Brighter Breakfast
A Brighter Start To 2012
Happy New Year for 2012 to each and every one of you! It’s been so much fun bringing the news, sport, shobiz gossip, quizzes and hits up and down the decades throughout the year. It’s also been lovely to receive so many nice messages during the shows too. It’s so very much appreciated. So, what’s in store for 2012? A later start for one thing. From next week, the Brighter Breakfast will be starting at 7am, which will be a godsend, an extra hour in the land of nod for my creaking bones! There will be no let up in...
read moreA Brighter Way To Get Back In The Swing Of Things
Phew! It turns out reports of my demise, at least according to my doctors, have been exaggerated. It’s been a long month or so away from the Brighter Breakfast hotseat. That being said, it’s the show that’s the important thing, not the presenter, and Ros and Danny have certainly been at their admirable best in providing Basildon and East Thurrock with the very latest in local news and travel, entertainment and music, the staple diet of any breakfast show. Just goes to show I’m not actually needed! Needed is one...
read moreBreakfasts Are Getting Brighter (Though Sleep Is Becoming Scarce)
How the devil are you? Having been accustomed to working night shifts, I thought it would be, well, not exactly easy, but nothing too much to getting up in the middle of the night, preparing and then presenting the Brighter Breakfast. It isn’t though. Every sinew, every muscle, screams at me “look, it’s the middle of the night, you should be sleeping!” when the alarm goes off. Bleary eyed and semi conscious, it’s not a pretty sight! The biggest problem I have is following Brian on the Brighter Breakfast. What a great show he...
read moreDigital TV Switchover
About Gateway 97.8
Gateway 97.8 is the local community radio station for the Basildon and East Thurrock areas of South Essex, providing news, sport and information to the local population. 