day. A home grown talent, she has been a DJ for most of her working life, having run a successful Buxton based disco roadshow for a number of years until hanging up the double decks for a life in the radio studio. Another cat person, she'd actually like to be one given the choice. Either that or Jennifer Aniston, for some reason. Another presenter with acting skills, she also teaches media students at University level. She is generally regarded as one of the finest 'voices' on the station and it will probably come as no surprise to hear that she is a highly successful voiceover artist in her own right, her voice turning up on a number of adverts heard across the rest of the country. She divides the rest of her time between thinking of ever more demanding '5:15 connections' and trying to domesticate the rest of the staff.	Chris CarnegyChris Carnegy is the presenter of High Peak Radio's night time secret weapon Lovetown. This mix of Chris's soothing tones and the best love songs in the world means the show is hugely popular, errrm….nocturnal entertainment. A non executive director of High Peak Radio, Chris has a number of UK broadcast interests and is the founding director of Sony Award winning Spire FM in Salisbury. He has also worked for the BBC's World Service. He also presents on Ashbourne Radio. Already an accomplished yachtsman, he's now learning how to fly. Given the fact that he recently blew his car engine by forgetting to put any engine oil in it, ever, we’re all learning how to duck.
Ben PriceBen Price Price joined the High Peak Radio team in 2007 as News Journalist. Along with Jill he reads and prepares many of the local news stories you'll hear and conducts many of our interviews. He also presents programmes on High Peak Radio, stepping in to present Open Air when Jill has assignments to cover and presenting his own show, the extremely successful 'Football Fantime', on Wednesday evenings at 7pm. This interactive show uses e mail and phone calls plus live in studio guests and is rapidly becoming the High Peak's main football forum. He recently took over from Steve as the lead commentator on local football outside broadcasts. A rabid Sheffield United supporter, he has suffered much in recent times and is never allowed to forget it. He actually owns a season ticket, which we feel proves that The Price Isn’t Always Right.	Paul JennerPaul Jenner is a founding director of High Peak Radio. As Sales Director, he has the daunting task of making sure we sell enough advertising to keep operating profitably a feat he's managed from day one. The day to day manager of the station, he also somehow finds time to present the Saturday morning Weekend Wake Up. He is related by marriage to Steve. They both share the same parents. One of the station's biggest hits is his 'Shopper’s Sweep' competition, where callers to the station try to work out the price of a bag of shopping. It's always fun watching Paul solemnly declaring he's got balls for birds to give away. He has worked on a number of stations throughout the Midlands and the North West since 1993 and was, along with Steve, the brains behind the trial radio services in the High Peak which started in 1999 and the making of High Peak Radio Ltd. Previously a 'live' disc jockey by trade, he is one of very few disco DJs to successfully make the transition from live gig to studio and one of very, very few to actually manage a radio station. Despite an enthusiasm for fine food and drink Paul refuses to give in and his repeated health kicks, running regimes, half day diets and occasional ill advised football comebacks are the stuff of legend. He can often be seen at the Silverlands on a Saturday afternoon, shouting a variety of non PC pieces of advice to visiting referees.	Mark AthertonMark Atherton is one of the most travelled and experienced radio presenters in the Midlands. As well as once running his own station in his native Chesterfield, he has presented on Loughborough's Oak FM and Burton's Touch (then Centre FM) amongst others. He now presents the Saturday afternoon sport programme along with the legendary Norman Taylor and has much to do juggling Norman’s reports 'from somewhere cold and wet in the High Peak' along with the premiership reports, local results and reports, interviews and music. A vegetarian, which he seems to take to mean someone who likes biscuits and crisps, Mark provides short notice cover on a variety of our programmes beside his own. A sort of 'Batman' of the radio presenting world.	Norman TaylorNorman Taylor is, simply, a legend. An ex footplateman on steam engines in the High Peak, young Norman went on to set up the Buxton Running Club, coach numerous local athletes to international standard, became sports reporter on the Matlock Mercury and is now the undisputed 'Voice of Sport' on High Peak Radio. Every week, Norman will visit a variety of places throughout the High Peak to interview guests and every Saturday he can be found in a muddy field somewhere in the High Peak, celebrating the triumph, heroism and comedy of local sporting life. Being interviewed by Norman is like nothing else on the radio. Anywhere. He manages to combine knowledge of his subject with massive enthusiasm and a strong sense of the ridiculous which we would like to assure you is intentional. We think. Norman is a committed none driver and travels to most of the venues he visits by bus. He has been known to edit the interviews on the bus afterwards on his recorder. Yes, we know this looks a little odd but could we make a public plea for bus companies not to throw him off before he reaches his destination?	Paul TaylorPaul Taylor is no more related to Norman Taylor than Ben Price is to Roger Price. We just like to have the same second names to keep people guessing. Paul Taylor presents the High Peak Party, 6pm until midnight on Saturday. He has a variety of broadcast interests in various parts of the country and was a member of the technical team helping Roger Price set up the station. He also provided all the technical support for the trial broadcasts in the High Peak and has been working in local radio since the early 1990's. He is the person who climbed up onto the roof of the Eagle flats in Buxton in late 1999 to fix the transmitter aerial. We expect he'll open his eyes soon. He is usually accompanied by a Scotty dog type dog, and is a dog person. He writes and produces the Christmas pantomime we somehow find ourselves starring in each year, along with Helen Mason.
Barry JarvisBarry Jarvis presents the Sunday Weekend Wake up from 7am until midday. He combines his role as cheerleader of the Buxton Ladies football team with presenting the Road to the Roast, where each week he has thousands of listeners interrogating their satnavs. The undisputed champion of the High Peak Radio I've lost more weight than you have league, Barry has worked on various midland radio stations since the early nineties and continues to work as a live DJ in various venues around the Midlands including, bizarrely, a river boat! He runs his own production company, Everest Productions, and owns his own recording studios.	Roger PriceRoger 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. 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.	Craig PattersonCraig Patterson is, along with Mark Atherton, our 'Batman' presenter. He can present virtually every show on the station and sometimes has to do so at short notice! He has his own show on Sunday afternoons at 1pm and also appears at many of our outside broadcast events, either at the venue or in the studio. He used to work as a presenter on Chesterfield's commercial radio station, Peak FM.	Sherri ClarkeSherri "as in the drink" Clarke is sales executive with High Peak Radio. The female foil to Paul's more rugged charms, (and that, Paul, will cost you a fiver) she seems trapped in an extended blonde moment which means her quotes are legendary. Quite possibly the nicest human being you are ever likely to meet, she will believe absolutely anything you tell her and never believes or speaks ill of anyone. Which means loads of fun and no revenge! Fiercely proud of her native Glossop, despite certain cat person type tendencies, she spends a lot of her time worrying about dogs and a lost dog call to the station when she's in the office can lead to her insisting on all programmes being cancelled until the pooch in question is found.	Jon HeathcoteJon Heathcote nicknamed 'the reverend' by all and sundry, Jon presents the overnight show at weekends. Another stalwart of the trial broadcasts, his quips and unusual observations have enlivened many a nocturnal weekend across the High Peak. During the week he works at 'a leading bank' so we all form an orderly queue the wrong side of payday. He can honestly say when it's late at night, he follows Chris Carnegy and Paul Taylor. A worry for all concerned.

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