Early works

OK, I'll do it myself. Tim Lihoreau, creative director and weekend presenter, has now emerged as Classic FM's weekday breakfast presenter. (Hat tip to Radio Today). This after the station lost 10% of its audience year-on-year in the last set of figures - and where the trend, in this chart from the excellent Media UK, is clear.

Mark Forrest, whose radio career has encompassed hospital radio on Tyneside, Metro, Virgin, Heart and a few stabs at 5Live's Up All Night, has been dropped, and has already turned up doing cover shifts on Smooth. (Spookily, Global now own both Classic and Smooth, subject to competition hurdles).

Tim is something of a polymath. He read music at Leeds, came to London to do a composition PhD, but dropped out to tinkle the piano in various branches of Pizza Express. He joined Jazz FM when it started, and then transferred to Classic on the production side. He's written books, blogs intermittently, and runs three community choirs with his wife from his current base in Cambridgeshire.